Cammick’s early impressions of county government

In a question period with Edda Cammick, a Rotary Club audience learned today what moves Oconee’s newest county council member about government. In turn, Cammick was able to pick up some of what’s on the minds of Walhalla Rotarians about their county government. The District One councilwoman is the first of her gender to sit on the county’s policy-making council in more than a generation. And she said, “Guys don’t think I know what I’m doing.” Interviewed later by 96.3/WGOG NEWS, Cammick clarified her comment, saying some men, not all. “Men in politics are a little bit more suave, if I can use that word, they aren’t as contentious, perhaps, and aren’t as straightforward as I am. But I am who I am and I’m not going to change any time soon,” she told us. Cammick said that during her first term everyone, for the most part, has been friendly. She concedes that as a political newcomer she is impatient at how slow the wheels of government turn. In answer to a Rotarian’s question, Cammick addressed how well county employees do their work, in her estimation. She also told Rotarian and Joint Regional Sewer Authority commissioner Lamar Bailes that she’s willing to listen to the JRSA’s gripe that the county has withheld two $610 thousand annual payments. “It could so easily be solved,” Bailes told hern