Which level of government in the United States do you trust the most – municipal, county, state, federal or none?
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“None at all. When it cost you millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands to get elected for a minimal job, the corruption stays with it. With the insider trading and other stuff, they know they’re gonna make that all up. They’re all taking kickbacks from everybody – not all of them, but most of them. They’re also paying off all those people that donated so they could get elected and it goes from Congress all the way down to local commissioners.”
Jeff Heaney
Murphy
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“None. I’ve had different experiences with different levels, and I don’t agree with half of their decisions. One instance was with the Department of Family & Children Services in Georgia. They contacted me to adopt a child. I jumped through all the hoops, and the judge told me I’d have her with me in two weeks. They came and kidnapped her after two and a half years, giving her to someone else because they didn’t do their job. They didn’t do the paperwork in the right order to be able to close the case. Two and a half years later, we’re still fighting to keep her.”
Brenda Little, Murphy
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“I trust the federal government I have now. Not the city, not with what’s going on with the city now. I know that God put (President Donald) Trump in there, and he’s gonna do wonderful things. What we had, in my opinion, was terrible. It hurt my business and a lot of my people’s business. I’m a Christian man, and I see the things going on with Trump. I know biblical terms, and I know why he’s there. Trump was almost assassinated two or three times. That’s just a miracle right there, it wasn’t meant to be.”
Johnny Ray
Murphy
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“None right now, everything’s just so chaotic. Everything is just so questionable, especially after (President Joe) Biden’s administration came out and everything they’ve done. Until everybody starts working together, I don’t think you can trust any of them. Everyone’s just so divided, everybody seems to be more against each other instead of working together.”
Jamie Dockery
Murphy
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“I used to work for the city of Cape Coral, so I saw firsthand a lot of stuff, a lot of issues that city government has. I’m more than sure that higher levels of government have the same thing.”
Sammi Crow
Bellview