DAILY RELFECTOR: Letter to the Editor

Letter: Butterfield district not a mandate


An area paper (not the Reflector) made me laugh Sunday. The headline “G.K. Butterfield calls for fair redistricting” is most amusing.


He's one who benefits from unfair districting. For him to state, “We've got to make sure the lines are drawn fairly,” shows his arrogance. He stated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 requires the 1st District remain a minority-majority district. This is untrue. North Carolina must have two majority-minority districts but nowhere does it say which ones. Convicted felon Frank Balance drew it just so he could be elected and Butterfield benefited. I am sure Butterfield hopes this district remains gerrymandered because he lost quite a few counties last election.

Districts should be made in accordance with the wishes of our founding fathers. If they were, Butterfield would now be retired and we would have a man of integrity in Washington. We were educated by his opponent's campaign in 2010, bringing to light issues about Butterfield that would have never been known.

One, Butterfield admitted to pocketing taxpayer monies following congressional junkets. You should look into what happened to this money.

Following the election and before the new Congress was sworn in, the ethics office said in a report that Butterfield received excess per diem in four trips between June 2008 and August 2009. It found that he had not returned a total of $1,509 from four trips including visits to Lithuania, Belgium, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, England, Italy, Liberia, Ghana, South Africa and Morocco. The office also found that he used per diem for expenses not for travel, like souvenirs. Has this money been returned to the U.S. Treasury? What was he doing in these exotic places? The district is the fourth poorest in the nation and he is going to these countries? Why? We need to know.

BILL SHAVENDER
Washington, N.C.

http://reflector.cookepublishing.net/opinion/letters/letter-butterfield-district-not-mandate-353748

ADIOS, G.K. BUTTERFIELD....AUF WIEDERSEHEN, JOE P. TOLSON!!

The Wilson County Tea Party held a "Now or Never" Rally on the Wilson County Library grounds on October 16, 2010 and billed it as a retirement celebration for G.K. Butterfield.


Butterfield whined that The WNCTP crossed the line by celebrating his retirement party and saying "that we don't want him in Wilson and we certainly don't want him in Washington...."

He found it hurtful after all he had done for "his" district....(OUR District)


Yes...Mr. Butterfield....That would be the 1st District. and it covers 23 full or partial counties in North Carolina...Edgecombe and Wilson Counties among them.

While the National unemployment figures hover around 9.6%, Edgecombe County scores an astounding 15.6% and Wilson above 12%.

So, Please, G.K., Tell me what it is that you have done for "YOUR" District!

Our Democratic led State Legislature also has taxed and spent for FAR too long. We need to get the "Good 'ol Boy" network out and elect some folks who "get it" that 'We The people' are the employers and they are the employees.

We need to restore honor in our state legislature AND our Congress in Washington, DC.

That is why I am casting my vote for Ashley Woolard for the US House of Representatives and for Garland Shepheard for the General Assembly House over Joe P. Tolson, another tax and spend liberal.

Actually, I have yet to find a Democrat worthy of serving his country or his state. It is still recognized as public service, isn't it?

Stephen J. Robb
Pinetops, NC 27864

http://www.wilsonncteaparty.com/profiles/blogs/adios-gk-butterfieldauf

WOOLARD TAKES ON G.K. BUTTERFIELD

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Statement – Ashley Woolard, candidate for Congress – NC 1

7/27/10

I'm angry and the voters in the First Congressional District are angry and rightfully so. Whey see the arrogance and corruption in Washington, and we don’t like it. We are especially upset that Rep. G. K. Butterfield, has violated the spirit of the Congressional Ethics Committee while he is a serving member of that body.

Charlie Rangel, who has served in Congress for 40 years, was charged with numerous ethics violations. It has taken the Ethics Committee two years of investigation to even admit that there might be sufficient evidence to bring charges against Rep. Rangel.

Rep. G. K. Butterfield while serving on the Ethics Committee received a $4,000 campaign donation from Rep. Rangel. By any standard, receiving a donation from someone that you are investigating for a crime would itself be a crime. As of this date, G. K. Butterfield has not returned the $4,000. I demand in the name of the good people of the 1st district that Rep. Butterfield return that money immediately.

Rangel is charged with failure to pay taxes on income earned on properties he owns in the Caribbean. He will also be charged with allowing corporations to pay for his trips to the Caribbean. Rep. Butterfield has also allowed corporations to pay for his trips to the Caribbean at the same time.

Butterfield was first elected to congress in a 2004 Special Election to fill the unexpired term of convicted felon Frank Ballance, who pled guilty to embezzling taxpayer monies through a sophisticated money-laundering scheme.

There is a wind sweeping across this great nation that will cleanse our political system. Greed and corruption is destroying our great country. Washington needs to be cleaned from top to bottom and I want to be part of that cleanup.

I promise to honestly and faithfully represent my friends and neighbors in the First District.

If you want change and honest representation in Washington, then remember me, ASHLEY WOOLARD, when you vote on November 2.

http://www.woolardforcongress.com/
For further information or to schedule an interview with Ashley Woolard call:

Bill Tarpenning - 252-944-5377