A Call to Arms for the Committee of 100 | Eastern North Carolina Now

   Publisher's note: Pursuant to the Special Called Meeting for Monday night at 6:00 pm, March 19, 2012, we have received this press release from Beaufort County Employee, Laura Tetterton, to Committee of 100 Members for that aforementioned county commissioner meeting. It does appear, from that short announcement, there is great concern in the EDC ranks that there are entities, here in Beaufort County, that are resolutely against economic development.

   Here below is that Press Release:

Committee Members:

   Tom Richter asked me to send this email to the Committee of 100 members. The annual Economic Development Commission report will be presented to the Beaufort County Commissioners on Monday, March 19th at 6:00 pm in room 101 at the County Office Administrative Building, 121 West 3rd Street. As you are aware certain individuals are opposed to Economic Development and will undoubtedly be there. Please make every effort to attend the meeting and show your support for Economic Development. We ask that you arrive at 5:30 pm. Thank you for your continued support. Enjoy your weekend!

Laura Tetterton
Beaufort County Committee of 100
Beaufort County Economic Development Commission
NC-20 www.NC-20.com

705 Page Road
Washington, NC 27889
Office: (252) 946-3970
Fax: (252) 946-0849
  laura@beaufortedc.com

   What may well be at the heart of the obvious consternation, suggested in Ms. Tetterton's press release - this veritable call to arms - is Beaufort County Citizen Warren Smith. Warren, a retired commodities trader on the Chicago Board of Trade, is Beaufort County's version of Rick Santelli (CNBC correspondent, and a former floor trader as well, whose emblematic rant on the floor of the CME is considered, by many, to have inspired the modern day Tea Party Movement).

   Citizen Smith, on many occasions, has spoken to the Beaufort Commissioners, while also writing prolifically, on the need for fiscal accountability from the tax payer funded economic development commission. To date, there's been spare accountability in this sector of Beaufort County's government.

   Hopefully, from this upcoming Monday night Special Called Meeting, we (the politicians and the public), will form good questions to ask of this most expensive, and historically unproductive sector of Beaufort County's government.
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