newsobserver.com projects - State to spend $740,000 on four homes - Comments

Re: State to spend $740,000 on four homes

FFC1304 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:05 -0500

STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrackkk...

Re: State to spend $740,000 on four homes

Isaac136 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:54:41 -0500

It's what he does. He's not a bright bunny. This is the guy who likes to say "strive to be smarter." Faithful Dome readers would dearly love it if the poor guy could just strive to be smart.

Re: State to spend $740,000 on four homes

jjsmith2 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:06:58 -0500

Is calling people stupid really necessary?

p.s. Sylva is in Jackson County, not Haywood County.

Re: State to spend $740,000 on four homes

FFC1304 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:02:16 -0500

one conceived in democrat stupidity, probably...

Pricey Harrison shouldnt act so stunned...but not to worry, Pricey, the woods in Haywood county are just FULL of democrats...one more ignorant than the next...

Re: State to spend $740,000 on four homes

Cdickson — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:31:10 -0500

How much would it have cost to put a a water cooler in those homes and supply it for 50 years?

This is ludicrous, what piece of legislation allowed this travesty to occur?

State to spend $740,000 on four homes

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:26:58 -0500

North Carolina will spend $740,000 to run a water line to four homes.

The homes, along the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway in Sylva, have had their well water supply contaminated by benzene, a cancer-causing chemical.

To fix the project, the state will run a two-mile water line to the homes, spending the entire $300,000 that state lawmakers put in the 2006 budget to fix contaminated water systems.

Rep. Pricey Harrison, who fought for the special fund, said she is alarmed at the amount of money bieng spent to help so few people.

"I don't know that it was a real wise use of those funds," she said. "I think we could have helped more by providing notification and testing for hundreds of citizens with that money." (N&O)