Once every couple of years, one stumbles upon a brilliant newspaper article This one, by Gary Glancy of BlueRidgeNow.com, illustrates the tangible change in ambiance across the Buncombe-Henderson County line. It begins:
Henderson County commissioners have voted for the time being to reject participation in a federally funded Sustainable Communities initiative, after the man they appointed to represent the county reported to the board that it is a “rigged, despicable and costly project.”
In short, GroWNC is a program that received $1.6 million from the federal government to help five counties plan and vision how they would develop the next Utopia. In a report to his peers, Commissioner Larry Rogers described the working groups for the Sustainable Communities initiative as environmentalists and extreme environmentalists from Asheville, who are pushing a social agenda.
”Gentlemen, that is the most rigged group of screws I have ever seen in my life,” Rogers said. “They must think we’re brain-dead.”
The last comment referred to the autonomy the county would lose by submitting to the regional collective.
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