[LPmeck] Huntersville Recommendations

[Christopher Cole]

With all the media attention on the Charlotte races, I know that it is  
hard to get information about the nonpartisan candidates in the other  
six municipalities. I can help with the Huntersville mayoral and town  
board elections. Many of the candidates I know personally.

I asked the candidates what I consider two key questions: their  
opinion about Huntersville's two "big shiny objects" (the aquatic  
center and Discovery Place for Kids), and their understanding of  
property rights. Based on the answers to those two questions and my  
personal knowledge of the respective candidates, I voted for and  
recommend the following (note that none are Libertarians):

Brian Sisson for mayor, an easy choice. While Sisson supports economic  
incentives, "because our competitors will do it, whether or not we  
do," he is still way ahead of fellow Republican Jill Swain. The  
division on HFFA and DPK demonstrates their strongly different views  
of government.

Ken Lucas, Bill Iuliani, Jeff Pugliese, and Beth Caulfield, for town  
board. I gave my fifth vote to Eddie Bruce. While I have reservations  
about his pragmatism, he generally comes down on the right side. U  
might also say that I have one reservation with Lucas, the only  
incumbent I voted for, as well. The board voted unanimously to support  
an increase in the local sales tax, yet all the incumbents say they  
support "keeping taxes low," without any apparent awareness of the  
contradiction.

I especially oppose incumbent Sarah McAulay, While she describes  
herself as a "property rights person," she also explicitly states that  
property rights are subordinate to the common good. That makes the  
ownership of property a privilege, not a right, subject to the passing  
whims of whatever politicians are in the majority.

-- 
Chris Cole
Huntersville, NC

"Those who pretend they want to preserve freedom, while they are eager to fix
prices, wage rates, and interest rates at a level different from that of the
market, delude themselves. There is no other alternative to  
totalitarian slavery
than liberty. There is no other planning for freedom and general  
welfare than to
let the market system work. There is no other means to attain full employment,
rising real wage rates, and a high standard of living for the common man than
private initiative and free enterprise."
-Ludwig von Mises
Founder, Austrian School of Economics
March 30, 1945