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I had friends there from Alexandria and from Virginia Beach. One with 3 Purple Hearts (real ones, they actually drew blood) and a Bronze Star from the Vietnam War. All them had one thing in common, they are all hard working honest people and they were all insulted by 0's comment about the gathering. I accidentally heard MLK's daughter's speech while in my SUV. I was tuning into the Cigar Dave Show on XM Patriot 166. He was preempted by the Beck rally. I was stopped at a light and admiring the completion of a new church steeple and listening to her speech... it was a "moment". I personally witnessed the riots and burning buildings in DC after Dr King's assassination, first from Telegraph Hill in Alexandria. A panoramic view of black smoke rising all over DC and the monuments in between. Then as an invincible 17 year old with a few other invincible 17 year olds driving through DC for a close up and personal tour. Dr King's Dream may have been blown by liberalism, and its a sad thing to see.
I would have happily supported the sales tax, if our politicians were demonstrating fiscal responsibility all across the country. But until they start, I will not offer to give them one additional penny.
Voting for the 1/4 cent tax increase is like caving in to your coke-head cousin who just needs 25 dollars more, even though he already owes you a thousand.
It is now time to say "No more money until you learn how to manage it wisely!"
"But come on, just a little bit more? Please? We really need it!"
Absolutely not! Get off the drugs, pay down what you owe, show responsibility, and then we'll talk.
The progressives are in for a rude awakening in November. All the people they love to ridicule and take for granted, the ones they expect to stay at home and take orders from the elitist ideological left... we are all coming to the polls in November.
I now believe that the pollsters are not figuring in voter enthusiasm, and the November elections are going to be a landslide. I believe that both the Senate and House will flip, and there will be a super-majority in the House.
Yesterday's vote in Watauga was a microcosm of what we will see in November.
$25 more in taxes per year or $0.07 per dad and the County could have a year round swimming pool and recreation center for all sorts of events much paid for by tourist.
You and the conservatives have NO Plan, No Answers and No Vision.
Watauga has some of the best leaders in our community as County Commissioners, people like John Cooper, Winston Kinsey, Billy Raph Winkler,Jim Deal and Tim Futrelle all very hard working and honest leaders that have a vision for the future.
Mike you go be part of the politics of No and Negitivity, follow those with No plan, No ideas, No Vision and no sense of civic duty.
It has been a privilege to serve The Town of Boone as Mayor for these past two years. Today I am announcing my candidacy for another term.
I have so enjoyed the opportunities of working with neighborhoods to preserve and protect their livability, of promoting Boone to newcomers and visitors, of looking for creative ways to find the money to plant more trees and open more green space, and, of course, of getting to cut the grand opening ribbons for new small businesses in Boone.
It’s not always easy to try to balance the various interests in our town, but I have always continued to look to the future, to be fair to all the people, and I have always faced Boone’s important issues head-on with all my heart and soul.
I love our town.
My priorities continue to be:
--Protection and Preservation of our Town’s R-1 Neighborhoods. This has always been my Number 1 priority. I have worked to encourage mixed-use developments to encourage more Town housing and strive to protect the integrity of our established neighborhoods. --New Water Source. Working for the completion of our long term water plan is very important to me. The town is going to use this important resource in the most advanced environmental way possible. --Promotion of Our Small Local Businesses. These businesses are one of the important backbones of our community. I pledge to continue to work hard in their interests. --Continued Expansion of Our Greenways and Parks. Greenspace and places to ride bikes, walk, run, and picnic are important to the livability of our town, both short and long term --The New High School. I have always been a strong advocate for our new school, and am so very proud the Town has had the opportunity to be a part of this exciting new project.
Cracker lpov wrote: "$25 more in taxes per year or $0.07 per dad and the County could have a year round swimming pool and recreation center for all sorts of events much paid for by tourist."
Thought we HAD an indoor pool. Every school has a gym, why don't you volunteer to open them up after hours for the kids like Alan Trivette used to do? And WHY should total strangers pay for YOUR enjoyment? Why do you want to take other peoples money away from them? Why do you feel that YOU are entitled to what other people have?
"Mike you go be part of the politics of No and Negitivity, follow those with No plan, No ideas, No Vision and no sense of civic duty."
CIVIS DUTY??????? Like adding another million dollars of debt on ourselves and our children? like another stealing of the money of the poor people of this county so you can have a new Jimmy Deal Recreation Center?
To say "NO" to stupid and senseless acts when our neighbors are hurting in the Obamao Economiuc Collapse is the best type of Civic Duty.
Loretta Clawson has done a terrific job as Mayor and has a positive outlook. Loretta has vision, a plan and knows how to think. Loretta is no part of the politics of negativity.
Yes Liberal POV the new High is a mistake. All the BS about it being for the kids is rubbish. How about the kids who have an hour and a half bus ride one way each day? Some fifteen years ago we had the opportunity to build a second high school and that was abolished so we could play FOOTBALL with the big schools. Smaller classes and less commute times were not considered so FOOOTBALL could be played. Costs over runs plagued ( Wake county built same size school for 17 million less) the construction plus poor planning like computer rooms being built then deciding to give all kids laptops made those rooms unusable. Projections of the school board puts mobile class rooms on site within five years or less. Liberal POV Please continue to let "good intentions" trump results or emotions outweigh facts.
Get used to disappointment, Liberalproverbs18:2. The people spoke at the special election that was held solely to try to limit voter response in order for the tax to pass. Many thanks are due those that let the public know what was going on.
The people are going to speak again in November. This si the point in time that your feelings will really be hurt.
Aah Haaaa, aaahhh haaa Liberal Socialist Sheep POV. Looks like your nanny state tax didn't make it!! What I find so interesting is that Watauga County is now full of liberal socialists like you who are intent on taking other people's hard earned money for dubious projects. So how did you lose the vote 2 to 1? LOL! Doesn't take an expert to see your flawed paradigm is rapidly crumbling as we said it would when you messiah, Hussein Obama was elected by idiots such as yourself! LOL!!! This is just going to get better and better. While you idiots are banning truth tellers like me over on the Watch, this site continues to tell the truth and forcast an obvious future!! HA!
We didn't need a new high school in the first place. Unknown to outsiders like you, old Watauga High was originally built with future expansions in mind. Those expansions were to go up. In addition, there was enough land along the sides to expand as well. But out of touch liberal politicians who, like you, wanted to spend the tax payers hard earned money on feel good projects, decided we needed a new high school. What a bunch of idiots. Did you attend Watauga High School? What about Blowing Rock High School or Appalachian High School?
Outsider like you are what ruined our one time utopia. Of course you have your piece of paradise now so you are trying to prevent others from having the same on their very own land (steep slope). Perhaps our country has awakened and will push slugs like you back under the dung pile from whence you came. LOL!!
Don't get too carried away with yourself. The vote was about taxes, not about your Templetons getting to build slums on ridgelines.
Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing. I encourage you to hop on google maps sometime, and look at a satellite closeup of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Just pan the entire length of the border, and you will see what I mean.
You may wish to have the right to defecate in the streets and cut down every last tree, but this vote was not about your right to act like a Haitian. It was about taxation and spending.
Mike D- Are you thinking that if the Haitian government had more environmental laws it would stop the desperation in Haiti? The cutting down of everything usable by people with nothing would not be stopped by tree hugger laws. The same thing would happen here if society and the economy collapse.... all tree hugger and hunting laws are off. As we developed in to a strong industrial country, the number of trees increase. As we can fight forest fires because of our advanced technology, the amount of trees grows.
MikeD, what slums are you referring to? The only issues I am aware of concerning the Templetons are those in which the Town of Boone violated its own ordinances in dealing with them.
It might interest you to know that trees are a renewable resource, just like any other crop. Warehouser plants three trees for every one it cuts
Why are you bringing up trees? Rico mentioned nothing about trees. She did mention the steep slope ordinance that is a political tool used to stop development. Any valid concerns covered by this law were already covered under other existing ordinance, many of them on the state level.
At the risk of piling on (and I realize the rhetoric level can rise when debating Rico) I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with your statement: "Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing". I also doubt anyone including Rico is advocating "the right to defecate in the streets and cut down every last tree". There's a Latin phrase for that sort of debate and it's typically employed by Liberals.
I don't live in Boone so I'm not up on the details of the vote so maybe I'm missing something.
The point of my comment is that Rico is trying to bend the results of the election to prove something entirely unrelated to the election, his personal crusade, a Templeton issue, something that has already been settled and is old business.
Defecating in the street and cutting down trees is no more related to this vote than is Rico's:
"Outsider like you are what ruined our one time utopia. Of course you have your piece of paradise now so you are trying to prevent others from having the same on their very own land (steep slope). Perhaps our country has awakened and will push slugs like you back under the dung pile from whence you came."
If you want to lose in November, do what Rico is doing.
Don't tell people what they believe. Listen to what they are saying!!!
I don't know who the Templetons are or what the "vote" was for or against. Without the proper context it's hard for me to understand the point that you're making. I probably should have kept my mouth shut.
You wrote:"Don't tell people what they believe. Listen to what they are saying!!!"
I'd let it go but you used 3 (count'm) exclamation points!!! So, I feel compelled to ask, who is "saying" the things you suggest?
The thing is, I think Conservatives are falsely portrayed as anti-environment. It bugs me that the masses "believe" this false narrative. Isn't your post playing into that narrative?
I may just be over analyzing a pinpointed, Johnny Rico inspired metaphor, if so I apologize... but 3 exclamation points...
You're doing a fine job and HD I'm happy to see the voice of reason I seldom see.
Guy
I call you a Know Nothing and once again you live up to the label.
The steep slope issue is a scientific measurable issue.
You as a conservative would have predatory capitalist sell some unsuspecting working class family a lot or a home on a lot that has a very good chance of sliding onto the home below.
You consider government agencies labeling such properties as over regulating.
You and the man who trashes every inch of his property along 421 in Valis are who I think of when I think of the Republican mentality. Sure I know that not all Republicans are like that and, I think I would like Reader and HD if we met but other sound insane.
Mike D do you know the area along 421 just before 321 turn to Sugar Grove I call Republicanville it meets your Haiti example.
Yep Liberal POV the Wolf is right your Junk dealer is a registered Democrat, proving once again you never let facts get in the way of a good smear campaign.
"Don't get too carried away with yourself. The vote was about taxes, not about your Templetons getting to build slums on ridgelines."
Well, well, well. I see you have recovered enough from the last liberal bashing I gave you, and you want another licking. No problem, you came to the right place. I was having a good time hammering you on the Watch, but I got kicked off that site again by asking questions you liberal socialists just couldn't seem to answer. Yes, I got kicked off to prove a point, which is/was well proven. LOL!!
Anyway, you are wrong on the above quote. The vote was about taxes and so much more. The ridgeline development issue was there, the opressive government issue was there, and an early indicator of voter dissatisfaction with elected leadership was there. You see, folks are starting to recognize the contextual environment they are living in. This is what is termed an "open system" in which many outside elements, all intricately linked, come into play to affect the socio-political and socio-economic scene. The vote has sent a message to the liberals running in November. My guess is they will distance themselves from supporting the recreation center tax which they now know is a losing issue. The same with steep slope development and a host of other issues.
I am sure you are far too stupid to understand even a little of the essential truths I am educating you in, but try, please.
"Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing."
Mikey, easy ole boy, don't jump to unsubstianted conclusions like a typical liberal.
Remember when I hammered you liberals over on the Watch with the hydroelectric dams issue, or the American Chestnut hybrid introduction, or hunters as conservationists, or the need for small organic farms, or the need for wind and solar energy programs, or the fact that I would support hybrid cars if liberal socialists like you would support assault weapons in gun racks in those automobiles, or saving the hemlocks from the Hemlock Adeglid, or advocating for the purchase of 50,000 acres in Sampson as part of our National Forest System (too late for that now- where were all the tree hugging liberals?)?
Forgot about all those environmental issues I support didn't you? I would have selective memory also if I had to go all the way to Haiti to find an example of environmental damage when the damage is being done right here in your own county due to liberal anti-environmental policies. Not very smart my cognitively challenged friend. Perhaps you should do a little home grown research before pulling some obscure example from a third world cesspool.
The tax that was voted down by smart voters (how did you vote?) speaks to all these issues. Voters are sick of big brother spoiling our environment and spending our money on un-needed recreation centers.
Perhaps you should work for your money instead of taking mine. You remind me of Liberal POV - you two might be the same person.
LOL!!
Want a little more of this medicine? Didn't think so. Keep your trap shut unless you want another dose of well worded reality. Aside from me putting you in your small, dark place where mushrooms sprout, it looks like others feel the same way. LOL!!
If you had any interest in listening to others, you would already know that I voted against the tax, and you would know the reasons why. But you don't want to listen to or learn from others. You want only to hear yourself speak, so that is all you will ever receive.
You wish to co-opt the election results, annex them into the high-speed logical train wreck that comprises your ability to reason out your world view, and in so doing, you muddle the reality of the moment, and diminish the raw power that has just been demonstrated by the electorate.
You also attack someone who is on the side that you claim to represent, clearly demonstrating that you are either not on that side at all, or you are just really bad at it.
The steep-slope issue has been decided. Get over it, and move on. There was no landslide of public opinion against that issue. There has already been an election after the issue was decided, and your candidates did not win.
This election was about one thing... money. It is such an airtight winning issue that only Rico-esque idiocy will be able to hand it away to the party currently in power.
Perhaps you should, for the sake of your own goals, bow out of the public discourse until December and let the less incendiary, careful thinkers represent your ideology.
Every time you open your mouth, you do damage to the cause you claim to represent. You are so awful that I am beginning to think you are a plant.
Mike D wrote- "Every time you open your mouth, you do damage to the cause you claim to represent."
Passion and lots more of it Rico. I for one am weary of the play nice to get along with the people ruining our great country. Fear of raising our voice allowed the Left to gain way too much. The dainty white gloves are off and the bare fisted political smack downs are on. Tell it Rico! Any innocent by-standers can be sorted out later.
If you beat the enemy by becoming the enemy, your victory will be little more than a pendulum swing back to your side for a couple of years. Why settle for that, when we can fundamentally reshape the electorate for decades to come?
Every Republican politician, when asked what he will do differently, needs only to say "I will spend less money", and he will have an easy campaign to victory. But so many of them either can't do it, or haven't figured it out yet.
It drives me nuts, watching the interviews where these candidates keep dancing around the questions with typical political non-speak.
It's like Governor Christie says. They do it because they want an "escape hatch". They don't want to commit themselves to actually doing what they are being elected to do.
And in this case, the people are screaming that we want them to eliminate the deficit and pay down the debt.
This vote is not about gay marriage, it is not about abortion, and it is not about Rico Templeton's decided and laid to rest steep slope issue.
Listen to Sark, Tell it like imagine it is, go be the voice of the New Republican party of negativity. Represent the Know Nothings, Be the voice of NO. Go Johnny go!
The voice of no? Liberals are a majority in Watauga County now, and they said not No, but HELL NO to the tax increase!! Looks like others are joining the bandwagon. LOL!!
"You want only to hear yourself speak, so that is all you will ever receive."
This is a public forum isn't it? Sharing with others is not consistent with hearing oneself speak. Your elementary perversion of stated facts is both alarming and a bit sad. I feel sorry for you Mike D. You have never been able to achieve true identity and sort of float out there wondering if you can solidify internal foundational beliefs with the beliefs of others whom you WANT to identify with. That has to be a tough way to live. Again, I hope you may achieve whatever it is you are looking for one of these days.
"You also attack someone who is on the side that you claim to represent"
Really? When I supported all the environmental issues I listed above (you sure didn't want to bite off on those) over on Watauga Watch, you attacked. When attacked I retaliate with more than I recieve. I wasn't going to point out the obvious, but you just got dog piled for the hubris you spout with undignified self-rightousness. Yes, you are losing this, and I predict you will quit and go away sooner rather than later. LOL!!!
"The steep-slope issue has been decided. Get over it, and move on"
Let me get this straight. When a body of politics decides something, you prefer to roll over and take it as an everlasting, written in stone edict? For someone who fancies himself a thinker, this is downright dangerous thinking. Good thing Dick Heller in DC or McDonald in Chicago didn't feel the same way when they challenged an out of control government over the 2nd Amendment. The steep slope act, which I accurately cross reference with the proposed tax increase is an attempt at controlling people. No logical train wreck, only an interconnected system of societal inputs that produce a result.
Looky here Mikey. You need to get on the right side of things. Quit trying to play devil's advocate so much. Most of us don't need that unless it is done behind closed doors in a strategy making session. Your morality is tiresome and adds nothing to public virtue except to highlight the fact you enjoy being in the limelight (hearing yourself speak).
If you still insist on being an idiot, plan on the ole D9 cranking up to reduce you to a literary pile of liberal dust. LOL!!
Mike D- If you think the unrest in this country is only about government spending and taxing, I've got news for you. This is about loss of liberty, loss of personal choice and loss of the future. It is about the US Constitution being hijacked by a lecturer with NO real world experience. The spending and tax thing is only part of it.
"This is about loss of liberty, loss of personal choice and loss of the future. It is about the US Constitution being hijacked by a lecturer with NO real world experience."
I thought that was during the Bush Admin when Dick Cheney was in charge. Torture, suspending habeas corpus, a president appointed by the Supreme Court, Invasion of Iraq, secret prisons. What are you bitchen about?
"Torture, suspending habeas corpus, a president appointed by the Supreme Court, Invasion of Iraq, secret prisons"
Who was tortured? What kind of "torture". What is wrong with interrogating enemy soldiers to save American soldiers? What would you say to the parents of dead American soldiers who might have lived had their antagonists been interogated with proven techniques? Why do you not whine about Mexico and all the third world countries who truly torture their prisoners on a daily basis. Tell you what, idiot, go to Mexico, get busted for using some of that cheap weed you use, and decide not to answer questions and see what happens. Want to bet Van Der Sloot confessed because he was tortured? LOL!!!
President appointed by Supreme Court? Really, what was the vote breakdown? How did this occur? LOL! Getting tough again ain't it?
Invasion of Iraq. What is wrong with this? Al Quaeda and other Muslims in that country needed killing. What Bush did wrong here was not declaring total war on the entire population with victory in mind. Remember, your politically correctness was the reason for the invasion and protracted war. Show me where a precision strike has ever won a war. LOL!! That was easy!
Secret Prisons. If this is such a problem, and I can't understand why it is, then why don't liberal idiots such as yourself whine about "secret prisons" all over the United States during WWII? Nazi scientists and prisoners were held in metropolitan areas for years, yet not a peep from idiots like you. As long as the enemy soldiers are imprisioned or executed, I could care less if it is in secret or not. They are prisoners of war you idiot. Why no word on the American POWs held after Vietnam. You claim to be a Vietnam Vetran (your a coward), but nary a word on your fellow service members who may still be held there this very minute.
They are still finding Jap POWs in Siberia, yet the liberals don't seem interested in THOSE truly secret prisons. Can you say hypocrite? LOL!!
LOL!! Just saw all those deleted posts. Excellant. Looks like someone we know got a little hot under the collar. This means I won. I beat you. You let your emotions get the best of you. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You and Liberal POV are the same you whiner of an idiot!! LOL!!!
POV, when will you too run away? I feel sorry for you too. Sorry that your parents didn't know what the words discipline and hard work were!!!
I agree and I'd add it's about an administration that has no problem with lying to the American people and a press that is complicit. Unlike Hillary's bogus claim there truly is a vast left-wing conspiracy. It's real and very scary.
However, I don't think that's what Mike D is saying. He seems to be talking about the specific vote in Boone and I don't know the details. The best I can tell Johnny Rico and Mike D voted the same way and are arguing about why people voted the way they did. I'm tempted to say they are both wrong because everyone has their own reason to justify their vote but instead I'll say it's a pointless argument. It's impossible to know all the motivations. One voter may think the law goes to far while another thinks it doesn't go far enough. They both vote no for very different reasons. It doesn't matter. The bickering seems to me to be more personal than anything else, much like Guy Faulkes vs. Bikerbard. Evidently the two-bit blog "Watauga Watch" breeds contempt without settling squat.
Relax, ease up on the chest thumping. They were all yours, notice the time stamps, all 3:48 PM. Once was enough, so I deleted the other seven identical ones. It happens.
H.D- To me it read like an attack on people not in the middle of the road. We are fighting a ruthless and dedicated foe. It is time to fight them politically harder than they fight to overturn the US Constitution. The Republicans, being nice, have allowed two anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court justices to be confirmed without a real fight. We have liberals in this country thinking Chavez is an OK guy. These same people voted for Obama. Just as Obama moved to make government controlled health care, he will also move to control food as his Leftist buddies have. You control health care and the food supply, you control the people. Chastise and verbally beat down liberals. They are cowards by nature and will weaken.
"If you think the unrest in this country is only about government spending and taxing, I've got news for you." - Sark
I never said it was the only issue. I said it is the winning issue, as has just been demonstrated with our local referendum, which sparked high voter turnout outside the liberal core at the town center to defeat that core group of 2000 voters who will always turn out to vote in favor of higher taxes. It was all about turnout, and it was all about money.
And if the message doesn't get muddled or polluted, the same thing is going to happen all over the country in a few months.
"Just saw all those deleted posts. Excellant(sic). Looks like someone we know got a little hot under the collar. This means I won. I beat you. You let your emotions get the best of you. Ha, ha, ha, ha." - Johnny Rico
"Johnny Rico, Relax, ease up on the chest thumping. They were all yours, notice the time stamps, all 3:48 PM. Once was enough, so I deleted the other seven identical ones." - Honest Debate
Rico, you are the second dishonest person I have dealt with tonight. I'm going to bed now, and hopefully tomorrow will bring only honest people into my life.
Congratulations on your lie... I mean your victory. Good night, dude.
Those were not my posts. Perhaps our friend Mike D(ummy) tried the ole liberal tactic of posting under the enemies name. That's ok, because I was done with him anyway.
Look at the time stamp on the one post I did not delete. It's 3:48PM just like the others. There's no doubt they were yours. Mike D. could not have done it if he tried. You couldn't either. It's some kind of glitch. Like I said, it happens. No harm, no foul.
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I had friends there from Alexandria and from Virginia Beach. One with 3 Purple Hearts (real ones, they actually drew blood) and a Bronze Star from the Vietnam War. All them had one thing in common, they are all hard working honest people and they were all insulted by 0's comment about the gathering.
I accidentally heard MLK's daughter's speech while in my SUV. I was tuning into the Cigar Dave Show on XM Patriot 166. He was preempted by the Beck rally. I was stopped at a light and admiring the completion of a new church steeple and listening to her speech... it was a "moment".
I personally witnessed the riots and burning buildings in DC after Dr King's assassination, first from Telegraph Hill in Alexandria. A panoramic view of black smoke rising all over DC and the monuments in between. Then as an invincible 17 year old with a few other invincible 17 year olds driving through DC for a close up and personal tour.
Dr King's Dream may have been blown by liberalism, and its a sad thing to see.
This may seem a bit picky but I think it gives insight into one difference between the left and right: personal responsibility.
Isn't it a hoot how marginalized Al Sharpton has become?
Sark,
Nice "moment".
H.D- The last part of the "Al Sharpton" link verifies the MLK Dream was lost, intentionally, by the likes of Al Sharpton and his fellow speakers.
I would have happily supported the sales tax, if our politicians were demonstrating fiscal responsibility all across the country. But until they start, I will not offer to give them one additional penny.
Voting for the 1/4 cent tax increase is like caving in to your coke-head cousin who just needs 25 dollars more, even though he already owes you a thousand.
It is now time to say "No more money until you learn how to manage it wisely!"
"But come on, just a little bit more? Please? We really need it!"
Absolutely not! Get off the drugs, pay down what you owe, show responsibility, and then we'll talk.
The progressives are in for a rude awakening in November. All the people they love to ridicule and take for granted, the ones they expect to stay at home and take orders from the elitist ideological left... we are all coming to the polls in November.
I now believe that the pollsters are not figuring in voter enthusiasm, and the November elections are going to be a landslide. I believe that both the Senate and House will flip, and there will be a super-majority in the House.
Yesterday's vote in Watauga was a microcosm of what we will see in November.
Mike D., well said.
Mike D
$25 more in taxes per year or $0.07 per dad and the County could have a year round swimming pool and recreation center for all sorts of events much paid for by tourist.
You and the conservatives have NO Plan, No Answers and No Vision.
Watauga has some of the best leaders in our community as County Commissioners, people like John Cooper, Winston Kinsey, Billy Raph Winkler,Jim Deal and Tim Futrelle all very hard working and honest leaders that have a vision for the future.
Mike you go be part of the politics of No and Negitivity, follow those with No plan, No ideas, No Vision and no sense of civic duty.
Loretta Clawson
218 VFW Drive
Boone, NC 28607
264-3093
lorettaclawson@townofboone.net
Filing Statement
July 6, 2009
It has been a privilege to serve The Town of Boone as Mayor for these past two years. Today I am announcing my candidacy for another term.
I have so enjoyed the opportunities of working with neighborhoods to preserve and protect their livability, of promoting Boone to newcomers and visitors, of looking for creative ways to find the money to plant more trees and open more green space, and, of course, of getting to cut the grand opening ribbons for new small businesses in Boone.
It’s not always easy to try to balance the various interests in our town, but I have always continued to look to the future, to be fair to all the people, and I have always faced Boone’s important issues head-on with all my heart and soul.
I love our town.
My priorities continue to be:
--Protection and Preservation of our Town’s R-1 Neighborhoods. This has always been my Number 1 priority. I have worked to encourage mixed-use developments to encourage more Town housing and strive to protect the integrity of our established neighborhoods.
--New Water Source. Working for the completion of our long term water plan is very important to me. The town is going to use this important resource in the most advanced environmental way possible.
--Promotion of Our Small Local Businesses. These businesses are one of the important backbones of our community. I pledge to continue to work hard in their interests.
--Continued Expansion of Our Greenways and Parks. Greenspace and places to ride bikes, walk, run, and picnic are important to the livability of our town, both short and long term
--The New High School. I have always been a strong advocate for our new school, and am so very proud the Town has had the opportunity to be a part of this exciting new project.
Cracker lpov wrote: "$25 more in taxes per year or $0.07 per dad and the County could have a year round swimming pool and recreation center for all sorts of events much paid for by tourist."
Thought we HAD an indoor pool. Every school has a gym, why don't you volunteer to open them up after hours for the kids like Alan Trivette used to do? And WHY should total strangers pay for YOUR enjoyment? Why do you want to take other peoples money away from them? Why do you feel that YOU are entitled to what other people have?
"Mike you go be part of the politics of No and Negitivity, follow those with No plan, No ideas, No Vision and no sense of civic duty."
CIVIS DUTY??????? Like adding another million dollars of debt on ourselves and our children? like another stealing of the money of the poor people of this county so you can have a new Jimmy Deal Recreation Center?
To say "NO" to stupid and senseless acts when our neighbors are hurting in the Obamao Economiuc Collapse is the best type of Civic Duty.
Loretta Clawson has done a terrific job as Mayor and has a positive outlook.
Loretta has vision, a plan and knows how to think.
Loretta is no part of the politics of negativity.
I don't get to vote in Boone but wish her well.
Liberal POV,
As long as you are going to assign me to the "politics of No" group, I have two more "No"s for you:
1) No more money until they become responsible with what they are currently being given.
2) No more terms to serve in the United States Congress.
:-)
Mike D
"1) No more money until they become responsible with what they are currently being given."
Who are They? You Think the new High School was a mistake? You believe the Recreational Center would not have been a wonderful investment?
Was the War in Iraq which took 3 trillion tax payer dollars being responsible?
2) No more terms to serve in the United States Congress.
If you're talking Ms Foxx or Mr Mc Henry I agree.
Yes Liberal POV the new High is a mistake. All the BS about it being for the kids is rubbish. How about the kids who have an hour and a half bus ride one way each day? Some fifteen years ago we had the opportunity to build a second high school and that was abolished so we could play FOOTBALL with the big schools. Smaller classes and less commute times were not considered so FOOOTBALL could be played. Costs over runs plagued ( Wake county built same size school for 17 million less) the construction plus poor planning like computer rooms being built then deciding to give all kids laptops made those rooms unusable. Projections of the school board puts mobile class rooms on site within five years or less. Liberal POV Please continue to let "good intentions" trump results or emotions outweigh facts.
Get used to disappointment, Liberalproverbs18:2. The people spoke at the special election that was held solely to try to limit voter response in order for the tax to pass. Many thanks are due those that let the public know what was going on.
The people are going to speak again in November. This si the point in time that your feelings will really be hurt.
Aah Haaaa, aaahhh haaa Liberal Socialist Sheep POV. Looks like your nanny state tax didn't make it!! What I find so interesting is that Watauga County is now full of liberal socialists like you who are intent on taking other people's hard earned money for dubious projects. So how did you lose the vote 2 to 1? LOL! Doesn't take an expert to see your flawed paradigm is rapidly crumbling as we said it would when you messiah, Hussein Obama was elected by idiots such as yourself! LOL!!! This is just going to get better and better. While you idiots are banning truth tellers like me over on the Watch, this site continues to tell the truth and forcast an obvious future!! HA!
We didn't need a new high school in the first place. Unknown to outsiders like you, old Watauga High was originally built with future expansions in mind. Those expansions were to go up. In addition, there was enough land along the sides to expand as well. But out of touch liberal politicians who, like you, wanted to spend the tax payers hard earned money on feel good projects, decided we needed a new high school. What a bunch of idiots. Did you attend Watauga High School? What about Blowing Rock High School or Appalachian High School?
Outsider like you are what ruined our one time utopia. Of course you have your piece of paradise now so you are trying to prevent others from having the same on their very own land (steep slope). Perhaps our country has awakened and will push slugs like you back under the dung pile from whence you came. LOL!!
Now that one sure stings!! Don't it!
Your ole pal
Amy
Johnny Rico
Liberal Socialist Sheep POV said:
"Mike you go be part of the politics of No"
And so were many of your fellow liberal lemmings!!!! LOL!!!
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
PS Were you born stupid or did you get that way somehow?
Rico,
Don't get too carried away with yourself. The vote was about taxes, not about your Templetons getting to build slums on ridgelines.
Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing. I encourage you to hop on google maps sometime, and look at a satellite closeup of the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Just pan the entire length of the border, and you will see what I mean.
You may wish to have the right to defecate in the streets and cut down every last tree, but this vote was not about your right to act like a Haitian. It was about taxation and spending.
Now straighten up, knave!
Mike D- Are you thinking that if the Haitian government had more environmental laws it would stop the desperation in Haiti? The cutting down of everything usable by people with nothing would not be stopped by tree hugger laws. The same thing would happen here if society and the economy collapse.... all tree hugger and hunting laws are off.
As we developed in to a strong industrial country, the number of trees increase. As we can fight forest fires because of our advanced technology, the amount of trees grows.
MikeD, what slums are you referring to? The only issues I am aware of concerning the Templetons are those in which the Town of Boone violated its own ordinances in dealing with them.
It might interest you to know that trees are a renewable resource, just like any other crop. Warehouser plants three trees for every one it cuts
Why are you bringing up trees? Rico mentioned nothing about trees. She did mention the steep slope ordinance that is a political tool used to stop development. Any valid concerns covered by this law were already covered under other existing ordinance, many of them on the state level.
Mike D,
At the risk of piling on (and I realize the rhetoric level can rise when debating Rico) I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with your statement: "Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing". I also doubt anyone including Rico is advocating "the right to defecate in the streets and cut down every last tree". There's a Latin phrase for that sort of debate and it's typically employed by Liberals.
I don't live in Boone so I'm not up on the details of the vote so maybe I'm missing something.
Guys,
The point of my comment is that Rico is trying to bend the results of the election to prove something entirely unrelated to the election, his personal crusade, a Templeton issue, something that has already been settled and is old business.
Defecating in the street and cutting down trees is no more related to this vote than is Rico's:
"Outsider like you are what ruined our one time utopia. Of course you have your piece of paradise now so you are trying to prevent others from having the same on their very own land (steep slope). Perhaps our country has awakened and will push slugs like you back under the dung pile from whence you came."
If you want to lose in November, do what Rico is doing.
Don't tell people what they believe. Listen to what they are saying!!!
Mike D,
I don't know who the Templetons are or what the "vote" was for or against. Without the proper context it's hard for me to understand the point that you're making. I probably should have kept my mouth shut.
You wrote:"Don't tell people what they believe. Listen to what they are saying!!!"
I'd let it go but you used 3 (count'm) exclamation points!!! So, I feel compelled to ask, who is "saying" the things you suggest?
The thing is, I think Conservatives are falsely portrayed as anti-environment. It bugs me that the masses "believe" this false narrative. Isn't your post playing into that narrative?
I may just be over analyzing a pinpointed, Johnny Rico inspired metaphor, if so I apologize... but 3 exclamation points...
Mike D
You're doing a fine job and HD I'm happy to see the voice of reason I seldom see.
Guy
I call you a Know Nothing and once again you live up to the label.
The steep slope issue is a scientific measurable issue.
You as a conservative would have predatory capitalist sell some unsuspecting working class family a lot or a home on a lot that has a very good chance of sliding onto the home below.
You consider government agencies labeling such properties as over regulating.
You and the man who trashes every inch of his property along 421 in Valis are who I think of when I think of the Republican mentality. Sure I know that not all Republicans are like that and, I think I would like Reader and HD if we met but other sound insane.
Mike D do you know the area along 421 just before 321 turn to Sugar Grove I call Republicanville it meets your Haiti example.
Actually, I believe the owner of that trash heap is a dem.
Yep Liberal POV the Wolf is right your Junk dealer is a registered Democrat, proving once again you never let facts get in the way of a good smear campaign.
Mike D(ummy) said,
"Don't get too carried away with yourself. The vote was about taxes, not about your Templetons getting to build slums on ridgelines."
Well, well, well. I see you have recovered enough from the last liberal bashing I gave you, and you want another licking. No problem, you came to the right place. I was having a good time hammering you on the Watch, but I got kicked off that site again by asking questions you liberal socialists just couldn't seem to answer. Yes, I got kicked off to prove a point, which is/was well proven. LOL!!
Anyway, you are wrong on the above quote. The vote was about taxes and so much more. The ridgeline development issue was there, the opressive government issue was there, and an early indicator of voter dissatisfaction with elected leadership was there. You see, folks are starting to recognize the contextual environment they are living in. This is what is termed an "open system" in which many outside elements, all intricately linked, come into play to affect the socio-political and socio-economic scene. The vote has sent a message to the liberals running in November. My guess is they will distance themselves from supporting the recreation center tax which they now know is a losing issue. The same with steep slope development and a host of other issues.
I am sure you are far too stupid to understand even a little of the essential truths I am educating you in, but try, please.
"Look away, look away, look away, Dixieland......."
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
PS Want another dose or two?
Billy
Mike D(ummy) said:
"Some environmental protection is not such a bad thing."
Mikey, easy ole boy, don't jump to unsubstianted conclusions like a typical liberal.
Remember when I hammered you liberals over on the Watch with the hydroelectric dams issue, or the American Chestnut hybrid introduction, or hunters as conservationists, or the need for small organic farms, or the need for wind and solar energy programs, or the fact that I would support hybrid cars if liberal socialists like you would support assault weapons in gun racks in those automobiles, or saving the hemlocks from the Hemlock Adeglid, or advocating for the purchase of 50,000 acres in Sampson as part of our National Forest System (too late for that now- where were all the tree hugging liberals?)?
Forgot about all those environmental issues I support didn't you? I would have selective memory also if I had to go all the way to Haiti to find an example of environmental damage when the damage is being done right here in your own county due to liberal anti-environmental policies. Not very smart my cognitively challenged friend. Perhaps you should do a little home grown research before pulling some obscure example from a third world cesspool.
The tax that was voted down by smart voters (how did you vote?) speaks to all these issues. Voters are sick of big brother spoiling our environment and spending our money on un-needed recreation centers.
Perhaps you should work for your money instead of taking mine. You remind me of Liberal POV - you two might be the same person.
LOL!!
Want a little more of this medicine? Didn't think so. Keep your trap shut unless you want another dose of well worded reality. Aside from me putting you in your small, dark place where mushrooms sprout, it looks like others feel the same way. LOL!!
Your dear ole pal
Johnny "Stinger" Rico
PS Stings don't it?
Rico,
If you had any interest in listening to others, you would already know that I voted against the tax, and you would know the reasons why. But you don't want to listen to or learn from others. You want only to hear yourself speak, so that is all you will ever receive.
You wish to co-opt the election results, annex them into the high-speed logical train wreck that comprises your ability to reason out your world view, and in so doing, you muddle the reality of the moment, and diminish the raw power that has just been demonstrated by the electorate.
You also attack someone who is on the side that you claim to represent, clearly demonstrating that you are either not on that side at all, or you are just really bad at it.
The steep-slope issue has been decided. Get over it, and move on. There was no landslide of public opinion against that issue. There has already been an election after the issue was decided, and your candidates did not win.
This election was about one thing... money. It is such an airtight winning issue that only Rico-esque idiocy will be able to hand it away to the party currently in power.
Perhaps you should, for the sake of your own goals, bow out of the public discourse until December and let the less incendiary, careful thinkers represent your ideology.
Every time you open your mouth, you do damage to the cause you claim to represent. You are so awful that I am beginning to think you are a plant.
Mike D wrote- "Every time you open your mouth, you do damage to the cause you claim to represent."
Passion and lots more of it Rico. I for one am weary of the play nice to get along with the people ruining our great country. Fear of raising our voice allowed the Left to gain way too much. The dainty white gloves are off and the bare fisted political smack downs are on.
Tell it Rico! Any innocent by-standers can be sorted out later.
Sark,
Passion yes, but with honor and honesty, please!
If you beat the enemy by becoming the enemy, your victory will be little more than a pendulum swing back to your side for a couple of years. Why settle for that, when we can fundamentally reshape the electorate for decades to come?
Every Republican politician, when asked what he will do differently, needs only to say "I will spend less money", and he will have an easy campaign to victory. But so many of them either can't do it, or haven't figured it out yet.
It drives me nuts, watching the interviews where these candidates keep dancing around the questions with typical political non-speak.
It's like Governor Christie says. They do it because they want an "escape hatch". They don't want to commit themselves to actually doing what they are being elected to do.
And in this case, the people are screaming that we want them to eliminate the deficit and pay down the debt.
This vote is not about gay marriage, it is not about abortion, and it is not about Rico Templeton's decided and laid to rest steep slope issue.
Johnny
Listen to Sark, Tell it like imagine it is, go be the voice of the New Republican party of negativity. Represent the Know Nothings, Be the voice of NO.
Go Johnny go!
Liberal Socialist Sheep POV,
The voice of no? Liberals are a majority in Watauga County now, and they said not No, but HELL NO to the tax increase!! Looks like others are joining the bandwagon. LOL!!
Your ole pal
Johnny Rico
Jeff
PS That one hurt didn't it?
Mike D(ummy) said:
"You want only to hear yourself speak, so that is all you will ever receive."
This is a public forum isn't it? Sharing with others is not consistent with hearing oneself speak. Your elementary perversion of stated facts is both alarming and a bit sad. I feel sorry for you Mike D. You have never been able to achieve true identity and sort of float out there wondering if you can solidify internal foundational beliefs with the beliefs of others whom you WANT to identify with. That has to be a tough way to live. Again, I hope you may achieve whatever it is you are looking for one of these days.
"You also attack someone who is on the side that you claim to represent"
Really? When I supported all the environmental issues I listed above (you sure didn't want to bite off on those) over on Watauga Watch, you attacked. When attacked I retaliate with more than I recieve. I wasn't going to point out the obvious, but you just got dog piled for the hubris you spout with undignified self-rightousness. Yes, you are losing this, and I predict you will quit and go away sooner rather than later. LOL!!!
"The steep-slope issue has been decided. Get over it, and move on"
Let me get this straight. When a body of politics decides something, you prefer to roll over and take it as an everlasting, written in stone edict? For someone who fancies himself a thinker, this is downright dangerous thinking. Good thing Dick Heller in DC or McDonald in Chicago didn't feel the same way when they challenged an out of control government over the 2nd Amendment. The steep slope act, which I accurately cross reference with the proposed tax increase is an attempt at controlling people. No logical train wreck, only an interconnected system of societal inputs that produce a result.
Looky here Mikey. You need to get on the right side of things. Quit trying to play devil's advocate so much. Most of us don't need that unless it is done behind closed doors in a strategy making session. Your morality is tiresome and adds nothing to public virtue except to highlight the fact you enjoy being in the limelight (hearing yourself speak).
If you still insist on being an idiot, plan on the ole D9 cranking up to reduce you to a literary pile of liberal dust. LOL!!
Still want a piece of this?
Your ole pal
Wade
Johnny Rico
Thanks Sark, I appreciate it!
John R.
Any other liberal socialist sheep want a pounding this beatiful Labor Day Weekend?
Johnny Rico
Mike D- If you think the unrest in this country is only about government spending and taxing, I've got news for you. This is about loss of liberty, loss of personal choice and loss of the future. It is about the US Constitution being hijacked by a lecturer with NO real world experience. The spending and tax thing is only part of it.
Sark
"This is about loss of liberty, loss of personal choice and loss of the future. It is about the US Constitution being hijacked by a lecturer with NO real world experience."
I thought that was during the Bush Admin when Dick Cheney was in charge. Torture, suspending habeas corpus, a president appointed by the Supreme Court, Invasion of Iraq, secret prisons. What are you bitchen about?
Liberal socialist sheep POV said:
"Torture, suspending habeas corpus, a president appointed by the Supreme Court, Invasion of Iraq, secret prisons"
Who was tortured? What kind of "torture". What is wrong with interrogating enemy soldiers to save American soldiers? What would you say to the parents of dead American soldiers who might have lived had their antagonists been interogated with proven techniques? Why do you not whine about Mexico and all the third world countries who truly torture their prisoners on a daily basis. Tell you what, idiot, go to Mexico, get busted for using some of that cheap weed you use, and decide not to answer questions and see what happens. Want to bet Van Der Sloot confessed because he was tortured? LOL!!!
President appointed by Supreme Court? Really, what was the vote breakdown? How did this occur? LOL! Getting tough again ain't it?
Invasion of Iraq. What is wrong with this? Al Quaeda and other Muslims in that country needed killing. What Bush did wrong here was not declaring total war on the entire population with victory in mind. Remember, your politically correctness was the reason for the invasion and protracted war. Show me where a precision strike has ever won a war. LOL!! That was easy!
Secret Prisons. If this is such a problem, and I can't understand why it is, then why don't liberal idiots such as yourself whine about "secret prisons" all over the United States during WWII? Nazi scientists and prisoners were held in metropolitan areas for years, yet not a peep from idiots like you. As long as the enemy soldiers are imprisioned or executed, I could care less if it is in secret or not. They are prisoners of war you idiot. Why no word on the American POWs held after Vietnam. You claim to be a Vietnam Vetran (your a coward), but nary a word on your fellow service members who may still be held there this very minute.
They are still finding Jap POWs in Siberia, yet the liberals don't seem interested in THOSE truly secret prisons. Can you say hypocrite? LOL!!
Thanks for the fluff session.
Your ole pal
Richard
Johnny Rico
PS Stings don't it?
LOL!! Just saw all those deleted posts. Excellant. Looks like someone we know got a little hot under the collar. This means I won. I beat you. You let your emotions get the best of you. Ha, ha, ha, ha. You and Liberal POV are the same you whiner of an idiot!! LOL!!!
POV, when will you too run away? I feel sorry for you too. Sorry that your parents didn't know what the words discipline and hard work were!!!
Sark,
I agree and I'd add it's about an administration that has no problem with lying to the American people and a press that is complicit. Unlike Hillary's bogus claim there truly is a vast left-wing conspiracy. It's real and very scary.
However, I don't think that's what Mike D is saying. He seems to be talking about the specific vote in Boone and I don't know the details. The best I can tell Johnny Rico and Mike D voted the same way and are arguing about why people voted the way they did. I'm tempted to say they are both wrong because everyone has their own reason to justify their vote but instead I'll say it's a pointless argument. It's impossible to know all the motivations. One voter may think the law goes to far while another thinks it doesn't go far enough. They both vote no for very different reasons. It doesn't matter. The bickering seems to me to be more personal than anything else, much like Guy Faulkes vs. Bikerbard. Evidently the two-bit blog "Watauga Watch" breeds contempt without settling squat.
Johnny Rico,
Relax, ease up on the chest thumping. They were all yours, notice the time stamps, all 3:48 PM. Once was enough, so I deleted the other seven identical ones. It happens.
H.D- To me it read like an attack on people not in the middle of the road. We are fighting a ruthless and dedicated foe. It is time to fight them politically harder than they fight to overturn the US Constitution. The Republicans, being nice, have allowed two anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court justices to be confirmed without a real fight.
We have liberals in this country thinking Chavez is an OK guy. These same people voted for Obama. Just as Obama moved to make government controlled health care, he will also move to control food as his Leftist buddies have. You control health care and the food supply, you control the people.
Chastise and verbally beat down liberals. They are cowards by nature and will weaken.
"If you think the unrest in this country is only about government spending and taxing, I've got news for you." - Sark
I never said it was the only issue. I said it is the winning issue, as has just been demonstrated with our local referendum, which sparked high voter turnout outside the liberal core at the town center to defeat that core group of 2000 voters who will always turn out to vote in favor of higher taxes. It was all about turnout, and it was all about money.
And if the message doesn't get muddled or polluted, the same thing is going to happen all over the country in a few months.
"Just saw all those deleted posts. Excellant(sic). Looks like someone we know got a little hot under the collar. This means I won. I beat you. You let your emotions get the best of you. Ha, ha, ha, ha." - Johnny Rico
"Johnny Rico, Relax, ease up on the chest thumping. They were all yours, notice the time stamps, all 3:48 PM. Once was enough, so I deleted the other seven identical ones." - Honest Debate
Rico, you are the second dishonest person I have dealt with tonight. I'm going to bed now, and hopefully tomorrow will bring only honest people into my life.
Congratulations on your lie... I mean your victory. Good night, dude.
Sorry, I read "- "Every time you open your mouth..." as Every time you open your mouth"
Honest Debate,
Those were not my posts. Perhaps our friend Mike D(ummy) tried the ole liberal tactic of posting under the enemies name. That's ok, because I was done with him anyway.
Johnny,
Look at the time stamp on the one post I did not delete. It's 3:48PM just like the others. There's no doubt they were yours. Mike D. could not have done it if he tried. You couldn't either. It's some kind of glitch. Like I said, it happens. No harm, no foul.
Roger that Honest Debate, no problem. Keep up this excellant post and we will oust the trogyldyte libertards in November and especially 2012.
John Rico
If it was an honest mistake, I apologize for believing otherwise.
I agree, Rico. Let us bring change in November.
Mike D,
You are a good man
Liberalism is such a LIE
Beck? What an establishment stooge! What a propagandist! What a fraud!
BB,
Is there any substance behind your sentiment or just hate?
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