Forsyth GOP Chairman Ethan Underwood is now on record as stating that the reason his party couldn’t take a position on the proposed school tax hike is that he wasn’t authorized to do so by the county committee. Well, chairman, did you put the issue to the committee? Did you assert your leadership role in calling a meeting of the county committee and make a case as to why the Republican Party, the party that once stood for limited government and tax cuts, should oppose a tax increase?