Coy Privette and a close following of 11 or so puppets have tried to abuse the term conservative republican. They might be registered republicans, but they are far, far away of being conservative — either fiscal or religious. Fiscally, when Privette controlled the majority of commissioners, they depleted local reserves and accumulated vast sums of public debt.
Coy appears to reject the reality of the status quo and live in a reality of his own. This disgraced preacher is an artist at distorting facts and creating false innuendos with a history of using crude attacks to divert attention from himself.
He is religiously conservative in words only. His supporters seem to rejoice and blindly embrace his antics. His recent inflammatory email attack towards our highly-respected Cabarrus County Commissioner Grace Mynatt and others was nicely labeled in the newspapers as “misguided and untruthful comments.”
I call it an “out and out a lie.”
I think our District Attorney should reinstate the Cabarrus County charges related to his false police report and other allegations uncovered by the local investigation. Privette should be prosecuted, convicted and held fully accountable for each misdeed.
He concocted a fairytale about losing his wallet. Then, he tried to implicate hard working, minimum wage food service employees of stealing two blank checks from his wallet while leaving money and credit cards.
I feel Coy is incapable of making wise decisions involve complex and advanced financing? His judgment is placed in question since he entrusted a homeless “lady of the evening” with a signed, blank check – on two separate occasions.
Society has a right to hold public leaders to a higher standard. This disgraced former Baptist preacher continues to fall to new lows in moral and ethical leadership.
Coy, it is time for you to move on.
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13 responses so far ↓
1 Thierry Wernaers // Dec 4, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Amen to that.
“I think our District Attorney should reinstate the Cabarrus County charges related to his false police report and other allegations uncovered by the local investigation.”
I know I’m wearing the tin foil hat a lot lately, but it’s hard to fathom why Coy wasn’t prosecuted for this. It would have been a felony and his career would have been over. I sure would love to have been a fly on the wall in Vaneekhoven’s office….
2 Justin Thibault // Dec 5, 2007 at 8:32 am
Thierry - Right now, there’s a capital case involving a mother that incinerated her two children alive in an arson.
I’d rather a DA get justice for these two kids than go after some inconsequential political has-been on a low-grade felony.
I’m sure our friend Mr. McBroom could speak to the fact that everyone doesn’t get pegged on every charge they’re guilty of.
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4 Thierry Wernaers // Dec 5, 2007 at 11:12 am
That Child Killer wasn’t even on the judicial radar yet when the Coy case came up.
Don’t you think it would be great to hear the reasoning of our republican DA as to why she didn’t want to prosecute a very prominent republican politician for a felony?? I’ve never heard the reasoning behind that, have you?
5 Justin Thibault // Dec 5, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Thierry - Wow, your desire for criminal punishment is almost conservative! Explore that feeling. Now you know how Republicans feel about all of the “rehabilitation” programs Democrats try to shove into the system…or how they felt when Ted Kennedy got off the hook for Chappaquiddick.
From a personal and theoretical standpoint - I think people should be punished for felonies. Period.
From a practical standpoint, we spend so much money on things other than police and courts that DAs have to make choices like this. Should the DA go after hardened criminals that are out to actually hurt people or should they divert resources to prosecute a felony charge on some septuagenarian first-time offender?
6 Aaron // Dec 5, 2007 at 2:29 pm
That’s exactly why he wasn’t prosecuted for the “felonies.” More to the point “filing a false police report” is another misdemeanor charge so no, his career wouldn’t have ended.
Plea Barganing is the status quo in North Carolina thanks primarily to the afore mentioned rehabilitation programs and our democrat controlled state governments phobia of building prisons.
Things will only get worse from a state standpoint. That’s yet another reason I’m in favor of the size of the new jail. Once (if ever) it’s finished it will allow judges to give active sentences to first time and small time offenses and help deter folks from commiting future, bigger offenses.
I’ve been mocked for that opinion before but to date, our counties success rates with only community corrections are below 50%. There are no reasons to stay out of trouble if the worst they can give you is an extention of the probation you weren’t following in the first place.
I can assure you that no special treatment was given to Coy. It was just another of thousands of plea bargains given out each year.
In this state, you really have to pick the hill you want to die on and a few more misdemeanors and a felony that will undoubtedly get plead down to a misdemeanor aren’t worth the precious few dollars we have for our criminal justice system…
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8 Justin Thibault // Dec 6, 2007 at 8:47 am
It’s amazing we can’t find the money for those or roads; but we can make huge incentive deals with companies who lay people off like Goodyear to stay in the state.
9 Steve Smith // Dec 6, 2007 at 1:26 pm
You guys have got to stop beating this dead horse. Coy Privitte is no longer a factor in Cabarrus County whatsoever.
10 Justin Thibault // Dec 6, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Steve -
Really? You know the big brouhaha over the roads around the Speedway being an “incentive”. Who do you think made that premature leak? The only people who had that information were the Chamber, the Board of Commissioners, and the County Manager.
Also, you may have not noticed; but the John Locke Foundation is paying particular attention to matters in Cabarrus County. It might have to do with the fact that their strongest ally in Cabarrus County is - you guessed it - Coy Privette. He was even on the cover of the July Carolina Journal.
He’s having an influence still even though it’s more subtle; but it’s still dangerous.
11 Aaron // Dec 6, 2007 at 3:12 pm
“It’s amazing we can’t find the money for those or roads; but we can make huge incentive deals with companies who lay people off like Goodyear to stay in the state.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself…
12 xyzam // Dec 9, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Someone stated: “I think our District Attorney should reinstate the Cabarrus County charges related to his false police report and other allegations uncovered by the local investigation.”
If the charges were filed in Rowan County, how do you propose charges be initiated by the Cabarrus County DA?
13 Justin Thibault // Dec 10, 2007 at 6:26 am
xyzam - From my recollection, the prostitution happened in Rowan County. The bad checks were passed off in Cabarrus County.