Submitted by The City Unfiltered on Thu, 2008-04-03 11:58. ::

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Last year during the city election there was talk of a "team" of council members. This year it’s the same on the County Commission.

But in all of my political reporting, I’ve never seen a team like the one on Tybee Island right now. Five of the six members of City Council signed a 20-point position paper before they got elected saying exactly what they would do and what they support. Literally, they are on the same page.

Click here to see it.

The most interesting point: “I support random drug testing for elected officials.”

Not only is it interesting, but it’s illegal. Georgia used to make people running for office get tested for drugs, but a lawsuit that made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court changed that..

It shot down the legality of testing elected officials.

So, Tybee Councilman Dick Smith is pushing to city policy to have council members voluntarily submit to drug testing. He says that elected officials shouldn’t be afraid to do what they ask of city employees.

So what happens if five of the six members of council who support drug test voluntarily take and divulge their tests and the other member – Paul Wolff – doesn’t because he may be politically opposed to the idea? He’s the only one of the six council members that didn’t sign the document.

I’m not saying he is opposed to the idea or wouldn’t take the test, I’m just raising a political hypothetical.