Pass on Edgar Robbins for Leland Council
Some Details Missing in His Response; Socialism on Display
Democrat candidate for Leland Council, is, perhaps, the best one of the Democrat bunch. His brief 4 page comments are more concise than Waleed’s, and he also has a sense of thoughtfulness.
Regardless of those strengths, as I will show, he is still a no vote for me.
Robbins states he was born in Leland. If I recall (do let me know if I get any of this incorrect), because I have been around here since the 90s, Robbins had a short-lived restaurant, “Edgar’s Soul Food.” It was a decent place. The guy can cook. It is too bad his place closed some years ago.
However, none of this is a reason to vote for him for council in itself. So, let’s get to his questionnaire answers.
In the section on telling his personal story, Robbins states he was born in Leland, and then was in the Navy, and was a machinist. However, he left Leland and spent time in, Raleigh, Durham, Dayton, Ohio, and around the San Francisco Bay area. If I am deciphering the movement correctly, Robbins really only settled down in Leland around 1993.
None of this is disqualifying, but it is absent from his responses.
He writes some reasonable things like, “we must be cautious when considering rezoning requests and issuing building permits. Growth should never come at the expense of existing neighborhoods.” I could not agree more. He ads “not all growth is good growth.” True. But, the problem is just what and how does he plan to address it? Not answered.
Robbins wants more traffic lights, which, is debatable. You can see for yourself the one intersection he wants a light. Meh, I am not sure that spot needs a light actually. He also wants to spend tax money on bike paths and sidewalks. This will tax the budget. Even more egregious, is his call for taxpayer funded transportation so people can take a bus to…..WILMINGTON. Really Hard, Hard pass.
Public transportation is a money boondoggle, and is always a loser for taxpayers, especially the poor. Yet, he mentions more than once, Leland should pay for a public transportation system….like a city. Charlotte anyone?
His environmental statement is vague and general pap. He thinks what we do has “climate impacts.” Oh? I did not realize that human beings were stronger than, to put it in his stated faith acknowledgement, God. Man made climate change is a hoax. IF there is change, the science always leaves out the problems with the sun, which is likely the prime cause for any change in climate. This is a fact by the way, and science has looked at this—in other words, the science is not settled. It never is settled, by the way. That is the nature of science.
Robbins wants to spend tax money on free health screenings for the people. Sorry, but this is going to break the town budget. It is also socialist, and reveals his Democrat bonafides. Hard pass.
He speaks about “our democracy”(Democrat code for “their democracy” which is not really all that democratic) and that citizens need to participate in town government, but says nothing else. It is all rather vague. There’s no new ideas here. And it presumes, the people in this town have not been engaged since the council tried to raise our taxes 70%.
Robbins also states businesses should be subject to an ideological litmus test before they come here and build anything. This is tyrannical. He wants all businesses to “embrace and reflect” our “values.” What are those values? Apparently not free speech or, liberty for that matter if they have to bend the knee to the government who defines “values.” And, the town council, in his mind, logically, will be defining those “values.” Hard Pass.
In the final analysis, the entirety of his responses are vague, and have no clear explanation of just how he wants to do all he wants to do. He certainly does not state how he is going to pay for all his pet projects, but we know how: taxes. But, even if he could explain what he wants to do, it would, in fact, be bad for Leland. That, and the fact he is a Democrat, is a solid NO for me. Democrats have learned how to employ badges of slavery on the people, and a public transportation system does just that.
Hard Pass on Robbins.
Yeah sounds like Edgar Robbins has been indoctrinated with the woke democrats. They always show their ignorance and hand when they never actually address the issues and provide solutions.