Now it’s Mr. Blanton’s turn again. Mr. Blanton was very straightforward in asking attorney Sink if attorney Sink would give the board attorney Sink’s OPINION of whether the board would be breaking the law if they voted in favor of one of the calendars.
Right away, chairperson Queen shut the matter down by once again half wittedly stating that attorney ADVICE must be given in closed session; that giving legal ADVICE in open session could open up, but Queen didn’t finish saying what it would open, Queen just said he wasn’t going to set that precedent. Once again Mr. Queen, if you can’t keep up, take notes, Mr. Blanton DID NOT ask for ADVICE. Mr. Blanton asked for attorney Sink’s OPINION. PAY ATTENTION QUEEN!!!
(Actually, Queen is paying attention. Queen just doesn’t want the attorney to publicly state the attorney’s opinion because Queen knows what that opinion will be.)
Mr. Spurling got to put his foot in his mouth once again by parroting the mindless dribble from third in command at the Cleveland County Sheriff’s office Rodney Fitch about breaking the law no matter which way they voted. In his true ignorance of the law, spurred on by Mr. Fitch’s total ignorance of the law, Mr. Spurling parroted that no matter how the board voted they would be breaking the law and then stated in a very matter of fact way that the law says the board SHALL DO WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS. No Mr. Spurling, that is NOT what the law says, and you are either too dense to understand the law or just too lazy to read it for yourself.
When Mr. I’m third in command at the Sheriff’s Office but I’m too dense to understand the law, Fitch was given his second shot, thank goodness, he didn’t embarrass himself further with his nonsense about no matter how they voted, they would break the law.
After everyone had their say, it was time to vote. The six members of Queen’s sheep herd, that don’t have a minds of their own, so they just listened to the opinion of the two legal experts on the board, that really don’t know their butts from a hole in the ground about this law, drank the Kool Aid these two legal experts fed them and allowed their emotions to overtake their sense of duty to obey the law and to obey their code of ethics and they voted in favor of option A, thus violating North Carolina state law and violating their own code of ethics. Don’t forget folks, it was these six bleating sheep that just a few months ago all voted to censor Danny Blanton and Ronnie Grigg for an alleged ethics violation.
For anyone that does not know what that censorship was about. Several students committed the crime of vandalism at Burns high school and the principal allowed the students into the school to commit that crime. Queen et al wanted to sweep the crime under the rug and lied about several things to include the amount of damage done to not only the school but to the personal property of some of the teachers but when Mr. Blanton and Mr. Grigg were approached by news media and asked about the matter, Mr. Blanton and Mr. Grigg, exercising their first amendment rights, spoke out. Mr. Blanton and Mr. Grigg never identified themselves as BOE members and DID NOT speak on behalf of the BOE members but as private citizens. It was the media that identified those gentlemen as board members. Queen got his panties in a wad and started the let’s censor Blanton and Grigg for daring to speak the truth and expose what I was trying to cover up campaign.
Folks, here is a cut and paste from the state law that was the matter under discussion, the one Mr. legal expert Shores held up and read from. The law is 115C-84.2 School Calendar, more commonly called the school calendar law. In that law, the word SHALL is used 29 times. NOWHERE in that law does it say the BOE SHALL do what the parents or employed public school personnel want the board to do. The law simply states the BOE SHALL “CONSULT” with parents and the employed public school personnel. By Mr. I’m the self-proclaimed BOE expert law interpreter but I really don’t know my butt from a hole in the ground’s own statement TWICE, the board COMPLIED with that portion of the law. As Mr. Shores stated TWICE, the board surveyed the public.
Now, back to attorney Sink being disallowed to give an opinion when it didn’t suit the bully in charge’s agenda.
Let’s compare and contrast what board members Blanton and Spurling asked of attorney Sink with what Mr. legal expert Shores asked of attorney Sink.
Board members Spurling and Blanton asked attorney Sink for attorney Sink’s OPINION about the school calendars but I’m in charge and do not dare challenge me, chairperson Queen called what the attorney was going to say about the school calendar options was ADVICE and legal ADVICE had to be given in a closed session. Once again, attorney Sink WAS NOT asked for ADVICE. Attorney Sink was asked for attorney Sink’s OPINION.
When legal expert Shores asked for attorney Sink’s LEGAL OPINION, not just attorney Sink’s opinion mind you, but attorney Sink’s LEGAL OPINION, about the definition of the word SHALL, bully in charge Queen ALLOWED attorney Sink to give attorney Sink’s LEGAL OPINION about that because allowing attorney Sink to give attorney Sink’s LEGAL OPINION about that went right along with King Queen’s pre planed agenda of using the two witless legal expert’s flawed interpretation of the school calendar law to stir up the emotions of the remaining I’ll drink whatever you give me feckless sheep in order to make it appear their violation of the law and therefore their violation of their code of ethics seem legitimate. I would argue that super-duper law expert Shore’s request for attorney Sink’s LEGAL OPINION was a much more egregious violation of King Queen’s court rules than Mr. Blanton and Mr. Spurling simply asking for an opinion, yet Queen let that slide.
That is once again just BULLY IN CHARGE Robert Queen’s abuse of power invoking King Queen’s unilaterally concocted rules for thee but not for me and my sheep.
DO NOT take anything I wrote at face value. Listen to the broadcast of the January 8th BOE meeting and get a copy of 115C-84.2 School Calendar and read it for yourself.