“This is the kind of trash the people of Ramseur elected to represent them.”
That’s what Hampton Spivey had to say about me when I resigned from the Ramseur Board of Commissioners in protest earlier this year. His and the four commissioners’ unethical and illegal behavior—violating North Carolina open meetings laws to silence me—made it clear my presence there was going to accomplish nothing.
Who’s the trash now, Happy?
Rather than collect $200 a month to be mocked and silenced, I chose to walk away. I learned long ago that when your enemy is making a mistake, one should never stand in the way. I knew that given enough rope, they’d soon hang themselves.
I have not looked at these people, their meetings, or anything related to this dysfunctional local government since the night I walked away last winter until about a week ago when someone asked me about a flyer going around calling people to last night’s meeting.
We all know which commissioner has a proclivity for using false Facebook identities to stir trouble and drama and then running to the rescue, looking like the voice of reason and virtue. I’d look there for the source of any petitions, flyers, or other drama. That one and the others, to varying degrees, are anything but virtuous.
They didn’t want to talk with me and you, the taxpayers here, about a town manager or better options for our water and sewer (the county MUST take over these utilities and turn them over to a regional authority). More customers and more water used and circulating mean better water and more stable rates. Ramseur had the last forty years to prove they could manage and grow a water system. They left it to rot.
They don’t want to talk about anything but the shortsighted ideas inside their own heads. Now look at the mess they’ve made! Why is the seat I occupied STILL sitting open more than six months after my resignation? Are they holding it open out of respect for my late predecessor?
These people are incompetent and have again proven themselves untrustworthy.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ztFekMVPORI – full meeting video. Can’t embed it because despite their incompetence every other way, they somehow find time and brainpower to learn how to block that function in YouTube.