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I don't really have a problem with Tony Gurly being the chairman, but is this really how we want our Wake County Board of Commissioners to run their meetings? A 12 hour marathon meeting waiting for each other to be the first to leave to go to the bathroom so a vote can be taken in your absence? Maybe they should just arm wrestle or flip truck tires to see who should be the next the chairman!
"The group was deadlocked over electing a chairman and vice chairman. The potential deciding vote - seventh commissioner and former chair Harold Webb, who remains in the hospital after suffering a stroke - was not at the meeting........ Finally, late in the evening, GOP members used an unexcused bathroom break by Commissioner Betty Lou Ward to elect Gurly chairman."
This was the kicker for me:
"Finally, they adjourned after Commissioner Stan Norwalk, a diabetic, said he hadn't taken his insulin."
Wowzer... I'm sure glad we don't carry on like that over here in Cary.
Yep. It sure is good to know that we are the Erudite and Polished Standard-Bearers of Dignity.
You know, if these folks had their act together, they would have learned from the school board and had the decisions all made before the public meeting!
Last edited by MikeJaquish; 12-08-2009 at 06:08 PM..
I liked Ruth Sheehan's summary of the meeting in today's N&O:
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Normally, attending a Wake County commissioners meeting is a bit like watching a Flomax commercial. Aem. With the average age of our commissioners (OK, just the Democrats) somewhere this side of Methuselah, there are lots of bathroom breaks. So it was fitting, I guess, that the careful and reasoned choice of the board's next chairman rested on Betty Lou Ward's decision to make a quick potty run during deadlocked deliberations.
Ward, at 73 the second youngest of the Dems, asked for a five-minute recess to do her business. But it wasn't officially granted. So during her "unexcused absence," the Republican commissioners took advantage of the moment and reinstated Tony Gurley as the chairman.
I loved the title for this thread! It will make me laugh all day. Thanks for the chuckle! It's so true.
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