Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:52:00
From: colleen k
Subject: RE: homosexual activity at Haw River canoe trail on 64

I had to reply to this post. A few years ago, my husband and i were taking our dogs for a walk on the Haw River Canoe trail on 64. I noticed a man waiting in his truck when we arrived. When we returned to the lot, this same man abruptly disengaged contact with another man in the thin stand of trees river’s edge in front of the lot. The two separated and the man who we had first seen when we arrived attempted to play off the awkwardness by engaging us in conversation, while the other man walked behind us to get to his truck.

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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:51:50
From: Allison Weakley
Subject: push polls in Chatham on the Land Transfer Tax?

Yesterday my family and I received a phone call we believe was a push poll on the Land Transfer Tax (and the fellow giving the poll was obviously not from Chatham, as he had trouble at times pronouncing “Chatham”). The poll asked leading questions such as “Would you be more or less likely to vote for the Land Transfer Tax if told that the tax would impact the elderly?”

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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:59:36
From: Elliot M. Cramer
Subject: Open records: a second fiasco

See N&O article

“It’s not up to local governments to supplement the law,” said John Bussian, a Raleigh lawyer and lobbyist for the N.C. Press Association. “The obligation of local boards to release public documents is set forth in chapter and verse in the state law.”

“Most local governments don’t have a separate policy. They have the law,” said Cathy Packer, a media law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:58:39 -0400
From: Dan Cahoon
Subject: I got rants in my pants

I mean it. I want Max Cotten to resign. I really want him to “not be a part of my local political or planning” future. He seems a bit … um… distracted. My apology was heartfelt, as was my request that he resign for his apparent lack of concern for the community at large. He rushed that last vote. Max Cotten asked that the vote be held on August 27th. He did this despite pleas from his fellow counsel members to wait.

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