[hdrabon]

This article, obviously derisive of this county commissioner, is simply more evidence of the legal industry's undermining of civil rights and propriety. . . . THIS EVIDENCE OF RAKETEERING BY A LOCAL LEGAL INDUSTRY AND ITS REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY PUPPET IS NOT UNIQUE TO UNION CO., NC, ESPECIALLY IN NORTH CAROLINA.

[2banana]

Houses are pretty expensive in North Carolina...

[Gabz]

It's also not unique to NC..............it's ramapnt nearly everywhere.

[polisilent]

I would certainly not come to the aid of NC legal community, but in this particular issue, I don't see where they have anything to do with the article you listed. Unless you paint a broad stoke of Home Builders and the Real Estate industry being one and the same - thus under the control of the Legal industry in your perspective - I don't see it.

In the article you cite, Commissioner Rushing takes a flawed policy on sewer easements and turns it into a case of innuendo in the absence of fact to attack the county manager, trying to draw the listener to the conclusion of another corrupt bureaucrat. It's McCarthyism plain and simple.

The commissioners attack being couched in know fact of lawsuits involving the sewer easements, banks on that creditability to support his complete lack of it in what is the most likely case of a personal vendetta.

The reader doesn't have the context of the previous history between the two men and should therefore reserve judgment, especially since hdrabon has characterized the article as 'derisive' of the commissioner -- which it is at that. The reporter had a reason to write with such a tone.