I promised more on Guilford County’s crooked county line politics, and here it is.
The Rhino’s John Hammer can’t understand why any commissioner would vote to simply hand tax base over to neighboring Alamance County, much less a unanimous board:
Is seems as if the Guilford County commissioners experienced some kind of mass hallucination because the vote was unanimous. What possible good does it do for Guilford County citizens to have the commissioners give land away so that there is less money in the county budget? The commissioners should be trying to build the tax base, not give it away.
I have certainly seen some incredibly dumb moves made by elected bodies in the past 21 years, but giving away land and tax base simply because people don’t want to pay taxes rivals closing a perfectly good landfill because some people who bought homes near the landfill decided one day they would rather not live near a landfill and moving was a lot of trouble.
The vote makes Hammer long for the days of former Commission Chairman Skip Alston:
This group needs help. Maybe Alston will come back and give them some seminars on how government works. At least Alston had a philosophy of government and his decisions made sense. I didn’t agree with a lot of them, but Alston understood the issues and knew what he was doing.
Make no mistake that’s saying something. Alston’s still very much on the scene; in fact the Rhino reported Alston scrapped with former City Council member Goldie Wells over his plan to redevelop East Greensboro’s Bessemer Center. Look for him to resurface –somewhere.
