China Grove shouldn’t be like Huntersville

I am writing in relationship to Virgil Misenheimer’s My Turn about China Grove City Council article in the Oct. 27 Salisbury Post.

My wife and I live on Miller Road in China Grove and we are facing the same dilemma as those good folks on Mt. Hope Church Road.

Our property borders the Deal property that has been or will be sold. We went to a planning board meeting in July, which was a lesson in futility. We have not been able to attend the town meetings. I wrote a letter and sent it to every member to include the mayor and town manager for the August meeting.

So far, I have not received a response from anyone. I suppose the council wants us to become what Huntersville has become, a small town with more houses than the town can accommodate.

I like being “small town.” Maybe the town council could purchase the Deal property and turn it into a park such as Village Park in Kannapolis. I feel that the road infrastructure will not support all the new houses that are being built in new subdivisions. Instead of “playing catch up” consider what the new population would do to the overcrowded schools and the understaffed fire and police departments.

China Grove cannot keep up with the existing annexation it has now — example, Pleasant Village on Highway 152 was annexed many years ago but still has no water or sewer service and was told by the town that they would have to start paying for the garbage pickup this year.

China Grove needs to take care of what they have already annexed instead of taking on new projects.

— Casey Wayne Karriker

China Grove

The birth of the Big Lie

It all started months before the 2020 presidential election.  Then-President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone and others began demonizing early voting and voting by mail.  This group alleged that those forms of voting are fraudulent and allows unregistered voters to cast ballots by the thousands.

The Trump team urged its supporters to vote in person on election day.  Then they convinced Republican state officials to count absentee ballots and mail in after the in-person votes were counted.

Bannon and Stone urged Trump to simply declare victory after the polls closed and the election day votes were being tallied.   They knew Trump would be ahead in almost all of the swing states and would coast to victory.  They also knew that 80% of the mail-in votes were Democratic and would heavily favor Joe Biden. Remember Democrats urged its supporters to vote by mail and vote early.

Trump claims that, when he went to bed, he was way ahead but then thousands of illegal ballots were thrown into the mix and he ended up losing.  Those were not illegal ballots they were the legally cast by mail. When all legal ballots were counted Trump lost the election by over 7 million votes.  Mark Meadows, his chief of staff, and others urged him to concede the next day but he refused.  Instead, he chose to continue the Big Lie that he won but the election was stolen from him.

There has been no evidence of voter fraud and the 2020 election results have been verified in every forum.  Yet this lie has become the cornerstone of dozens of candidates in the 2022 election.  The real truth is that Trump cannot accept the fact he lost.

He would rather destroy our democracy than admit that.

— Steve Albanese

Salisbury