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Sen. Jim Davis dancing on a beach ball

To the Editor:

It seems that state Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin, has found his beach ball, and it’s called fracking.

His feet fly left (well, not willingly), they fly right, they fly fore, they fly aft — all the while he keeps trying to prevent the beach ball from dumping him in the sand. He tilts, he bobs, he evades. But he knows he’s about to get tossed.

Fracking is as popular in Western North Carolina as leprosy. County and town governments across the district have passed resolutions against it. People write letters to newspapers decrying it. Groups get together to protest it.  

In spite of this, Jim, our state senator, co-sponsored the bill in Raleigh that allows fracking to take place in North Carolina, right here, under our homes, in our mountains.

So, Jim, do you feel that beach ball moving under your feet? That’s the voters shifting out from under you, turning to someone who will listen to them.

Rick Bryson

Bryson City alderman   

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