Cabarrus Cheap Seats

This blog turns three today.

Should this blog last another year, it would have been in service for longer than the majority of County Commissioners have been on the Cabarrus County Board.  Probably the same for the school board.

I’m looking forward - let’s look back

3 Years Ago: The obvious thing is to look at the first post:

For my first post, I figured I’d tackle something that has been bugging me and other people in my community. The website of Harold Smith. More specifically the content of the site.

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The posts that would follow would be largely responses to what Harold wrote.  The funny part about that - Harold Smith didn’t discover the site until I sent him and a number of other candidates an e-mail requesting their response to a series of questions in August.  For three months, this site had been giving his opposition ammo without him knowing about it!

The weirdest thing from 3 years ago.  My second post in 2005 was about light rail to the Speedway.  Almost three years to the day, Tony Hooker writes about…light rail to the speedway.

2 Years Ago: I linked to a rather poignant piece from Ben Stein on Memorial Day.  We were in another budget debate, and Harold Smith had the funniest fabrication - he claimed that John Day had a secret slush fund.  You can read more here.

1 Year Ago:  The Harris Road Middle Odyssey Of The Mind Team placed fifth in their division in the World Finals.

Some other stuff was going on.  The Thursday before - I’d just been elected as Treasurer of the Cabarrus County Republican Men’s Club.  In spite of Coy’s efforts to fix the election, the normal people in the Party came through and got some people on the Board.  The people we elected into the minority would go on to save the club.

And this is interesting, in early June: Coy Privette sent in an op-ed to the Kannapolis Citizen on the North Carolina Research Campus TIF - the response that I wrote in the Friday Five on June 15 would be the basis of my counter op-ed in the Citizen on June 21.  Coy and his gang tried to counter my response; but the editor would only allow a point and then a counter-point.  Coy then had the Cabarrus Taxpayers’ Association take out an ad.  The ad wound up under a Coy’s police blotter entry for soliciting prostitution.

Now:  So, it’s up to y’all to keep this crazy train rolling.