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After allowing Queen Anne's County to enjoy a period of relative peace and quiet, Mr. Storm has painfully reminded us all of his continued existence (perhaps he's spent the last few months dealing with those possible EPA violations of his?).
In a recent post of his he accused Diana Waterman of being a racist for owning a cow named Oprah. Yes, having a pet named after a black celebrity makes you a racist in Storm's book.
Well, here's a message from the Torch to Storm - look to the speck in your own eye first.
As an aggressive opponent of any and all growth in Queen Anne's County and other rural areas, Mr. Storm has promoted policies explicitly designed to drive up property values by artificially restricting the supply of homes and buildable land.
Driving up prices like that has consequences. And considering that whites on average make about $25,000 more per year than blacks, chief among those effects is that it becomes that much harder for people who aren't white to buy homes here in Queen Anne's County.
Queen Anne's County did see its white population shrink from 2000 to 2009. But in that same time the black population dropped at 7 times the rate the white population did! For some reason, I can't help but think that the fact that the commissioners during that same period consistently adopted Storm's policies probably had something to do with the disproportionate shrink in the black population.
So you tell me which sounds more like racism to you, owning a cow with a celebrity's name or aggressively supporting policies that make it significantly harder for a black or a Hispanic family to buy the house next door?
As a local resident, let's quickly recap the lengthy list of people and organizations with which Storm has had problems, issues and complaints:
ReplyDeleteTown of Centreville:the councilpeople of several years, all the town managers since 2001, the employees, the sewer employees, the police department
Queen Anne's County: the commissioners, the regulations,the sheriff's department after he was arrested in a meeting, the elections, the tax structure
Talbot County: the Talbot County Zoning Dept., since he is supposed to be moving to his 8 (eight) acre farm in Talbot and is angry about the restrictions on his "house" plan
Anne Arundel County: spoken in print that the city of Annapolis didn't bring him sandbags quickly enough, and city government in general, the city business organization
Specific individuals and groups
Terry Adams, Royden Powell, Bob McGrory, Centreville National Bank, Mary Roby, all the members of QA Chamber of Commerce, PNC Bank, developers Gray, Ashley, Symphony Village, NorthBrook, Sperl, Farm Bureau, Ruthsburg Community Center, McCrone, Sugar Magnolia, Drapers Liquors, the operator of Hillside Market, Ashley Car Wash, and many others too numerous to name.
Does ANYTHING make Storm happy, other than getting his name in print? Think about it- how can all of these organizations be so bad when he's their only critic?
Racist? Storm actively worked to prevent the operator of Hillside Market (who happens to be of Indian descent) from obtaining a liquor license, after stating publicly that he didn't want to have the african-americans in Centreville to have another store selling liquor within their walking distance. FYI, that's referring to the area in which he lives, which is Kidwell and Little Kidwell, which has historically been a more african-american part of town. So where does he expect people to go who don't drive and don't have cars? Don't tell me about racist! Wonder if he has a problem with people walking to his ice cream store?
ReplyDeleteIt's widely known in the northern part of the county that during FASTC, one of the big issues with some in Ruthsburg was the fact that US government employees/citizens who were hispanic, black and other races would undergo training there. Storm was the person promoting thatfear tactic, which to me defines the word RACIST.
ReplyDeleteAn african-american GSA employee told me that at one of the hearings last year, Storm walked up to her and said this: "I hope you know that I'm going to cut you a new asshole tonight" and then walked away.
RACIST
SEXUAL HARASSER
VERBAL ABUSER
PIG
Pretty revealing that he didn't pick an armed white male federal agent to threaten.
It's time to say no, no thank you for your comments, mind your manners and your own business and re-read Everything I Learned in Kindergartern....because you are derailing and harming our lives and quality of them on this blessed Eastern Shore and you don't deserve the time of day or to live here......
ReplyDeleteNo one should take and does not deserve the abuse that this individual has apparently inflicted.....this is not a freedom of speech or open meetings issue....
NO surprise that the end game is rascist and classist. There is a great possibility that Facebook's Banastre Tarleton is Swine's partner in their political crimes against decent people, then it all fits together. Follow the money. Move-in waterfront millions and their greenie lackies work to raise property values and drive the working man and woman away.
ReplyDeleteThis is just crazy - this is about a political agenda of people who do not favor the Waterman's public pro-property rights stand and has noting to do with race relations. Schence man spirited egotist who has no moral fiber...he is happy to accuse even when facts do not support his inflamatory retoric.
ReplyDeleteDoes Schence allow black Americans to name their pets with white people's names or is it Ok for them to honor famous whites...just not the other way around?
that was supposed to say Schence is a mean spirited egotist.
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