It?s pathetic, really, how far this has gone. A story in the Kinston Free Press today starts out like this:

Bruce Parson, former president of the Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce, says the Global TransPark will reinvent the economy.

“The GTP holds great potential for not just our area, but for all of Eastern North Carolina,” Parson said.?

He’s just gotten an $85,000 ?economic development? job at the GTP. He and other officials say that the project needs to maintain its ?momentum,? which includes the recent landing of a ?manufacturing client? in the form of Workhorse Aviation.

I don?t know whether to laugh or cry.