Commissioner Honeycutt's Hypocrisy

Watauga County Commissioner Keith Honeycutt has been back-pedaling (sort of) since he and fellow Republican Commissioner David Blust voted against a resolution calling for increased measures to curtail air pollution in the Appalachians. He said at the time that he didn't have enough information on the resolution, a dodge if there ever was one, and when Matt Wasson of Appalachian Voices pointed out in print how Honeycutt voted, the commissioner got all huffy about people playing politics (which, Lord knows, Honeycutt would never ever do, not in a million years, no, not him!) and then tried to obfuscate the issue by saying he now supports the "Clear Skies Initiative," which in point of fact is El Presidente's pro-corporation law that would actually increase air pollution in the Appalachians and everywhere else.

Honeycutt picks up a little trash on our roadways and wants everyone to believe he's an environmentalist. He uses the bait-and-switch lingo of the Rovians, saying he's for "Clear Skies," when what he's actually for is anything this president and congressional Republicans put forward, which are precisely the policies that are harming all our futures.

Be sure to read what ASU student J.W. Randolph, an intern with Appalachian Voices, had to say about Mr. Honeycutt's hypocrisy in this issue of the Watauga Democrat (you'll have to scroll down to the letter titled "Honeycutt Received Enough Information").

In the vernacular, Mr. Randolph rips him a new one.