Currituck Sues U.S. Government

From: Outer Banks Sentinel
By: Sandy Semans,
Sentinel Staff
http://tinyurl.com/l3np8

My best,
Paul Conlin
ALF Secretary

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Help Save Our Lighthouses!

American Lighthouse Foundation
P.O. Box 889
Wells, Maine 04090

www.lighthousefoundation.org

Gee, what a surprise. No matter how many ways they try to deny it they want nothing more than to steal the light to operate it as a cash cow while doing their normal non-maintenance. What a fine, upstanding group of people the commisioners are . . . . . . (TIC in the worst way if you thought otherwise).

I believe that qualifies as extortion and the County should be challenged under the racketeering laws. IMHO.

Found a website for a candidate looking to replace our favorite congressman Jones in NC

www.weberinthehouse.com

Maybe we should make a campaign contribution.


Hank

LET IT GO!!!!

To me, this has gone past the lighthouse lover part of me -- and to the part of me that deals with all stupid, irrational things.

I have never, in my entire 16 years, seen a group of people more WHINY than this (and I've seen plenty of whiny people). It's a lighthouse. Not that I don't really love this lighthouse (with all the times we go to the OBX, I've actually probably been to CBL more times than Sea Girt), it's not worth this. Yeah, it's a big cash flow thing, and a nice tourist attraction. But the effort, and, I'm sure, money they're putting into this would never be fully earned back, even if they did (God forbid) gain ownership.

They have to let it go. The light was originally awarded to OBC in what, 2003? THREE YEARS of whining and trying.

They're only using this zoning thing as their only loophole. I want to invite the members of the Currituck County Council (or whatever this bunch of utter morons is called) to visit the lighthouse. I want them to look at the >1 acre site and tell me where they'll build a carpark. If they can figure out some way to build one and preserve the site's integrity, without paving over the entire site and parking around the bottom of the lighthouse, I'll go down there with a shovel and a dump truck full of gravel and build it for them.

Just let it go already. Please. Nobody's amused any more, and if you keep this going, the Government won't be either.

If Currituck County ever gets the lighthouse, I predict that they will kill the goose that laid the golden egg. They will spend the income for other things and little by little the lighthouse will decline and will need to be saved again. This is the same government that want to burn down the keepers houses, years ago.

Why don't we just change that quote a little and have it read "The entire issue could be tossed aside, if the county officials were tossed over the side."
This is really getting to be absurd. When are the going to realize they lost.

Never. That's the problem.