Government
At the county level, Big Sur is represented on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors by Supervisor Dave Potter . In the California State Assembly, Big Sur is represented by Bill Monning as part of the 27th Assembly district. In the State Senate, Big Sur is represented by Sam Blakeslee as part of the 15th State Senate district. In the U.S. House of Representatives, Big Sur is part of California's 17th congressional district, represented by Sam Farr.
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“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
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—Bernard Lewis, U.S. Middle Eastern specialist. Islam and the West, ch. 8, Oxford University Press (1993)