Bobby Burkett first registered as a Democrat and stayed that way for 20 years. (1) He may have changed his parties, but he still likes taxing and spending our hard-earned money.

In his interview with Preserve Navarre Live, Bobby opposed property tax cuts. (2) Not only is this not reasonable given the massive increase in property tax revenues over the last 4 years, it is simply not conservative. When homeowners are forced to pay property taxes, what we essentially communicate is that the government owns all property and that we just rent our homes from the government. A real conservative would always stand with homeowners – especially our seniors and veterans – to fight for a reduction in property taxes.

In answering a question to a reporter about whether he supports the sales tax, Bobby took the easy way out and said he wants what the people want. (3) That’s not leadership. How can the people make a reasonable decision about whether to vote on a new sales tax when they don’t really have all the information? Our commissioners and commissioner candidates need to be leaders or else stay home and let someone else do the job.

Burkett also seems to equivocate on everything else – whether to spend more money that he’s not sure the county has or pass along bigger impact fees that he knows will be paid by working families, not the developers who should be paying them – this just isn’t the strong leadership the taxpayers need for Santa Rosa County.(4)

Tax and Spend liberals like Joe Biden are driving inflation up and making everything cost more: gas, groceries, utilities, and basic services like lawncare and the barbershop.

With Joe Biden already in the White House, why would we want someone like Joe Biden on the County Commission?