https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/today-s-farmer-takes-the-bribe-tomorrow-s-generations-wear-the-chains-reasons-to-vote-no-on-open-s Submitted by Janice Parker "NOTE: The bribe money for farmers to continue farming is coming out of the pocket of other land owners who get nothing. Only globalist NGOs like Conserving Carolina benefit from this deal." Reasons to vote NO on any "Open Space" Bond. Reason #1. Conservation easements don't "protect", they RESTRICT. Proponents keep you focused on the horror of huge out of state developers. But short-sightedness and good intentions can be fatal. Conservation easements also restrict any "non-agricultural commercial use". That, my friend, includes small family businesses: Your daughter loves German Shepherds and wants to build a kennel to raise, train and sell them? Can't do it! Son is a bike enthusiast and wants to open a bike shop? Conserving Carolina says NO! Mom is a great cook who wants to open a local cafe? Or a talented quilter who wants to open a quilt shop? No way! She's a virus in the earth! What about a Tai-kwan-do academy on the property? A day care center? A Christian School? No, no, HELL NO! Reason #2. These easements are FOREVER. Today's farmer receives the bribe money; tomorrow's generations wear the chains. Reason #3. Those pushing the bond have a history consistent and similar to the First Plank of Communist Manifesto: Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes. For example, Chuck McGrady. He's a past president of the National Sierra Club, Conserving Carolina, and Friends of DuPont Forest: The Sierra Club exists solely for public control of land. Conserving Carolina has befuddled land owners into giving them 50,000+ acres, with no end in sight. Friends of DuPont Forest forced Jim Anthony to sell his land to the State. The Trust for Public Land. The name speaks for itself. Friends, if these people are for it, I'm agin' it! Reason #4 - Warnings from our wise Founding Founders: Thomas Jefferson: "The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management." He added "the defense of private property is the standard by which every provision of law, past and present, shall be judged." James Madison: "Government is instituted to protect property. It is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where [there are] arbitrary restrictions." Alexander Hamilton: "In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence [i.e., property] amounts to a power over his will." (Emphasis Hamilton's) Legally PROTECTED property rights with their accompanying private enterprise opportunities have been the greatest wealth generator in history. They are the well-spring of America's freedom and greatness. Legally RESTRICTED property rights heads us back towards the European serfdom that we fought against 250 years ago. Earnestly, Janice Parker Hendersonville NCP.S. It's not for no reason that God says "Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbor's" and "Thou shalt not steal". "Easement" is such a gentle, non-threatening term, right? But it's really coveters easing their way in, gaining control, entangling their way into our lives. Sources: https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/16333-farmland-bond-supporters-kick-off-campaign-wednesday.html https://www.sierraclub.org/policy/public-land-exchange “The Sierra Club prefers public acquisition of land”https://conservingcarolina.org/we-did-it-50000-acres-and-counting/https://www.tpl.org/ The Trust for Public Land, National Office, 23 Geary St. Ste 1000, San Francisco, California 94108 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020%3A17&version=KJV The Bible, Exodus 20:19. Here's the ballot measure: NOTE: The bribe money for farmers to continue farming is coming out of the pocket of other land owners who get nothing. Only globalist NGOs like Conserving Carolina benefit from this deal. I hope people wake up.Submitted by Jan Parker ATP: Vote No on the Bond: Here's why: https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/henderson-county-open-space-preservation-bond-vote-no

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Reference: Appendix B: Supporting Reference Materials for Model Laws https://www.modelelectionlaws.org/appendix-a--how-to-use-this-resource Appendix B.1 – Only Citizens Participate in U.S. Elections in Any Manner Key federal statutes and authorities National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), 52 U.S.C. § 20501 et seq. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title52/subtitle2/chapter205&edition=prelim Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), 52 U.S.C. § 20901 et seq. https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title52/subtitle2/chapter209&edition=prelim Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 – § 656. https://www.congress.gov/104/crpt/hrpt828/CRPT-104hrpt828.pdf REAL ID Act of 2005; Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations (6 C.F.R. Part 37). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-16376/pdf/COMPS-16376.pdf U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) SAVE Program. https://www.uscis.gov/save Social Security Act § 205(r) – Death Master File. https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title02/0205.htm 18 U.S.C. § 611 – Voting by aliens. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611 52 U.S.C. § 10307 – Voting fraud and related offenses. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/10307 2025–2026 federal legislation support Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act (H.R. 22, 119th Congress) – requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for federal voter registration (passed House April 10, 2025). https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22/text Selected state statutes and models Kansas SAFE Act – proof‑of‑citizenship and ID. https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/ksa_ch25.html Alabama photo ID and citizenship provisions. https://law.justia.com/codes/alabama/title-17/chapter-9/article-2/section-17-9-30/ Arizona Prop 200, H.B. 2243 – citizenship verification. https://www.recorder.pima.gov/images/prop200_text.pdf Georgia S.B. 202 – ID and registration changes. https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/201121 Georgia S.B. 202 (2021 Election Integrity Act) – restricts ballot drop boxes to one per 100,000 registered voters, requires indoor placement at early-voting sites only (available only during early-voting hours), and imposes photo ID for absentee ballots. Key provisions upheld in federal court in 2025. Enrolled bill text: https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20212022/201498 Missouri Const. Amendment 6. https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Elections/2024GeneralElectionBallotMeasures.pdf North Dakota election rules (no registration; strict residency/ID). https://ndlegis.gov/cencode/t16-1c01.pdf Texas Election Code, tit. 2 (citizenship affirmation & ID). https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.13.htm Wyoming House Bill 156 (2025) / House Enrolled Act 57 – requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship and 30-day Wyoming residency for voter registration (effective July 1, 2025; one of the strictest statewide requirements). Official summary and text: https://sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Legislation/2025.aspx Bill text: https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0156 South Dakota Senate Bill 175 (2026) – requires proof of U.S. citizenship for new voter registrations (signed March 2026; applies to first-time registrants and those removed from rolls; does not affect already-registered voters). Bill information: https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/27075 State laws on foreign spending in ballot‑measure campaigns. https://ballotpedia.org/Laws_governing_foreign_spending_in_ballot_measure_campaigns Key court decisions Crawford v. Marion County Election Bd., 553 U.S. 181 (2008). https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/181/ Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council (ITCA), 570 U.S. 1 (2013). https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-71 Fish v. Kobach, 840 F.3d 710 (10th Cir. 2016). https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca10/16-3147/16-3147-2016-10-19.html League of Women Voters v. Newby (D.C. Cir. 2016). https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-dc-circuit/1748970.html Brnovich v. DNC, 594 U.S. ___ (2021). https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1257_g204.pdf Reports and model resources Heritage Foundation – citizenship and proof‑of‑citizenship analyses. https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity Public Interest Legal Foundation – “Alien Invasion” series. https://publicinterestlegal.org/research/ Honest Elections Project – 2024 reform report (citizenship section). https://honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/HEP_2024-Election-Reform-Report_v4.pdf American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Statement of Principles on Legislative Oversight. https://alec.org/model-policy/statement-of-principles-on-legislative-oversight/ Resolution to Restore Citizenship on United States Census. https://alec.org/model-policy/resolution-to-include-citizenship-on-united-states-census/ Only Citizens Vote Model Policy https://alec.org/model-policy/only-citizens-vote-model-policy/ Citizen Only Voting Amendment https://alec.org/model-policy/citizen-only-voting-amendment/ U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) – HAVA resources. https://www.eac.gov/about/help_america_vote_act.aspx National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) – voter ID & proof‑of‑citizenship database. https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Election Data & Science Lab – research library. https://electionlab.mit.edu/research

States with “Only Citizens Vote” Laws As of 2026, at least 13 states and Guam have enacted laws requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, and eight states have amended their constitutions to explicitly ban noncitizen voting National Conference of State Legislatures+1. Constitutional Amendments Eight states have approved ballot measures amending their constitutions to state that only U.S. citizens may vote: Alabama Colorado Florida Louisiana North Dakota Ohio Iowa (76% approval in 2024) Kentucky (62% approval in 2024) Missouri Oklahoma South Carolina Wisconsin Federation for American Immigration Reform These amendments remove legal ambiguity and make the citizenship requirement part of the state’s foundational law. Statutory Laws Requiring Proof of Citizenship According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 13 states and Guam have passed legislation requiring documentary proof of citizenship at some point in the voter registration process National Conference of State Legislatures. These laws vary in: When proof is required (at registration, during a renewal, or via other triggers) What documents are accepted (e.g., passport, birth certificate, naturalization certificate) How proof is verified (e.g., through DMV records for REAL ID purposes) Some of these laws have been challenged in court and may not be in force National Conference of State Legislatures. Other Approaches Some states have not enacted explicit constitutional or statutory proof-of-citizenship laws but instead: Use voter list audits and existing state data (e.g., DMV records) to confirm citizenship National Conference of State Legislatures. Require voters to swear under penalty of perjury that they are U.S. citizens votingrightslab.org. Key Takeaways Constitutional amendments: 12 states (including IA, KY, MO, NC, OK, SC, WI, AL, CO, FL, LA, ND, OH) Federation for American Immigration Reform. Statutory proof-of-citizenship laws: 13 states + Guam National Conference of State Legislatures. These measures are part of a broader trend of restrictive voting laws, but they specifically target ensuring only U.S. citizens can vote. For the most current and detailed list, the NCSL’s Legislative Approaches to Ensuring Only Citizens Vote page provides a state-by-state breakdown National Conference of State Legislatures.

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/homers-odyssey-and-the-future-of-education-6080303 Commentary What is education for? Modern education has become remarkably good at answering secondary questions. What skills do students need? What information should they acquire? How should their performance be measured? A curriculum built around standardized testing can tell you whether a student can solve a quadratic equation or identify a topic sentence. It has little to say about what that student should love, or what kind of life is worth living. The ancient world began with a more fundamental question: What kind of person should education produce? The Greek word paideia described this larger task: the formation of the human person through intellectual, moral, aesthetic, and civic education. At the center of Greek paideia stood not a textbook or technical manual, but a poet: Homer. This should make us reconsider what stories do. A lecture can tell students that courage is good. A story can make them admire courage. A teacher can define fidelity; Homer makes us wait 20 years with Penelope. A philosopher can explain the dangers of uncontrolled appetite; the “Odyssey” shows Odysseus’s companions slaughtering the cattle of Helios despite knowing the deadly consequences. Propositions instruct the intellect. Stories educate our loves. This is why Plato famously called Homer the educator of Greece. Greek children encountered language, religion, honor, courage, hospitality, family, and civic responsibility through the “Iliad” and “Odyssey.” Homer provided a gallery of human possibilities. Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and the suitors allowed generations of readers to ask which kinds of lives deserved admiration. Plato’s Warning That extraordinary formative power troubled Plato. In the “Republic,” Plato challenges the poets precisely because poetry can shape the soul before philosophical reason has learned to govern it. Poetry is mimesis, imitation, and can encourage audiences to mistake appearances for reality. Worse, it moves the emotions. We can learn to sympathize with grief, rage, lust, and injustice before reason has judged whether these responses are appropriate. Plato’s objection is an educational insight: If stories form our loves, we had better be careful which stories we tell. In an age that has reduced art to entertainment it is worth taking his worry far more seriously. Homer is also the poet who makes the wrath of Achilles compelling, who lingers over the glamour of battle, who lets the suitors’ appetite for feasting and courtship look, for long stretches, like simple vitality. A story that can teach a reader to admire courage can just as easily teach a reader to admire domination, so long as domination is described with enough appeal. Plato’s fear was not that poetry would fail to move us. It was that poetry would move us before we are equipped to judge whether we should be moved. Aristotle agreed about poetry’s power but disagreed with Plato’s conclusion. In the “Poetics,” he argues that imitation is natural to human beings and fundamental to learning. More importantly, poetry can reveal universals. History tells us what a particular person actually did; poetry reveals what a certain kind of person might characteristically do according to probability or necessity. The poet and philosopher can therefore address the same realities through different modes. This does not dismiss Plato’s worry as much as sharpen it. If poetry can form loves in either direction, then the case for reading Homer cannot rest merely on the claim that stories are formative. The case has to rest on a further claim—that the “Odyssey,” read well, exposes disordered love rather than simply modeling it. Odysseus dissembles, but in order to disguise and discern. We do not admire Odysseus’s companions for eating the cattle of Helios; the poem shows the wreck that follows. The suitors are not held up as models of appetite well spent; they die for it. Homer’s poetry survives Plato’s challenge not because his poetry is safe, but because it largely makes disorder visible as disorder rather than dressing it up as glory. It still depends on how capably his text is read and taught; it is not a guarantee built into the form of his story. The “Odyssey” remains educational because we are not merely learning what supposedly happened to one Greek king. We encounter permanent patterns of human existence: temptation, suffering, fidelity, pride, hospitality, fatherhood, marriage, mortality, recognition, and homecoming. From Paideia to Humanitas Rome inherited the Greek educational tradition and translated it into the ideal of humanitas, particularly associated with Cicero. Humanitas incorporated Greek paideia—cultivation through literature, philosophy, rhetoric, and the liberal arts—but joined education to philanthrōpia: humane conduct, generosity, and concern for others. This connection is crucial. The educated person was not simply the person who knew things. Learning was supposed to produce a particular kind of human being. Christianity inherited this classical tradition and further honed it. The classical world had identified four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, courage, and temperance. Christianity did not discard them. The Christian tradition incorporated them within a different understanding of the human person’s ultimate end. The natural virtues of man were now ordered toward the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity—virtues whose final object is God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Courage, therefore, could no longer mean merely heroic prowess or contempt for death. It could mean martyrdom, long-suffering, forgiveness, and self-sacrifice. Justice could not be confined to giving fellow citizens their due; Christ’s command to love one’s neighbor extended even to the stranger and enemy. Temperance became more than mastery of appetite; desire itself had to be reordered. Prudence was no longer merely successful practical calculation, but wisdom directed toward humanity’s ultimate good. Augustine and the Education of Love Augustine gave this synthesis one of its most powerful formulations through the ordo amoris—the order of love. For Augustine, the moral problem is not simply that human beings desire evil things. Frequently we desire genuine goods—pleasure, knowledge, honor, wealth, friendship, family—but love them disproportionately or place lesser goods above greater ones. Virtue consequently requires rightly ordered love. This provides a remarkable bridge back to Homer. Odysseus encounters precisely this problem throughout his journey. The Sirens offer knowledge and glory; Calypso offers pleasure and immortality; his companions desire food; the suitors desire wealth, power, and Penelope. Many of these objects are not intrinsically evil. The disorder arises because they are desired without proper measure or outside their proper relationships. Augustine universalizes Homer’s insight. Education must teach not merely how to think but how to love. The theological virtues provide the final orientation of that love: faith identifies the highest reality, hope directs desire toward its ultimate fulfillment, and charity orders every lesser love toward God and neighbor. The Moral Imagination This is what literature contributes to education: the formation of the moral imagination. Stories allow us to inhabit consequences before experiencing them ourselves. We watch Paris choose Aphrodite rather than Athena. We see Odysseus reject immortality with Calypso for a mortal life with Penelope. Literature makes moral order visible—when the reader has been taught to see disorder as disorder rather than mistake it for glamour. That qualification is not incidental. It is what separates Homer taught as a means of forming virtue from Homer the way that he has recently been depicted in Christopher Nolan’s film, as violent entertainment and disordered guilt, and it is why the teaching of these texts is the real site of paideia. What Contemporary Education Has Lost This exposes a weakness at the heart of contemporary education. Schools and universities justify themselves through superficial marks of competence such as “measurable outcomes”: literacy, numeracy, technical competence, credentials, employability, and economic productivity. But even competence cannot tell us what competence is for. We can teach students genetic engineering without determining when it should be used. We can teach persuasive communication without asking whether the cause being advocated is true. We can teach artificial intelligence without asking what human intelligence is for. Our civilization has strengthened our capacity even while sabotaging the humanities as the ends toward which those means should be directed. That is the difference between skills and wisdom. Homer still belongs in liberal education because he asks questions that technological progress cannot render obsolete. I have asked these questions throughout this series. What should we love? What do parents owe children and children their parents? What makes a marriage faithful? What does the host owe the stranger? When must desire be restrained? What is honor? What distinguishes justice from vengeance? How should we face mortality? What does it mean to come home? Paideia and Our Age of Artificial Intelligence The future of education will possess technologies that Homer could never have imagined. Artificial intelligence may provide information, translation, explanation, and technical competence almost instantaneously. That makes the slow road of paideia more necessary, not less. Consider a student learning to write with the help of an AI system that can draft, revise, and polish prose on request. A purely skills-based education can teach that student how to prompt the system effectively, how to evaluate its output for accuracy, how to integrate it into a workflow. None of that requires asking what the writing is for—whether the student is using the tool to think more clearly or to avoid thinking at all, whether the essay serves truth or mere persuasion. And it never considers whether the ease of using AI is sharpening or blunting the student’s own judgment. Ordo amoris supplies exactly the missing question—not “Can I do this?” but “What am I coming to love, and is it rightly ordered?” A student who has read Odysseus resist the Sirens’ offer of effortless, total knowledge is better equipped to resist a tool that offers something similar. The same holds for genetic engineering, persuasive AI, and other such technologies. In each case the technical competence can be transmitted in a semester; but the capacity to ask what the competence is for is what a literary and moral formation is meant to cultivate, and that takes years, not weeks. A curriculum is literally a racecourse. It is not meant to punctuate a degree; it is meant to last for the run of one’s life. Human nature has not changed, and the teacher of Greece is still the base of a well-ordered humanities curriculum. Homer belongs in everyone’s curriculum. Literature like his belongs before—not after—technical and professional training, it should be taught not as cultural decoration for humanities majors but as the place where students practice asking what their skills are for before they have full power to use them; it should be taught with its difficulty intact rather than smoothed into simple moral lessons. Any education claiming to prepare students for an AI-saturated world has failed at something essential if its graduating students are more capable but no more discerning. While machines can increasingly tell us how to do things, a humanities education must still teach us to ask why. As information abounds, the value of wisdom intensifies. The purpose of liberal education has always been the cultivation of persons capable of affirming what is true, loving what is good, and delighting in what is beautiful. That is why, nearly 3,000 years after Homer first sang his epic of a wandering king seeking his way home, the “Odyssey” still belongs at the heart of an education worthy of free human beings. For more information about Paideia Today, go to my website or my YouTube channel. If you would like a free copy of my Visual Guide to Homer’s Odyssey, click here. Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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Please follow all of the steps to get your ballot. Sample Ballots HOW TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT SAMPLE BALLOT? 1: Click the link below to look up your voter profile. Enter your first and last name. Hit search. Click your name. Scroll down and under the “Your Sample Ballot” section, notate the ballot number in the “Your Sample Ballot” column next to 11/03/2026 GENERAL Election. The ballot style shown will be the ballot you will receive. https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup/ Buncombe County GOP Voter Information including early voting and election day polling sites: https://www.buncombegop.com/vote Buncombe County GOP Candidates: https://www.buncombegop.com/candidates. Henderson County GOP Voter Information including early voting and election day polling sites: Henderson County GOP Voter Guide: https://e5373386-273c-4db1-9e02-bb62b30f8bf2.usrfiles.com/ugd/e53733_f366a3f6f1e04c04a8fa8759b5cf41ef.pdf Vote YES on all 3 Amendments. Vote NO on Open Space Preservation Bond. ( ATP PAC is recommending a NO VOTE. Once farmland is developed, it is gone forever. This looks like a sneaky corporate way of wrestling private property away from owners and they want taxpayers to pay for the land transfer. We will keep you apprised. The plan is to get our commissioners to Tea Time on Sept 17th for further explanation. For more information, click here https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/henderson-county-open-space-preservation-bond-vote-no)

Bond Issue Boondoggle at Tea Time, Thursday, Sept 17th at noon at Bay Breeze Restaurant https://ashevilleteaparty.org/so/c7Q1ymrJe?languageTag=en&cid=d7551458-24b1-4a4f-8f88-56b6c0b8cae4 Henderson County Open Space Preservation Bond. Vote NO. We have a major problem in Henderson on our November Ballot that you need to be aware. Tea Time Thursday, September 17th, 2026 at Bay Breeze Restaurant at Noon will tackle this and welcome our Henderson County School Board candidates: Sheila Dale, Randy Beaver, and Alyssa Norman. We need to support them along with Jeff Groh for City Council. Come to our September 17th Meeting at Bay Breeze Restaurant in Hendersonville at noon for the continued exploration. Rudd Orr, primary winner (supported by us in the primary) and unopposed candidate for Henderson County Commissioner seat in November will be with us. Join the conversation. Bring your questions, concerns and comments. ATP PAC is recommending a NO VOTE on the Open Space Preservation Bond on your November ballot. Once farmland is developed, it is gone forever. This looks like a sneaky corporate/government strategy of wrestling private property away from owners and they want taxpayers to pay for the land transfer - aka easement. Vote No. :( Remember: We are for the preservation of individual rights - property rights. Government takeover is never an option. (Our mission.) https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/henderson-county-open-space-preservation-bond-vote-no The underlying problem is the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2026 budget bill — the 2026 Appropriations Act, Session Law 2026-41 (Senate Bill 257) — that was signed into law on July 7, 2026, includes major amendments to the state’s zoning and development statutes that significantly reshapes the legal landscape for local governments and developers alike. They set us up. We effectively have no more zoning restrictions in NC. This opens the door for this boondoggle scheme to weasel more money out of taxpayers to 'preserve land'. If we had proper zoning, farmland would be farmland and not up for grabs by corporate developers. Your taxes are going to go up substantially. $40.40 per $400,000 of property assessment. How much is your property worth? As your property values increases each year, so will this 'bill.' This bond issue is a result of mismanagement by our Henderson County Commissioners of uncontrolled building and land development in Henderson County. SB257 sponsored by Republicans passed this year and gets rid of zoning in NC. Taxpayers should not be paying for their egregious trampling of our individual rights. It gets worse. It was a bipartisan vote of Ds and Rs. That should tell you everything. https://www.ncleg.gov/Legislation/Votes/RollCallVoteTranscript/2025/S/672 Republican (and Democrat) Senators from WNC including Henderson, Haywood, and Buncombe & others voted to eliminate zoning. When are YOU going to stop feeding the RINOS! Ayes (Republican) Alexander; Barnes; Berger; Brinson; Burgin; Corbin; Craven; Daniel; Ford; Galey; Hise; Hollo; Jackson; Jarvis; Johnson; Jones; Lazzara; Lee; McInnis; Measmer; Moffitt; B. Newton; Overcash; Rabon; Sanderson; Sawrey; Settle Ayes (Democrat) Adcock; Blue; Bradley; Chaudhuri; Grafstein; Lowe; Mayfield; Robinson Take a close look at how they are going to fund this on our backs. Vote NO! Come to our September 17th Meeting at Bay Breeze Restaurant in Hendersonville at noon for the continued exploration. Rudd Orr, primary winner (supported by us) and unopposed candidate for Henderson County Commissioner seat will be with us. Join the conversation. Open Space Bond Issue here https://www.ashevilleteaparty.org/post/henderson-county-open-space-preservation-bond-vote-no

This was the letter I ccd Jim Womack and Jay Delancy on 9.8 2025 regarding Bob Castona, pariah to NCEIT. Nothing has changed. I am returning your donation to ATP. I am profoundly disgusted with you and your deceitful, disingenuous passive aggressive behavior. I now understand why you are hated by many. Please, add me to the list. Who do you think you are getting off calling yourself the NCEIT Training Coordinator! Who the hell died and put you in charge. A gross insult to Jay and Jim. At the very least, you owe Jay a profuse apology. Your absurd certificate is an unforgiveable violation and insult to the trust NCEIT Board members have cherished for the past four years before you intruded. We would never have approved of this sham. You see, we check with each other. We trust each other. Something foreign to you. Your hubris deludes you. Your nefarious reputation precedes you. Yes. We do know about that. You are shaping up to be, once again, a detriment, as you have demonstrated by your unwelcomed meddling in the affairs of other counties. Let me be clear. This is me. My only concern is NCEIT and you are a liability. Your $$ doesn’t cut it. So, shove it where the sun don’t shine. You screwed up royally on Saturday. Inadequate materials. Unbelievable. (So, what happened to all of your fancy folders?) And, your ‘fraudulent’ announcement! Insulting this entire organization. You have no credibility. And to think that I thought that you were a naive but a sincere participant in our organization. So much for my misjudgment of you - Don Quixote. What was I thinking! All of your BS on the wasted aggravating repetitive phone calls about ‘who cares who gets credit for the material.’ What audacity! I now get it. You were setting us up for Bob getting the credit for work you haven’t done, work you have no knowledge. You’re An intruder. A meddler. A disruptor. A con artist. You have no claim to the hard work we have done. How dare you. You are a fraud. It’s Stealing. It’s Cheating. You are setting up NCEIT for failure just by your association. I have no respect or use for your underhanded tactics. At the very least, you’re an embarrassment. You throw your money around to attempt influence others, but that’s all you’ve got. You’re empty. You’ve got nothin’! Your stink on ice. I’ve known characters like you. You set up dissention and then watch from afar to enjoy the chaos. Passive aggressive personality. You’re sick. I’m not playing. I’m not humoring or babysitting you. We’ve got more important things to do. I want nothing to do with you. I only hope the NCEIT team has the perspicacity to put you in a box where you belong and to where you can do no harm. Don’t contact me again. And yes. Do expect me to challenge you on every fraudulent move you make. And, yes, YOU are a fraud. Transparency is the best disinfectant. You need disinfecting. And you know what, I’m not alone. I will never approve of anything that comes out of your deceitful mouth. The Emperor has no clothes. Take a hike!