What ho! The Chatham County Board of Commissioners now has a blossoming Tea Party leader, Brian Bock, who, as chair, exhibits the usual TP retrograde dynamics as he – and his two supporting stalwarts – apply their tea-bag philosophy to solve Chatham County problems. Earlier this year, Mr. Bock ventured to untangle the “Occupation Problem†by converting its adherents to become constructive Tea Baggers. Sorry; it didn’t work. Then, in a spurt of cost-cutting, he knocked out the bookmobile, which, of course, was only used by older and retired readers. Tea Party gurus are apparently not too fond of books. Then when Briar Chapel threw in the towel on building houses for low-income families, the Tea Party push was, a la Woody Allen, to take the money and run, in order to keep out these under-achieving groups from the pristine Briar Chapel, where Mr. Guru also has a home, which, of course, had nothing to do with this rather deplorable tea bag of trickery. More recently the name of George Lucier was proposed for a seat on the Environmental Review Committee. Lucier has long experience in local government and is eminently qualified. But George made the mistake of listing his doctorate, when Mr. Bock, like most of us, has only a master’s degree! But using the usual Tea Party positively negative approach, Mr. Bock gave a spirited but disjointed reason to support a NO vote in which all three of the Tea Baggers displayed their unified “no-nonsense†nonsense once again.
I hesitate to say this, but recent reports from Chatham County attest to a significant drop in tea bag sales. Could this be the reason?
William Sommers
Pittsboro
I am shocked and surprised the Carrboro Citizen allowed this letter in using once again the insulting term “tea baggers” We all know this is an ugly term for homosexuals and it is an insult. I am not a member of the Tea Party but a moderate who does think both sides need to behave. The county BOC in Chatham did the best they could with the budget. The book mobile is an albatross that is hardly used and very expensive. This BOC got in on a majority vote and is doing a good job in the county and even being applauded by some Democrats as easy to work with and good compromisers.
Even though Mr. Sommers is unhappy with some decisions does not give him the right to slander elected officials. They are Republicans but not Tea Party members in the first place but he couls have avoided hateful terms.