The Charlevoix County Commission seems to feel that county government serves we the commissioners, not we the people, as evidenced by yet another deceitful and discriminatory stance.
"The stigma is that transit is only used by people who are low-income, handicapped and seniors.”… Jill Drury, manager of the Charlevoix County Transit System as quoted in The Petoskey News-Review.
That is perhaps the most unfair, biased, bigoted, defamatory, and discriminatory statement made by a county official in recent memory. The connotation is completely negative and in no way should it be allowed to stand.
The quote by Jill Drury further states: “That's not the case in Charlevoix County. We do a number of students with school of choice. And we have people using it to go back and forth to work, to visit loved ones, and more.”
Implicit in the words of Jill Drury, the manager of Charlevoix County Transit System, a department of county government, is the belief that low-income, handicapped and senior residents use the services of county transit for purposes other than going to work, school or vocational training, socializing, shopping, or other “normal” types of trips. It also implies that they are somehow not as worthy of the services of Charlevoix County government.
Jill Drury has been shown to be to be insulting, degrading and bigoted, but the ultimate responsibility for such abuse must fall upon the Charlevoix County Commissioners, individually and collectively. For any county commissioner to disregard the reprehensible words of Jill Drury would only exacerbate the situation and further expose Charlevoix County to legal action.
It is therefore imperative that the Charlevoix County Board of Commissioners take immediate action to condemn such abhorrent behavior by terminating Jill Drury and the entire Charlevoix County Transit Oversight Board.
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