If you’ve been following Sheriff Eric Flowers’ pathetic public whining about the $7 million budget increase the County Commission is trying to give him, you’ve probably heard him and his amen choir of supporters complain:
“The county can spend $34 million on consultants, but it can’t afford to give our deputies pay raises.”
Flowers’ argument is bogus, of course, because he’s trying to connect dots that can’t be connected – and he’s ignoring the other compelling quality-of-life needs that must be addressed in our growing county…