The bill to give Asheville’s water system to the MSD – er a perfect regional authority – continues to fast-track through the General Assembly. Ask not why. A search of Representative Tim Moffitt’s campaign finance reports reveals no contributions from the Underwood Spam guy. He’s probably, as he says, just advocating for his constituents, who would include neighbors who didn’t want to be annexed when Asheville said it was their time, big water users like hospitals and schools who bought into propaganda that the city was secretly plotting to jack rates astronomically, and developers who enjoy building just outside the reach of the city’s powers of double-taxation. Moffitt has proven he knows how to get results, and so my recommendation to my fellow Ashevillians would be to hurry past the denial stage, and deal with the new reality.