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Despite their small size, and federal government could learn a thing or two from rural communities. “In a county with a total population of 48,000, we treat our government differently, because we know our government officials personally. I mean we know them, like sit down next to them in the bar. So we take a very different approach to government. We have a level of access to our lawmakers that somebody in Chicago or Sacramento or Los Angeles cannot begin to fathom. And that close proximity means a different approach to problem solving. “I worked on a program, a few years ago. We needed the help of the State of Nevada to get transportation permits through like 14 Ghana Email List western states. It was a very complicated thing. But I had the Governor’s phone number. And it was Bob Miller at the time. So I called him and said, ‘Hey Bob, can you help me out?’ I don’t know that anybody who lives in Illinois or New York or Massachusetts or Florida or California can even fathom that,” explained Chernock. However, being a small community can have its disadvantages. “We have to build the group big enough to matter. In, in New York you can build a group of consensus pretty easy. Here in the smaller states and in the smaller communities, we tend to not have the luxury. We have to find consensus to be big enough to matter,” said Chernock. “I think there are some things about governing and being governed that have been pushed aside in bigger cities that we still hang on to in the smaller communities.
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