Joe Coladarci, Rowan County Commission Candidate from High Rock Lake, NC
♦ I was a basketball player in another life and the meeting I attend at the Trolley Barn on Thursday morning reminded me of the old sport adage “fake one way, go the other way”. The agenda was set the day Mr. Paul Fisher made the Trolley Barn available to this Agenda 21, Sustainable Cities, Thread Trail, Salisbury First, Last, and Always group. You would think with the title Rowan Visioning Forum we would hear about our whole county. You know like Faith, China Grove or maybe Spencer, Cleveland or something about the 70,000 or 80,000 folks who choose to live in the unincorporated County. Instead we heard Salisbury needs this and Salisbury could do that. When the title doesn’t match the program it might be time to check your wallet and make sure none of your children are missing.
There were the typical Salisbury First, Last, and Always show focusing on the Salisbury created villain Jim Sides and the sustainable future. The leader Ed McMahon deftly used visual aids and the sustainable future talk. I want you all to understand this kind of event was taught in the 60’s by lefty activists like Saul Alinsky in dimly lit Chicago warehouses. Later used by the radical environmental groups in the 70’s and 80’s, and more recently by Acorn. Well folks its now found its way to Rowan County. Now understand some at this meeting were part of the Sustainable Cities, Agenda 21 crowd, but other attendees are just stuck with worthless property in a downtown these same people mismanaged for the last 20 years.
Mayor Woodson first words were thank us for our “successful” Fibrant (Acknowledged by anyone who can read a budget as a massive failure) and it was one blue sky statement after another. The owners of the Empire Hotel and others with their trust funds tied to empty stores and offices were most enthusiastic about the plan to divert all county resources to Salisbury. These fine folks realize that with annexation no longer an option to keep feeding the pig that desperately needs money (preferably other people’s money). The least we can do is have the School Board buy a lot from a private citizen for how much money no one knows. When is someone going to say stop and follow the money? Is there really any property in downtown worth more than a few thousand dollars? I am saying: “the Emperor has no clothes”.
