"MistaSpeaka" Harold Brubaker (R) N.C. House: Religiously Insensitive, Sexist, Puerile, Dead Wrong With His Facts, And NOT FUNNY

I'm a little rushed right now, but this one is one I wanted to get up today. 

I know it will not change the result of next week's election (since Harold Brubaker is running unopposed - much like DA Garland Yates always does), but I do want it to waft . . . and for anyone in Asheboro reading this to pause for just a moment and REALLY THINK about the caliber of representatives we are sending to Raleigh.

While we're on the subject of leadership, and before I get started, I'm reading a book called The Roots of Obama's Rage by Dinesh D'Sousa.  It's profoundly disturbing stuff.  Where was the press back when this guy was originally being vetted?

Silly me.  Where was the press?  Why it's where the press always has been - in someone's pocket.  Just ask the Courier Tribune's Ray Criscoe.

I digress.  The subject of Harold Brubaker, my representative to Raleigh, speaks to the roots of my own rage about what was done to me in my own hometown (while Harold silently watched) . . . rage which serves as the foundation of this blog's existence . . . rage which I think has a much firmer foundation than the current Communist in the White House.

Moving on along, in Asheboro and Randolph County, Republicans rule.  It's been that way for as long as I can remember.  Indeed I am an ex-Republican.  The joke in Randolph County has always been that our roads are crappy (a particularly sore point with me & my neighbors on the wrong end of Viewmont) and we're always on the dead-end of every bad thing because our politics are "wrong" (as the Dems have long ruled Raleigh). 

The thing is, the joke isn't funny anymore. 

What concerns me most about the up-coming mid-term blood-bath-for-Democrats (I can really see Tuesday from my house) is that several of our most prominent Randolph County Republicans . . . who've been in office FOREVER . . . are trying to suck up to disgruntled Tea Partyiers . . . presenting themselves as the embodiment of hope & change in Raleigh . . . when the truth is, sending them back to Raleigh is just asking for more of the same-ole-same-old in a new red shirt (history is interesting, isn't it?).

It's like flipping a burger laden with Mad Cow.

As I blogged yesterday, the sad thing about living and voting in Asheboro is that oftentimes, we don't have much of a choice.  If there's only one person running for office, and you cannot bring yourself to vote that way, the only choice you really have is to leave your ballot blank.

Such was the case yesterday with ex-"MistaSpeaka" Harold Brubaker . . . who embodies the reason I changed my voter affiliation to "Independent" and have not voted a "straight" Republican ticket in years.

I left it blank.  Indeed, it was hard not to spit on the ballot (feel free to click on the reasons for that).

But the spit would probably short-out the electronic ballot box, I'd be accused of disenfranchising Rednecks (I say that with deep affection and solidarity with said Rednecks) so I thought better of it.

Anyway, last night, my ex, Tim Greene, called me.  He wanted to tell me about a "get-out-the-vote" phone call he got from Harold himself. 

He wasn't completely sure he should tell me.

Now Harold and Tim go way back - Brubaker has done some accounting work for Tim in the past . . . and Tim, like most starry-eyed Randolph County residents, respects the office Brubaker holds, if not the man.  Tim actually thinks Harold is a "very smart man" (I think Harold is a very opportunistic man).  We've had words over it. 

It's always frustrated me how much latitude the locals will give some of these scoundrels-in-office . . . how much people want to be "in" and "cool", even if "in" and "cool" is wrong.

It's well known amongst the locals that Brubaker has used his office to his own personal advantage every chance he got . . . and that actually doing his job in Raleigh is not high on Harold's list of priorities.

It sure has been that way when it came to doing anything to help this lady doctor constituent.

Mr. Brubaker, you see, "has to live in this town" (it's in blue instead of read because in this particular instance, Brubaker might as well be Dumpling . . . or Sleazely . . . or Edwards . . . or Cooper).

I digress.  On the phone, Harold started out by telling Tim (a Democrat despite all of my hard work - and all of my Father's hard work - over the years) that he needed to,  ". . . vote Republican . . . because if you vote Democrat that's just not Christian".

There was dead silence on my end of the phone when Tim told me that.

Of course, this lapsed Baptist could blog all day long on what passes for "Christian" behavior in Randolph County.  From sacred-assemblies-designed-to-soften-up-the-Godly-locals-to-alcohol-sales to a-United-Way-chairman-who-lied-repeatedly-under-Oath-in-Court, the big-guns here are practiced experts in the good-ole-boy art of capitalizing on (and manipulating) the Faith of the locals to their own end$.

My voice dangerously low, "Was THE IDIOT joking?", I asked Tim.

"Yeah, probably . . . but there's something else", he said, sheepishly.  

Tim had apparently told Brubaker about a recent back injury . . . a possible ruptured disc . . . for which he is in the process of being evaluated (MRI's and such) . . . and was in a whole lot of pain . . . etc.

Brubaker responded, "Well Tim, if you hadn't driven that lady doctor-friend of yours out of town she could have taken care of you."

Let's just say "a prolonged pause" and "blood running cold" does not begin to do what this lady doctor thought at that particular moment justice. 

Poor Timmy got an earful.

And so now, shall "MistaSpeaka".  This lady doctor would like to correct a few of his cloudy facts.

(1)  Tim Greene did not run this lady doctor out of town, Harold.  Your real good buddies, Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin did that . . . hiding behind some fairly creative interpretations of rules, contracts and law.  State and Federal oversight was a sad, pathetic joke.  You yourself could not be bothered. 

You're so concerned about state employees being overpaid, but Bob Morrison pulling down over $700,000/year as CEO of a small-town "non-profit" hospital is just fine and dandy?!?

(2)  Moreover, while the lady doctor doesn't work here anymore, she does LIVE and VOTE here, and YOU represent her . . . not that it EVER mattered because, being the USELESS, GUTLESS WORM that you are, you "have to live in this town" . . . ergo you're quite practiced at slurping up the rotten leavings of "the right people".

(3)  And instead of this lady doctor being able to stay in Asheboro and fight for the health and well-being of children here (and maybe keep them from enduring what she did as a child - at the hands of a butcher at Randolph Hospital) . . . where just about every public service for kids SUCKS (including and especially the Child Support Enforcement program that the great state of NC dumped on wannabe GSO trash-king Dick Wells) . . . she's on the road, using her considerable talents to take care of children in other far-Eastern counties. 

Oh, and the parents of those children down East are very appreciative/grateful to have a Pediatrician on their side who obviously gives a damn to the point of putting herself in-the-line-of-fire when the higher-ups would rather her shut up, roll over, go back to sleep and let a baby die.

Moreover, the people/institutions who now employ the lady doctor appreciate her clinical expertise and her ability to adapt to bad/difficult situations, and turn them around for good.

But of course, the lady doctor has had a whole lot of practice . . . because in the very beginning of her career (the one your buds, Bob & Steve tried to kill), while she was in public service no less, the lady doctor found herself smack-dab in THE MOTHER of all bad situations - courtesy of the home-boys running Asheboro (into the ground).

(4)  I'm fairly certain that God's pretty disgusted with Republicans too. 

THERE WAS NOTHING REMOTELY "CHRISTIAN" ABOUT WHAT YOU AND YOUR VIP CONSTITUENTS DID TO ME.

I've got to ask, Harold.  Were you drunk when you called Tim?  Because what-in-God's name would possess a sane/sober man to say those kinds of things to the man who once called Dr. Mary Johnson his sweetheart and who still calls her friend?

In closing, Harold, you're a bigot.  You're sexist.  You're a coward.  You're ignorant.  You're wrong.  And you're just NOT FUNNY. 

You're a PIG who can't fly for your own crap weighting down your hooves.

Oh, and you did not . . . and will not ever . . . get my vote.

Hummmmmmm . . . I'm wondering if this post makes me "belligerent" . . . or perhaps it just won't be considered "productive"?

And . . . does talking back to bullies make you one?