Commission Chairman Greg Dunn will have opposition this summer as he makes a bid for another term as county commissioner.

Attorney Eric Maxwell announced this week that he will run against Dunn because it’s “time for a change.”

In a letter to The Citizen this week, Maxwell said the current board is wasting taxpayers’ dollars and alluded to the ongoing dispute between the County Commission and the Sheriff’s Office.

In fact, Maxwell believes the county marshal’s office should be eliminated and would pursue that as one of his first goals.

“It makes no sense to have two offices enforcing traffic laws,” he wrote.

Maxwell said the current marshal’s office employees should be folded into the current operations of the Sheriff’s Office. The attorney also advocates establishing a county legal department.

“The County Commission has senselessly spent over half a million dollars in attorney fees over the last year primarily over a petty fight with our sheriff over how some drug dealer’s money should be spent,” Maxwell said.

Maxwell is also against district voting because he believes it promotes classic pork-barrel legislation.

In his letter, Maxwell accused Dunn of being “divisive.”

“I find it interesting that once Steve Brown was vanquished that Greg Dunn has continued his confrontational style of politics,” he said.

In other political news, Commissioner Linda Wells announced that she will seek re-election this summer. Wells has served on the County Commission since 1998.