Jim Burns

Okay.

And, uh, so I was always interested in making sure we put good people in, in positions of authority in the public.

There's, there's, I can tell you, you know, your, your congressmen and your senators, they, they, they work hard for it.

And, and, you know, we, we have some good ones.

Um, and then, but the, where the rubber meets the road, you know, is, is your, your local city councils and your county councils and your school wards and everything, because

You know, nobody gets more upset than if they don't believe their child is getting a quality education, right?

Nobody gets more upset than, you know, with things in your community aren't going bright.

And so that was, it was another area where I thought, you know, we need some leadership.

We need some things where people can believe in the people and the message that they're saying.

And I was just, you know, lucky enough to full, you know,

Fifty one percent of the people for a few elections here to to continue to serve for.

And I think, you know, it is it is a difficult thing.

It is one of the most, you know, I tell people when they say I served 12 years on Greenville County Council and I said I I decided to leave after those three terms because there's only so much so many times you can beat your head against the wall and do it.

And want to come back for more, you know, and I also think, you know, I got to say that theoretically, I think, you know, we should be able to elect the right person as long as we want to and how we do that.

Practically, it doesn't work.

You know, from a theoretical standpoint, I don't like term limits.

From the practicality thing, seeing people that that becomes their identity and they don't know how to live and meet who they are without being that, that's not the right basis of our motivation to be an elected official.

So, but I would encourage everybody, you know, we got to have good people in our local governments too, because we're only as good as those people.

We're only making as good decisions as those people that we put into those offices.

So I look at it as it was just a way to be involved, to be a part of the growth of Greenville and the trajectory.