Comments on: OLD SCHOOL: Messages From and To the Mayor https://capecharleswave.com/2013/11/old-school-messages-from-and-to-the-mayor/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Gabriel Southern https://capecharleswave.com/2013/11/old-school-messages-from-and-to-the-mayor/#comment-26171 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:07:00 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=10227#comment-26171 Reading the news from afar, the Old School Cape Charles case reminds me of the “Kelo v. City of New London” case in Connecticut, where the city used eminent domain to take away land from home owners to give to private developers. The city spent nearly a decade contesting appeals from homeowners and eventually won in the U.S. Supreme Court. However, after the city’s legal victory, and after the city and state spent nearly $80 million dollars acquiring land to give to developers, the developers backed out of the project and today the land is still vacant.

One of the attorneys who opposed the land giveaway noted that: “What cities should take from this is to run fleeing from what New London did and do economic development that is market-driven and incorporate properties of folks who are truly committed to their neighborhood and simply want to be a part of what happens.” Unfortunately, it appears that the town officials in Cape Charles have failed to heed that advice.

]]> By: Wayne Creed https://capecharleswave.com/2013/11/old-school-messages-from-and-to-the-mayor/#comment-26156 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:58:10 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=10227#comment-26156 “Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It’s corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.” –Paul Ryan

Small-town economics apparently is not much different. The lies, fraud, incompetence, malfeasance, all in the name of improving the town by lining pockets of third-rate circuit-riding carpet baggers frames the most grotesque and appalling abuse ever perpetrated on citizens of the Eastern Shore.

Coming from the person who has driven the Town 10 million dollars into debt (again, who exactly has benefited from this abuse? Certainly not the blokes on Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe), makes the charade that much more rich.

Oh, and rumors of OSCC’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The fight for truth, justice, and inclusion has just begun. The Mayor’s obtuse language, couched in the letter, reminds me of Orwell’s indictment, “Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“Enough!” they said. “Never!” we say.

]]> By: Deborah Bender https://capecharleswave.com/2013/11/old-school-messages-from-and-to-the-mayor/#comment-26154 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:31:48 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=10227#comment-26154 No, Marita! This town is bent on allowing the destruction of the oldest stage and public building in this county. An apartment building in the park is stupid. My husband has lived here his entire life and we are totally against this giveaway. The people running this tiny town have gotten it over 10 million dollars in debt — and you really think they know what they are doing? I doubt you are from here, so you couldn’t possibly know what it feels like to have your town being destroyed and run into millions of dollars of debt by people who have no roots in this community and will probably move away when they are done destroying the town.

]]> By: Marita Patterson https://capecharleswave.com/2013/11/old-school-messages-from-and-to-the-mayor/#comment-26152 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:41:36 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=10227#comment-26152 Enough. Can’t you folks find another project on which to expend your energy and money?

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