Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:28:18 -0400
From: Randy E.
Subject: Voller says to give up your child’s meal to pay for Pittsboro Magic Bus
It is sad to see that the Chatham Coalition and Pittsboro Together’s candidate for Pttsboro mayor thinks your child needs to pass on a meal to pay for the Pittsboro magic bus.
On the Chatham Online Bulletin Board at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,14756.15.html
Randy Voller states that “it would appear that a valuable piece of transit infrastructure was purchased for less than a “happy meal”.”
So what the Randy V is basically saying is that he wants to take food away from children so that his friend Dee Reid Starkweather can ride the magic bus for free. Because that’s what it boils down too.
See “Taxpayers to spend $360,000 to save Jeffrey Starkweather’s wife $3,500/year” at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,14807.0.html and
“Now Starkweather’s wife claims taxpayers are saving her $5,000/year” at http://chatham-county-nc.com/bulletinboard/index.php/topic,14839.0.html
The truth is that the “magic” bus that runs between Pittsboro and Chapel Hill with only a couple dozen riders a day was not purchased for the less than a happy meal, it was purchased for 360,000 dollars or about 180,000 happy meals.
As someone else on the bulletin board said “I want my $2.00 back so I can buy my kid a Happy Meal. At least someone in my family will use it.”
The choice is simply. Feed 180,000 meals to the hungry children, poor and elderly of Chatham County or spend it on a near empty bus running up and down 15-501 from Pittsboro to Chapel Hill.
Randy E.