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Tea party movement? It's more needed now than ever
We must keep working to put this country on the path that our founders wanted when they wrote the Constitution.
To do this we must find workers, not just members, for our groups (Tea Party, 9-12-12, liberty, leadership of GOP, etc.) keep writing letters to the editor, answering comments on the opinion pages, become guest speakers on radio and TV, finding constitution conservatives who are businesspeople as candidates for 2014 and 2016 for all levels of government.
The re-founding of America is going to be a long process. It must continue starting today. The socialists have been at it for a long time.
We were asleep. We have awakened, but must continue to stay awake ... and hit the ground running now ... by studying what worked for them and USE IT for the good of the country. NOW!!!!
Fremont V. Brown IV
Asheville
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Brown is the vice chair of the Asheville Tea Party.
Register of deeds ripped for overstating changes
An Oct. 26 Asheville Citizen-Times’ letter-writer states: “(Drew) Reisinger brought the ROD office into the Internet age, enabling online access…” — yet contradicts that by saying he (the letter-writer) helped Otto DeBruhl “implement their first computerization initiative” in the 1980s,” and called DeBruhl’s office a “well-run if technologically conservative department.”
How, exactly, can computerization in the 1980s be considered “technologically conservative”??
In 2007, DeBruhl contracted with Cott, the data management company serving the ROD office since at least 1971, to index deed books dating from 1805 “in a format searchable by the public.”
The data originated from microfilm images or hardcopy index books provided by his office. The investment in that work was $159,928.
In 2008, DeBruhl advanced his office to Cott’s new Resolution3 Land Records Management software “providing ease of use for even the novice computer user,” at an investment of $19,770.
In 2009, DeBruhl added another web server and invested $5,000 with a signed contract to lay the foundation for eRecording.
Buncombe County’s IT department provided the Spanish website, activated credit/debit card acceptance, and added online marriage license applications.
Reisinger has brought nothing new to the office himself. He takes credit for the work of Otto DeBruhl and the IT department.
Peggy Bennett
Leicester
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Bennett is the program director of the local nonpartisan group Citizens for Change, which bills itself as working for a better community.
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