Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:16:07 -0400
From: chathammatters
Subject: Jan Nicholes / The Coalition / Vanderbeck, Thompson, Lucier
In response to Jan Nichols (one of the leaders of the Coalition – the “Progressive” group fronting Vanderbeck, Thompson, and Lucier for County Commissioner),
You have made public your views on what you consider “Extreme”, fair enough, lets have a look at your policies then.
Since the Coalition has been in power, Chatham spending has gone up by around 65% which is 6 times the rate of population growth for the same period.
So according to you, this out of control spending during a recession, is not extreme?
But our conservative candidates wanting to trim 5-7% out of our budget over the next three years is?
You’ve just raised property taxes (during a recession) to pay for this excessive spending.
Yet when the conservative candidates say they do not want to raise taxes, you call them extreme?
You have used our hard earned taxpayer dollars on a bus for a handful of riders daily from Pittsboro to UNC/Chapel Hill.
All of the rest of us in Chatham pay for our own transportation to and from work, on top of that expense, your slate of commissioners have forced us to pay for a mostly empty bus. Or more accurately, mostly empty sometimes, and completely empty most of the time.
Yet you see nothing extreme or wasteful about an empty bus circling back and forth? But it would be extreme, in your view, to get rid of it?
You have blasted the conservative candidates for being “Tea Party inspired”. Let’s look a little closer at what you call extreme.
TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already.
Tea Party folks are for reigning in out of control spending.
Tea Party folks are for upholding the constitution.
Tea Party folks are for reducing the tax burden.
Really, Jan? This is extreme to you and your slate of commissioners?
You think that hiring a “Sustainable Communities Director” a one person department costing us taxpayers $180,000 a year during a recession is not extreme?
Hiring an Obesity Director is not extreme?
Or how about hiring a Human Relations Director, and creating a brand new department for one person, when the county already has a perfectly good, fully staffed, fully trained Human Resources department.
And it goes on, over a half million dollars in new positions and departments during a recession, but you don’t think any of that is extreme?
You say that landowners deciding for themselves what to do with their own land is extreme?
I suppose if you are a Progressive/Socialist you might…
The rest of us call it a basic Constitutional Protection, and Common Sense.
Us voters will decide what is extreme and what isn’t (your advice not withstanding).
My vote will go to the Common Sense Conservative Candidates:
Brian Bock
Pam Stewart
Walter Petty.