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malaise

(298,052 posts)

6. From last year

Reply to BlueKota (Original post)

Thu Jul 3, 2025, 03:58 PM

Jul 2025

https://politicalwire.com/2024/10/24/virginia-foxx-blocks-her-neighbors-from-leaving/

Typically after tragedy strikes a community you hear about how it brought people together. This is not that story,” the Charlotte Observer reports.

“Two weeks ago, McClatchy received a report that Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) was preventing seven people from driving off their property at the base of Grandfather Mountain after the collapse of a road she owns with her husband, Tom. What transpired in the two weeks since is a convoluted story of how property rights, private roads and stubbornness can bring out the worst in people.”