Can Mary Phyllis back up her claim that Chatham County laid off more than 700 county employees?

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:12:45 -0400
From: mphorn22
Subject: re Muddylaces: fracking and jobs

Regarding our republican county commissioners and FRACKING: yes, they say they oppose it. But I sent them an email about sections of our state constitution that say that under certain conditions a county or community can oppose a law. They said they may look into it, but that they are more concerned about not going against a law. In other words, they say they oppose fracking and at the same time consider a law to be above the constitution. That’s not how it works. Constitutions supercede laws.

Words mean nothing if they are not backed by action. They have not taken action on “looking into the matter” much less confronting the state about it. Those 3 commissioners’ words mean nothing on the subject of fracking. Thus far. I hope they will take action on this matter.

As to the JOBS AND TAXES: Muddylaces and supporters have forgotten that the democrat dominated county commission actually lowered taxes on several occasions. The one time they raised taxes, they raised them back to an earlier level and not higher than that. During this same time period, they also applied for and received grants to help support spending…..so they would not have to raise taxes. YEAY! And even more than that: they didn’t lay off employees at the county levels.

Our current Republican dominated county commission layed off a lot of county employees at the beginning of their tenure. This past year they patted their own backs about adding 700+ jobs at the private sector level….yet earlier they had eliminated many more jobs at the county employee levels than the private sector added. Hardship for those people laid off, plus during the jobless period the same people also would not have been able to pay taxes to the county. Lose-lose.

– Maryphyllis