Monday, November 30, 2009
News Franklin's membership in 'Piedmont Alliance' secret society revealed!
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:27 PM
Citiwire.net columnist Neal Peirce on Friday BLEW THE LID off Mayor Shirley Franklin's membership with the Piedmont Alliance, a secret society that includes mayors, academics and — we speculate — Dick Cheney.
According to Peirce, Franklin and Charlotte, N.C. Mayor Pat McCrory have even started brazenly appearing in public and commenting about the sect's nefarious goals. He writes:
Working in tandem, with bipartisanship rare in today’s America, Franklin and McCrory have been pushing for a common action plan to build imaginative and “green” infrastructure systems for the South’s dominant “megaregion” string of metro areas, centered on Atlanta and Charlotte but extending as far as Raleigh on the east, Birmingham on the west.Last week, with other regional mayors, they gathered in Greenville to steer and name their new organization–the “Piedmont Alliance for Quality Growth – Mayors, Business, Academia.”
So what’s the need? Says Franklin: “I used to think of the Atlanta metro region as my sphere. But now I know–I’m in a megaregion which will increasingly influence the ability of America to prosper.”
So what is this "Piedmont Alliance?" And a "megaregion?" Sounds to me like code for "death panels." Wake up, sheeple!
Peirce continues:
The new Piedmont Alliance is loosely affiliated with America 2050, a public policy group focused on rapid rail and other strategies to make the U.S. more competitive and sustainable in this century. Meeting at the Library of Congress in Washington last month, the 2050 group heard progress reports from the 10 megaregion alliances that it’s sought to inspire, ranging from the Northeast Corridor to the Great Lakes to Southern California.
OK, so Google my source tells me the Piedmont Alliance isn't a secret society, but a burgeoning organization of Southeast politicos and policy wonks who think large metropolitan areas should start working together toward common goals — infrastructure, transportation and water — and prosper as "megaregions." The theory is that if these disparate governments work together, the entire Southeast (and the country) could benefit as a result. Catherine Ross, the director of Georgia Tech's Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, has been a leading proponent.
So all is right in the world. Let's get back to the runoff election!
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