
{"id":26809,"date":"2012-07-05T10:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=26809"},"modified":"2012-07-05T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T14:17:08","slug":"letter-chatham-county-and-its-tea-bag-rulers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/07\/05\/letter-chatham-county-and-its-tea-bag-rulers\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Chatham County and its Tea Bag rulers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What ho! The Chatham County Board of Commissioners now has a blossoming Tea Party leader, Brian Bock, who, as chair, exhibits the usual TP retrograde dynamics as he \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and his two supporting stalwarts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c apply their tea-bag philosophy to solve Chatham County problems. Earlier this year, Mr. Bock ventured to untangle the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Occupation Problem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by converting its adherents to become constructive Tea Baggers. Sorry; it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work. Then, in a spurt of cost-cutting, he knocked out the bookmobile, which, of course, was only used by older and retired readers. Tea Party gurus are apparently not too fond of books. Then when Briar Chapel threw in the towel on building houses for low-income families, the Tea Party push was, a la Woody Allen, to take the money and run, in order to keep out these under-achieving groups from the pristine Briar Chapel, where Mr. Guru also has a home, which, of course, had nothing to do with this rather deplorable tea bag of trickery. More recently the name of George Lucier was proposed for a seat on the Environmental Review Committee. Lucier has long experience in local government and is eminently qualified. But George made the mistake of listing his doctorate, when Mr. Bock, like most of us, has only a master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree! But using the usual Tea Party positively negative approach, Mr. Bock gave a spirited but disjointed reason to support a NO vote in which all three of the Tea Baggers displayed their unified \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no-nonsense\u00e2\u20ac\u009d nonsense once again.<\/p>\n<p>I hesitate to say this, but recent reports from Chatham County attest to a significant drop in tea bag sales. Could this be the reason?<\/p>\n<p>William Sommers<br \/>\n<em>Pittsboro<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Brian Bock ventured to untangle the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Occupation Problem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by converting its adherents to become constructive Tea Baggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26810,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26809\/revisions\/26810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}