Jason Ray Gainey

03/12/2024

“Live your life that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip” (Will Rogers).

03/02/2024

We’re coming up on a big primary for our county.

I would encourage each person to vote their conscience.

Pray!
Do research.
Don’t just vote for friends or acquaintances.

Find people who are not afraid to say “NO”, have good business sense and are also kind and helpful.

For Commissioners, more than anything, find a person who understands the difference between our citizen’s vision for the county and county government. The term “county” means both, but they are not both the same thing.

Sometimes the vision of government doesn’t always align with the vision of the people.

When they are in opposition to each other, we need champions for the people but also champions that use wisdom to bring people and government together. We also need champions to keep government as small and frugal as possible.

One thing I’d like to mention as I’ve poured over budgets come the last 10 years, is that this board and the previous board had a plan in place to get us out of debt and it has worked.

This will position us as a county over the next few years for me and others to vote for tax cuts and, if I have my way, work toward a cohesive, county-wide Sports Complex for both young and old.

I’m thankful that many times our commissioners listen to our constituents. Our county manager and chairman, along with other commissioners dig for solutions.

I’m grateful for Richmond County.

Let’s move forward!

09/11/2022

The Queen recognized 911 and so should we!

Queen Elizabeth broke with tradition to show her support for the U.S. after the 9/11 terror attacks. She ordered that "The Star-Spangled Banner" be played during the Changing of the Guards.

09/11/2022

07/21/2022

Dennis Quick has always been a wonderful, knowledgeable man. We support this decision.

We are excited to congratulate Mr. Dennis Quick on being named Richmond County Schools Interim Superintendent! Mr. Quick will be sworn in on August 1st at 9 am. We are excited to have Mr. Quick back on the RCS team!

04/15/2022

Many thanks to Mr. Nicholson and the community at Ashley Chapel who hosted the town hall last night.

At one point the question was raised: “If money was not an issue, what would you do to “fix” our communities!”

My initial response was that money, many times, is NOT the resolution to our problems. Many times the love of money and mismanagement thereof leads to far more problems.

However, there are some things that are within our power and within our budget, if managed properly - with some creative thinkers in our community - including LOCAL, small business ingenuity partnering with our School system leaders, local municipalities and local churches. Here are a two things that we can accomplish:

1. Train families from all of our local churches to be foster parents. As Robby Hall/DSS and I discussed this week, there is a major need for help in this area with kids sleeping in DSS administration facilities because of a lack of foster parents. We can offer HOPE to these kids.

2. Connecting LOCAL small business talent and needs with the vision of RCS and RCC administration, we can and should create a public TRADE high school for the primary purpose of building the Richmond County workforce. Things like welding, plumbing, vehicle maintenance/mechanics, aviation, electrical, masonry, building, sewing, homemaking, budgeting.

I’ll conclude that this debate was held on the Eve of Good Friday - the pivotal moment of the world. As I shared with the fine people in Ashley Chapel, during this week, we remember when hope seemed lost and society seemed to slip over the edge in despair. Yet, in that moment, much like ours, we tend to open ourselves to help from God above.

As I shared this with my friends in Ashley Chapel last night, I’m ever-more reminded that this is the season when we should expect a resurrection of dreams and of communities. There is hope!

04/15/2022

Welcome friend to Elect Jason Gainey for Richmond County Commissioner. I’d like to ask you to share this page, ask our Richmond County friends to like this page and help get the word out.