The race for Transylvania County Commission features four incumbents who strongly back the status quo and four challengers who say the county has neglected key duties such as fixing schools.
Here are the new candidates who are running to make a change and get our schools fixed in a timely manner and get us cell phone service.
They will bring new blood to the county commission.
These people running are wanting to change our county for the good. They want to spend that tax money that we paid on our taxes for schools. That money was paid in taxes by us for our schools. So we need people that will use that money for our schools on the County Council. Anyone who has read my previous post about the county council on the lack of cell towers here also knows it is because of the board of commissioners. They have ignoring our communication needs and our schools needs long enough. The new candidates want cell towers for everyone.
Here are the candidates that are running that we need to vote in for change.
All are qualified for the job and in some cases overqualified.
House of Representatives
Marc Burrows
Transylvania County Board of Education
Sara Green
David Borman
Claudia Hawkins
Transylvania County Board of Commissioners
Christy Blakely
Bryan Oneil
Joe Smith
Erik Emaus
If you really want to make a change in this county vote these people in.
We have no cell towers in the outlying areas of our county. There is not one person that not has been affected by this lack of communication in this county during this disaster. Our Fire Dept has been hamstrung by this lack of communication. The same with our Police Dept. People literally can’t call 911 or even text it. Our Schools can’t wait another 5 years to get fixed. Vote in new blood.
We have had enough. If this Natural Disaster wasn’t bad enough. The lack of CELL PHONE SERVICE IS CRIMINAL ON YOUR PART. YOU HAVE VOTED AGAINST CELL PHONE TOWERS FOR HOW LONG. THAT VARIANCE YOU VOTED ON HASN’T DONE ONE THING FOR THIS COUNTY. THE INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO OUR FIRE DEPTS OUR POLICE DEPTS IS SHAMEFUL. YES SHAME ON YOU. THERE IS NO TELLING THE AMOUNT IF COLLATERAL DAMAGE YOU HAVE CAUSED BY YOUR LACK OF ACTION.
In the aftermath of this disaster we as the voting public are coming after your elected positions. You as an our governing body have failed miserably in protecting your constituents. I suggest you get off your butts and do something because this election cycle we may find someone else to replace you. Everyone I have talked to has pent up anger about this lack of cell service in our county. It is crippling us as neighbors to check on one another. It is hamstringing us from providing important information about our area. ROAD CLOSURES FLOODING DOWN POWER LINES. You think you have problems about this storm damage repair well think agin. I haven’t met one person over the last 20 days that the very first thing out of their mouth is do you believe we are cut off from the outside world no cell service. We can’t get weather information for people in low lying areas. They don’t have flood information. We don’t know the extent of the damage to our county either. We can’t tell our loved ones what THE conditions are here and if we are all right. WE CANT EVEN TEXT 911 !!!
Don’t dare use the excuse that the surrounding county’s have the same issue. The difference is they will have cell service when the power lines get put back up. WE WONT HAVE CELL SERVICE TILL OUR POWER LINES AND THE PHONE LINES ARE BACK UP. THAT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO TAKE a while .
YES THIS IS YOUR DOING AND THE BLAME RESTS SQUARELY ON YOU!OUR COUNTY COUNCIL. EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO HAS VOTED AGAINST CELL SERICE IN THIS AREA SHOULD RESIGN YOUR POSITION AT ONCE. WE CAN FIND OUT WHO AMONG YOU HAS VOTED AGAINST CELL PHONE SERVICE IN OUR AREA. YOU ARE ON RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS. IT WONT TAKE LONG OR MUCH TO FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE AND YOUR RECORD ON THIS ISSUSE. THERE ARE WAYS TO MAKE THIS KNOWN TO THE VOTING PUBLIC. YOU HAVE FAILED MISERABLY IN THIS JOB.
Plz
YOUR SHORTSIGHTEDNESS ON THIS ISSUE HAS COME HOME TO ROOST. I MYSELF HAVE STOOD IN FRONT OF YOU on two occasions 10 years ago and 5 years ago TELLING YOU THAT THE LACK OF CELL SERVICE CAUSES ISSUES WITH OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. I TOLD YOU SPECIFICALLY HOW IT TOOK ALMOST A HOUR TO GET HELP TO A MAN LAYING IN A DITCH ACROSS FROM ROCKY HILL CHURCH. HE WRECKED HIS MOTORCYCLE AND HE WAS BLEEDING IN THE BRAIN AND INTERNALLY. THAT WAS ME THAT DAY WITH NO CELL SERVICE TRYING TO GET 911. BUT YOU DID NOT SEE THAT AS RELEVANT . IT TOOK ONE OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL OWN RELATIVES OWN ALMOST GETTING TRAPPED IN HIS BURING HOME BECAUSE HE HAD TO USE A HOME PHONE TO CALL 911. HE HAD NO CELL SERVICE. YES ONE OF YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND THAT NIGHT BUT TO NO AVAIL. I WAS THERE WHEN YOU MADE NO MENTION OF THE ISSUES TO CALL 911 FOR THAT INJURED MAN. BUT WHEN YOUR RELATIVE ROBBIE WARREN ALMOST GOT STUCK IN HIS BURING HOME IN DEERCHASE TRYING TO CALL 911ON A HOME PHINE. THAT CHANGED YOUR MIND. IT HAS BEEN OVER 5 YEARS AGO. STILL NO CELL SERVICE.
YES I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS. YES I AM YELLING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. I FEEL THAT OUR SITUATION IS DIRE. THIS IS THE WORST DISASTER IN OVER 500 YEARS. APPARENTLY YOU DID NOT HEAR US IN THE PAST BUT YOU WILL HEAR US NOW. MAYBE YELLING IN ALL CAPS FOR EVERYONE TO HEAR MIGHT DO IT THIS TIME. JUST KNOW THIS ONE FACT THAT THIS ISSUE HAS AFFECTED EVERYONE THE SAME IN THIS DISASTER. EVERYONE IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY HAS BEEN AFFECTED. THEY ALL KNOW WHO IS TO BLAME AND THEY ARE MAD ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A ONGING PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS BECAUSE THIS COUNTY IS NOT GETTING OUR POWER BACK ON FOR A LONG TIME. THIS ISSUE IS ONLY GOING TO GET HOTTER. IF I WAS YOU ON THE COUNTY COUNCIL I WOULD BE CALLING EMERGENCY MEETINGS. CALLING THE CELL CARRIERS TO SEE IF THEY COULD SET UP TEMPORARY TOWERS TILL SOMETHING PERMEANT CAN BE DONE. EVEN IF THEY COULD JUST SET UP HOT SPOTS IF POSSIBLE. YOUR JOB IS TO INVESTIGATE WHAT THE SOLUTIONS ARE FOR THIS ISSUE. THE COW HAS ALREADY GOTTEN OUT OF THE BARN SO YOU HAD BETTER START LOOKING FOR A WAY TO CATCH IT.
CINDY MEFFERT
704-451-0399
GOOD LUCK CALLING ME
Ps
Our county is going to take a while to get all the power and telephone lines back on . Even if we get power we still may not have internet . Therefore no cell service. it may be longer to get cell service. Comporium’s has to put the telephone lines back up to get cell service because most of our cell service comes off the internet.
We need to collectively ban together to force the powers to be to get cell towers in this area.
In the aftermath of this disaster we as the voting public and you are our elected officials. You have had over 10 years since my first appearance in front of you asking to get Cell towers for our area. Over 5 years ago I appeared in front of you again. You granted a variance at that meeting. So far we have no cell towers. You as an our governing body have failed miserably in protecting your constituents. This election cycle we may find someone else to replace you. Everyone I have talked to has pent up anger about this lack of cell service in our county. It is crippling us as neighbors to check on one another. It is hamstringing us from providing important information about our area. ROAD CLOSURES FLOODING DOWN POWER LINES. You think you have problems about this storm damage repair well think agin. I haven’t met one person over the last 10 days that the very first thing out of their mouth is do you believe we are cut off from the outside world no cell service. We can’t get weather information for people in low lying areas. They don’t have flood information. We don’t know the extent of the damage to our county either. We can’t warn people to evacuate. We can’t tell our loved ones what the conditions are here and if we are all right. WE CANT EVEN TEXT 911 !!! Yes I am yelling because you didn’t hear us the last two times. People can’t even file FEMA claims without cell service. That is the real kicker.
We have had enough. If this Natural Disaster wasn’t bad enough. The lack of cell phone service rests on your heads. You have voted against cell phone towers for how long. Then the INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO OUR FIRE DEPTS OUR POLICE DEPTS is horrendous. There is no telling the amount of collateral damage this has caused because of your lack of action in this matter.
Don’t dare use the excuse that the surrounding counties don’t have cell service either. The difference between us is they have towers that are coming back on line. We don’t have towers to put back online. In our county the power lines go up first by Duke energy they do not put up the telephone lines for Comporium. Comporium has to put them back up. Until Comporium gets them back up and working we don’t have home phones or internet for our phones to work off of. Please don’t tell me that it has been to hard to get this done.
If our surrounding counties can do so can we.
The power companies prioritize getting cell towers back up first . In most cases they are fed off of major trunk lines for that reason. The reason I know is for 30 years my husband was head of Emergency services for Duke Energy on top of being for several years the Southeastern Coordinator for all the electric utilities from Texas to the Atlantic coast and Florida to Canada. I have seen every major weather event in the last 30 years that has happened to this country. You cannot use satellite phones and some short wave radio systems in severe weather so it is in the best interest of the power company to get the cell towers up and running as soon as possible. It allows for better communication with the different groups. The one common denominator is that all the linemen have is utility issued cell phones. Very few have satellite phones.
So not only are you hamstringing the Fire and Police Depts but the very people who are working to get our power back on. My friend of 25 years with FEMA says it hard to communicate out in the field with his office. He is semiretired now but came back to help with this disaster. He called me two days ago as he finally got thru to see if I was all right.
Hendersonville had cell service long before electricity. Their cell tower’s got back on line before they got the electrical lines back up. If their county council can get cell towers then where are ours.
Instead of lamenting on how hard it was for you to wait so long to eat lunch in county council chamber meeting think about how it felt to be flooded out hanging on for dear life and no cell service to call 911. That is something to lament about.
You as the voting public if you desire a change vote in new blood. The 4new county council candidates are willing to get their sleeves rolled up and get us cell towers. They also want to fix our schools with the tax money we paid.
Here are the new candidates who are running to make a change and get our schools fixed in a timely manner and get us cell phone service.
They will bring new blood to the county commission.
These people running are wanting to change our county for the good. They want to spend that tax money that we paid on our taxes for schools. That money was paid in taxes by us for our schools. So we need people that will use that money for our schools on the County Council. Anyone who has read my previous post about the county council on the lack of cell towers here also knows it is because of the board of commissioners. They have ignoring our communication needs and our schools needs long enough. The new candidates want cell towers for everyone.
Here are the candidates that are running that we need to vote in for change.
All are qualified for the job and in some cases overqualified.
House of Representatives
Marc Burrows
Transylvania County Board of Education
Sara Green
David Borman
Claudia Hawkins
Transylvania County Board of Commissioners
Christy Blakely
Bryan Oneil
Joe Smith
Erik Emaus
If you really want to make a change in this county vote these people in.
We have no cell towers in the outlying areas of our county. There is not one person that not has been affected by this lack of communication in this county during this disaster. Our Fire Dept has been hamstrung by this lack of communication. The same with our Police Dept. People literally can’t call 911 or even text it. Our Schools can’t wait another 5 years to get fixed. Vote in new blood.
Cindy Meffert
704-451-0399
Just in case here is the first post
Then read the second one.
To our County Council of Transylvania County
We have had enough. If this Natural Disaster wasn’t bad enough. The lack of CELL PHONE SERVICE IS CRIMINAL ON YOUR PART. YOU HAVE VOTED AGAINST CELL PHONE TOWERS FOR HOW LONG. THAT VARIANCE YOU VOTED ON HASN’T DONE ONE THING FOR THIS COUNTY. THE INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO OUR FIRE DEPTS OUR POLICE DEPTS IS SHAMEFUL. YES SHAME ON YOU. THERE IS NO TELLING THE AMOUNT IF COLLATERAL DAMAGE YOU HAVE CAUSED BY YOUR LACK OF ACTION.
In the aftermath of this disaster we as the voting public are coming after your elected positions. You as an our governing body have failed miserably in protecting your constituents. I suggest you get off your butts and do something because this election cycle we may find someone else to replace you. Everyone I have talked to has pent up anger about this lack of cell service in our county. It is crippling us as neighbors to check on one another. It is hamstringing us from providing important information about our area. ROAD CLOSURES FLOODING DOWN POWER LINES. You think you have problems about this storm damage repair well think agin. I haven’t met one person over the last 20 days that the very first thing out of their mouth is do you believe we are cut off from the outside world no cell service. We can’t get weather information for people in low lying areas. They don’t have flood information. We don’t know the extent of the damage to our county either. We can’t tell our loved ones what THE conditions are here and if we are all right. WE CANT EVEN TEXT 911 !!!
Don’t dare use the excuse that the surrounding county’s have the same issue. The difference is they will have cell service when the power lines get put back up. WE WONT HAVE CELL SERVICE TILL OUR POWER LINES AND THE PHONE LINES ARE BACK UP. THAT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO TAKE a while .
YES THIS IS YOUR DOING AND THE BLAME RESTS SQUARELY ON YOU!OUR COUNTY COUNCIL. EVERY ONE OF YOU WHO HAS VOTED AGAINST CELL SERICE IN THIS AREA SHOULD RESIGN YOUR POSITION AT ONCE. WE CAN FIND OUT WHO AMONG YOU HAS VOTED AGAINST CELL PHONE SERVICE IN OUR AREA. YOU ARE ON RECORD IN THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS. IT WONT TAKE LONG OR MUCH TO FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE AND YOUR RECORD ON THIS ISSUSE. THERE ARE WAYS TO MAKE THIS KNOWN TO THE VOTING PUBLIC. YOU HAVE FAILED MISERABLY IN THIS JOB.
Plz
YOUR SHORTSIGHTEDNESS ON THIS ISSUE HAS COME HOME TO ROOST. I MYSELF HAVE STOOD IN FRONT OF YOU on two occasions 10 years ago and 5 years ago TELLING YOU THAT THE LACK OF CELL SERVICE CAUSES ISSUES WITH OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. I TOLD YOU SPECIFICALLY HOW IT TOOK ALMOST A HOUR TO GET HELP TO A MAN LAYING IN A DITCH ACROSS FROM ROCKY HILL CHURCH. HE WRECKED HIS MOTORCYCLE AND HE WAS BLEEDING IN THE BRAIN AND INTERNALLY. THAT WAS ME THAT DAY WITH NO CELL SERVICE TRYING TO GET 911. BUT YOU DID NOT SEE THAT AS RELEVANT . IT TOOK ONE OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL OWN RELATIVES OWN ALMOST GETTING TRAPPED IN HIS BURING HOME BECAUSE HE HAD TO USE A HOME PHONE TO CALL 911. HE HAD NO CELL SERVICE. YES ONE OF YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND THAT NIGHT BUT TO NO AVAIL. I WAS THERE WHEN YOU MADE NO MENTION OF THE ISSUES TO CALL 911 FOR THAT INJURED MAN. BUT WHEN YOUR RELATIVE ROBBIE WARREN ALMOST GOT STUCK IN HIS BURING HOME IN DEERCHASE TRYING TO CALL 911ON A HOME PHINE. THAT CHANGED YOUR MIND. IT HAS BEEN OVER 5 YEARS AGO. STILL NO CELL SERVICE.
YES I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS. YES I AM YELLING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS. I FEEL THAT OUR SITUATION IS DIRE. THIS IS THE WORST DISASTER IN OVER 500 YEARS. APPARENTLY YOU DID NOT HEAR US IN THE PAST BUT YOU WILL HEAR US NOW. MAYBE YELLING IN ALL CAPS FOR EVERYONE TO HEAR MIGHT DO IT THIS TIME. JUST KNOW THIS ONE FACT THAT THIS ISSUE HAS AFFECTED EVERYONE THE SAME IN THIS DISASTER. EVERYONE IN YOUR CONSTITUENCY HAS BEEN AFFECTED. THEY ALL KNOW WHO IS TO BLAME AND THEY ARE MAD ENOUGH TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A ONGING PROBLEM FOR THE NEXT FEW MONTHS BECAUSE THIS COUNTY IS NOT GETTING OUR POWER BACK ON FOR A LONG TIME. THIS ISSUE IS ONLY GOING TO GET HOTTER. IF I WAS YOU ON THE COUNTY COUNCIL I WOULD BE CALLING EMERGENCY MEETINGS. CALLING THE CELL CARRIERS TO SEE IF THEY COULD SET UP TEMPORARY TOWERS TILL SOMETHING PERMEANT CAN BE DONE. EVEN IF THEY COULD JUST SET UP HOT SPOTS IF POSSIBLE. YOUR JOB IS TO INVESTIGATE WHAT THE SOLUTIONS ARE FOR THIS ISSUE. THE COW HAS ALREADY GOTTEN OUT OF THE BARN SO YOU HAD BETTER START LOOKING FOR A WAY TO CATCH IT.
CINDY MEFFERT
704-451-0399
GOOD LUCK CALLING ME
Ps
Our county is going to take a while to get all the power and telephone lines back on . Even if we get power we still may not have internet . Therefore no cell service. it may be longer to get cell service. Comporium’s has to put the telephone lines back up to get cell service because most of our cell service comes off the internet.
We need to collectively ban together to force the powers to be to get cell towers in this area.
County Council
In the aftermath of this disaster we as the voting public and you are our elected officials. You have had over 10 years since my first appearance in front of you asking to get Cell towers for our area. Over 5 years ago I appeared in front of you again. You granted a variance at that meeting. So far we have no cell towers. You as an our governing body have failed miserably in protecting your constituents. This election cycle we may find someone else to replace you. Everyone I have talked to has pent up anger about this lack of cell service in our county. It is crippling us as neighbors to check on one another. It is hamstringing us from providing important information about our area. ROAD CLOSURES FLOODING DOWN POWER LINES. You think you have problems about this storm damage repair well think agin. I haven’t met one person over the last 10 days that the very first thing out of their mouth is do you believe we are cut off from the outside world no cell service. We can’t get weather information for people in low lying areas. They don’t have flood information. We don’t know the extent of the damage to our county either. We can’t warn people to evacuate. We can’t tell our loved ones what the conditions are here and if we are all right. WE CANT EVEN TEXT 911 !!! Yes I am yelling because you didn’t hear us the last two times. People can’t even file FEMA claims without cell service. That is the real kicker.
We have had enough. If this Natural Disaster wasn’t bad enough. The lack of cell phone service rests on your heads. You have voted against cell phone towers for how long. Then the INABILITY TO COMMUNICATE TO OUR FIRE DEPTS OUR POLICE DEPTS is horrendous. There is no telling the amount of collateral damage this has caused because of your lack of action in this matter.
Don’t dare use the excuse that the surrounding counties don’t have cell service either. The difference between us is they have towers that are coming back on line. We don’t have towers to put back online. In our county the power lines go up first by Duke energy they do not put up the telephone lines for Comporium. Comporium has to put them back up. Until Comporium gets them back up and working we don’t have home phones or internet for our phones to work off of. Please don’t tell me that it has been to hard to get this done.
If our surrounding counties can do so can we.
The power companies prioritize getting cell towers back up first . In most cases they are fed off of major trunk lines for that reason. The reason I know is for 30 years my husband was head of Emergency services for Duke Energy on top of being for several years the Southeastern Coordinator for all the electric utilities from Texas to the Atlantic coast and Florida to Canada. I have seen every major weather event in the last 30 years that has happened to this country. You cannot use satellite phones and some short wave radio systems in severe weather so it is in the best interest of the power company to get the cell towers up and running as soon as possible. It allows for better communication with the different groups. The one common denominator is that all the linemen have is utility issued cell phones. Very few have satellite phones.
So not only are you hamstringing the Fire and Police Depts but the very people who are working to get our power back on. My friend of 25 years with FEMA says it hard to communicate out in the field with his office. He is semiretired now but came back to help with this disaster. He called me two days ago as he finally got thru to see if I was all right.
Hendersonville had cell service long before electricity. Their cell tower’s got back on line before they got the electrical lines back up. If their county council can get cell towers then where are ours.
Instead of lamenting on how hard it was for you to wait so long to eat lunch in county council chamber meeting think about how it felt to be flooded out hanging on for dear life and no cell service to call 911. That is something to lament about.
You as the voting public if you desire a change vote in new blood. The 4new county council candidates are willing to get their sleeves rolled up and get us cell towers. They also want to fix our schools with the tax money we paid.
Cindy Meffert
704-451-0399
Good luck calling my cell (lack of service)
Fantastic resource, thanks, Dan.