Chatham Conservative Voice, Americans for Prosperity Announce Partnership

[ChathamConservativeVoice]

http://www.chathamconservativevoice.org/pressrelease.html  (To read the entire article click this link.)

(Pittsboro, NC) The North Carolina Chapter of the national free-market grassroots group, Americans For Prosperity (AFP-NC), and the Chatham Conservative Voice (CCV) today announced they are joining forces. The partnership will make Chatham County taxpayers more powerful in the fight for lower taxes and lower levels of government spending and regulation in Pittsboro, Raleigh, and Washington, DC.

The Chatham Conservative Voice has taken the lead in the fight against new taxes and irresponsible spending in Chatham County.

"It has become clear that Chatham County is ground zero for property rights in North Carolina," said AFP-NC State Director Francis De Luca. "There clearly is a need for an enhanced organization fighting for property rights and for individual freedom."

Under the partnership plan, the Voice will operate as an affiliate of Americans for Prosperity. The Voice will continue to be governed and operated by its own set of by-laws and Board of Directors. Its goal continues to be protecting the freedoms of Chatham County citizens.

AFP-NC will provide Chatham taxpayers with intellectual ammunition in the battle for economic freedom. It also will provide, to the Voice, its national best-in-field grassroots training schools, as well as communications, marketing, and public policy support.

Last summer, AFP-NC launched an extensive issue campaign to inform the public about twelve state legislators who broke their pledge to not raise taxes in the state legislature. Concerned taxpayers responded with notable results. Seven of those pledge breakers, one of whom was the assistant majority leader, were defeated.

http://www.chathamconservativevoice.org/

[gonewest]

Oh joy!

[settled]

I am going to sleep so much better now! I know this new partnership is going to do get things for Chatham!

[gonewest]

Yes, considering how much the conservatives have done for us as a nation the past 6 years...I can't wait.

How many BILLIONS are unaccounted for in IRAQ?

[Gene Galin]

Keep it chathamcentric or we'll be moving it to the Anything else section!

[chrstnhsbndfthr]

We should all be interested in creating an environment of prosperity.  The fact that we are losing $12 MILLION dollars in retail sales taxes that could be brought home should concern us all.  This is $550 million dollars lost from our local economy that would mean jobs, less commuting, more convenience, and better services from government. (Okay, that last is a stretch, it will mean more money for government without increasing tax rates on our citizens. Whether government does better with it than it has everything else they have taken from us is anyone's guess)

Governments do not create prosperity. They allow it.  People create products, develop technology, grow food, etc.  The concept of AFP appears to be allowing the system to work.  Sure, I would stipulate that there are bad actors in corporations.  There are also bad people in government.  I am sure we all know about the congressman with $90k in marked bills from the FBI in his freezer.  But the vast majority of people try to earn an honest living. This entrepreneurial spirit creates wealth and jobs. A rising tide lifts all boats.  Through this spirit, the poorest American's typically have a car, a color TV and air conditioning.    Looking toward those who believe in greater government control and intervention, like Russia, China, Cuba, etc, are any of their poor as well off? 

Freedom should not be regarded as a radical concept. It should be celebrated and encouraged.  Please understand that I know we are never going back to the 5% of wages going to government era.  But I want to avoid the 100% going to government. I believe that every step we take in that direction further deprives our poorest citizens of the opportunity to advance their lives.

I have repeatedly challenged people to tell me, since 50% is not enough of your money going to government, (Those of you advocating for these tax increases) then how much is enough? 75% 100%?

At what point do you think instead of lifting all boats, we sink our boat?

[Clyde]

"Looking toward those who believe in greater government control and intervention, like Russia, China, Cuba, etc, are any of their poor as well off? "

who specifically are you talking about and are your comments representative of these combined organizations? 90k in some democrats freezer is far from being the worst of the "bad people"  Haliburton wouldn't walk to the freezer for 90k.

[Analyst]

Chr...

If you want to look for waste in County government let me give you a hint:

LOOK AT THE FIRE DISTRICTS.

Look first at the North Chatham Fire District with a budget of $1.7M and then go to Pittsboro.

Get off your duff and do some public records requests. The North Chatham firehouse across from Fearrington has a first class gym with very professional weight lifting equpment as well as wide screen TV and a great barbeque grill on the patio of the station.  The question is "is any of this body building equipment" really used and should the gym not be open to the community since it was funded by tax dollars.

They have a constant stream of tax dollars and little to no oversight of their expenditures.

Go for it you may hit pay dirt in waste and abuse.

A

[Wahoo]

If you want to see real waste , take a look at the schools utility cost, lighting, HVAC etc.    I could live a good life on their waste.

Also at one time the county was  renting coping machines from a vendor who was making a killing from each copy. The schools were paying more out in one month than a copy machine cost. I was told because it cost so much to fix them when they broke. My answer was to trash them when they broke , we could buy a new machine evey month for the price we were renting.

If only I were in charge of the check book.

[peacefulcapitalist]

So does that mean the Chatham Conservative Voice shares Americans for Prosperity's view on how we should elect commissioners?

(people who are paying attention may recall that AFP backed the Wake Commissioners over the school board in a recent fight, and cited the fact that the Wake commissioners are elected countywide, instead of by district like those special-interest school board members, as a reason they have more credibility)

[peacefulcapitalist]

I wonder why Chatham Conservative voice had to bring in a Wake County organization to prop them up give them some support?  After all the Coalition did everything it did using local, in-county, grassroots support, with little to no help from out of the county.  Why can't the Conservative voice use its own in-county grassroots support to try to accomplish the same thing?

[Big Mo]

I wonder why Chatham Conservative voice had to bring in a Wake County organization to prop them up give them some support? 

Actually Americans for Prosperity is a NATIONAL organization with a very strong North Carolina presence.  It has been very active in several of the political issues in Wake County, but it is NOT a "Wake County organization".   It is an organization that supports and works for many (but not all!) of the issues of interest to the Chatham Conservative Voice.  We look forward to working with them. 

[gonewest]

I sure would like to see some of these things taken off this page and in to question form at a BOE or BOC meeting?

Why is everyone so hesitant to air the laundry?

I'll tell you why.  Several years ago someone came to me, a volunteer fireman, and asked me to "look into the money being spent by the North Chatham fire dept. including the new pick ups they drove for their personal use."  Well, I started looking into it and there was some pretty hefty expenditures that weren't about fighting fires.

I then poked a little too close and was told by another "friend" of my husbands that I had better back off because it would be a shame if my house caught on fire and no one was there to put it out?  Threat?  You figure.

I backed off.

And if you speak out about the school situations in the wrong way....well, that can be worse than your house burning down.

[chathamartist]

I sure would like to see some of these things taken off this page and in to question form at a BOE or BOC meeting?

Sounds like a good first project for the new conservative group.  After all they are for fiscal responsibility.

[NC YIPPIE]

Maybe they are too busy planning their strategy to oppose the corporate welfare being offered to ISP?   

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