More On Elaine Marshall For U.S. Senate - And Other Stuff

I'm kinda free-associating this morning.

In these days of citizen journalism, often-times the best part of a newspaper story is not the story that the paper prints but what readers say in the comments on the story. The following delicious comment (posted by someone going by the moniker of NANA SIX) was in the thread of yesterday's N&O story on Elaine Marshall's U.S. Senate primary victory . . . and it pretty much sums up my experience with the North Carolina Secretary of State's track record of policing non-profits.

In short, there IS no policing (I have corrected the mere ordinary person's spelling lest the "fact-checkers" pounce):

Elaine Marshall has cost our state millions of dollars in lost revenue as a result of her total neglect and dereliction of duty in handling state records. In thousands of cases, she has done nothing since taking office 13 yrs ago. I've stayed on their back for months now, when they send a notice it's usually for the wrong number of reports due the state. She has literally destroyed state records. If you doubt me, go to her website and check out a few corporations . . . many are shown as current & active, when they are many years in default. This is fraudulent reporting that could put our state in a very liable position. She allows out of state corporations to go years without filing on their Certificate of Authority, with several having been revoked or Adm. dissolved in the state issuing the Certificate.

You cannot imagine the multitude of things she's done and the position she's put us in. She can't run a state office, we sure don't need her in DC making decisions that could affect everyone in the U.S. Please check this out . . . she is literally dangerous to every American Citizen.

You know, all that most of us "ordinary"/"small" people have wanted over the years is for the people who run our state and our country to play fair and enforce the rules for everybody (as opposed to letting "the right people" run wild) . . . and to BE rather than seem competent.

They don't/aren't. But every time they run for something, they tell us things are going to be different when they're on the job. They'll answer the letters. They'll take the calls. They'll do something when doing nothing has been the rule of the last decade.

It's old.

Like I said, I don't have much use for Richard Burr. But sending Marshall to Washington seems to me to be a lot like sending Obama to Washington:

Lightweights. And not the change so many had hoped for.

On a related "right people" note, Community One's stock dropped as low as 0.78 on NASDAQ yesterday. It's penny stock, people.

It never ceases to amaze me that all the right people lecturing us on what is wrong with Asheboro are the same people who steered the place into the toilet in the first place.

But we're supposed to keep hanging on their every word . . . believing everything they say . . . acknowledging that they know best . . . despite the fact that many of them lied and cheated and stole to get their way (or craned their necks looking the other way while the lying and cheating went on), and have not been held accountable in ANY fashion by people like Elaine Marshall (and Bev Perdue and Roy Cooper and Richard Burr and Kay Hagan and all of the other politicos who were going to finally fairly represent you and me).

OBTW, the half-assed cap is off and oil keeps gushing into the Gulf. Wouldn't it have been nice if someone in government had enforced the rules BEFORE the rig blew?