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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Why Is Bill McCain in Bed With WET?

Why is Wicomico County Councilman Bill McCain in bed with a bunch of leftist environmentalists like the Wicomico Environmental Trust?  As in most things, there appears to be a financial motive.

McCain wants WET to support the stealing of property rights from our local farmers.  That's a no-brainer for Mike Pretl and his merry little band.  As socialists, they believe that the state knows best and losing one's property rights is a fair trade to achieve their utiopian view of a "just society".

But wait, I thought McCain was a real estate appraiser.  Doesn't he do work for developers?  Won't this harm developers?

Not really.  Sure, a few out of town developers will be harmed in the short run.  However, local developers own a lot of land inside the metro core.  The value of their land will skyrocket if McCain achieves his goal of stealing from Wicomico County farmers.  I wonder if these grateful developers will be throwing business at Bill McCain?

Besides, IF the metro core is built out you'll see people like McCain changing their tune.  Salisbury can always keep annexing until they reach the shores of the Nanticoke and Pocomoke Rivers.  The Wicomico County Council has yet to show the political courage to say no to the Barons of Barrieland.  Read More ...



5 comments:

Anonymous said...

When will you right-wing commie nationalist extremists grow up? Give it a rest jack.

Anonymous said...

Just the opposite. McCain also supports the downzoning of the metro core, which will hurt local developers siginificantly. McCain believes that somehow this won't hurt the farmer and that their property values will actually go up. He's foolish if he believes this. McCain better figure out who voted him in office, because this may be his last term... Just look how well Pretl did in the last election.

Anonymous said...

Can Bill McCain vote on this?What a slap in the face of WICO Co. voters.

Anonymous said...

McCain wants us to believe because he also owns acreage and he supports it, then everyone else should. One difference is that he didn't make his living off the land farming as the the farmers did. The land is what farmers hold for their 401K and McCain should have a real 401K.

Anonymous said...

Isn't it just amazing the council can't make a decison on a $400,000 dispensary deal but is anxious to take millions of dollars from the landowners in Wicomico.