North Carolina Tea Party goes after..... wait for it ...... The YMCA

[underpants]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/19/tea-party-ymca-currituck/

The Tea Party movement gets plenty of attention for its national protests, but the groups are becoming increasingly active at the local level as well. In Currituck County, North Carolina, the local Tea Party Patriots group, led by a man named Charles Carter, is taking aim at county plans to build a local community center in cooperation with the YMCA. The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC reports:

Charles Carter, founder of the Tea Party Patriots, says the agreement between the county and the YMCA is “one sided” and questions the county’s openness in providing information about how the deal was arranged in the first place. “I think it’s an open window to their position on fiscal responsibility,” said Carter. <...>

Carter said he is dissatisfied with the county’s response to his protests so far. … Carter charges that the county has agreed to pay $15 million up-front for the new recreational building, but the YMCA has done little to contribute to the investment.


Like so many of the Tea Party talking points at the national level, these charges are based on misinformation. Carter has charged that the Currituck-YMCA deal was not publicly discussed until after a decision had been made. However, there is video evidence of County Attorney Ike McRee “going over items of the lease agreement at a commissioners’ meeting” as far back as November 2009. Additionally, this deal is far from the “sweetheart deal” and big government spending that Carter alleges:

County plans for building a recreational center abruptly halted in 2008 after the county learned it would cost $28 million. At the time, the county had saved only $11 million and could not afford to move forward, explained Scanlon.

New hope for the center re-emerged after the YMCA offered to build basically the same facility for $15 million. The YMCA can build it for less because it uses the same contractors each time it builds a new facility, a YMCA representative said at the meeting.

[EFerrari]

1. And no wonder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9OO0S5w2k

[JuniperLea]

5. My first thought too...

Methinks he believes in make-believe!

:rofl:

[sylviawells]

2. Just Ignore The Tea Party

Rather than talk about all the crazy things they do, I wonder if the world would end if we STOPPED talking about the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and all those other sociopathic nutcases. Palin is only a dangerous woman if we give her the kind of public forum she has now.

[RKP5637]

3. Good point!!! n/t

[JoePhilly]

4. Sounds like he has visions of gay cops and indians dancing in his head.

[obxhead]

6. I wonder if he knows what YMCA actually stands for?

[Bitwit1234]

7. I know I know...the stupidity of the tea bags continues to amaze

me. All this stupid guy had to do was talk to the County Commissioner and ASK. but he just plowed ahead and didn't know what he was talking about. And people say they are intelligent. I guess they took a survey of the tea bags themselves. And of course they are not going to admit how damn and stupid they are.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. I hate to side with the tea party

but having dealt with my bad neighbor (yes the YMCA) I suspect there is something to his complaints.

Just because it is the YMCA does not mean there is nothing shady... sorry.

And I feel sorry for whoever ends up besides them too.

[muntrv]

9. I agree with Charles. I'm not a fan of the Village People either.

:evilgrin: