Commissioner-elect Zimmer changes stance on personal assistants, picks one

A Carroll commissioner-elect who criticized incumbents during his campaign for wasting taxpayers? dollars on personal assistants has selected his own.

“If I were king of Carroll County, I?d design a different system, but I am starting in the middle of a process, so it?s not something I can wave my magic wand and change,” Michael Zimmer said Thursday. “Elected officials are entitled to select and craft a system, and I am willing … to try it their way.”