He has your rights in mind

Posted on by Kent Priestley

Readers of Mountain Xpress are no strangers to Don Yelton, the Republican candidate in last year’s Buncombe County Clerk of Court race and a dogged critic of the region’s status quo.

Tomorrow (Friday) night at the A-B Tech campus in Asheville, Yelton will host a forum on property rights, including the ever-blistering topics of forced annexation, zoning and eminent domain.

It’s conceived as “a citizen’s forum,” according to Yelton, and will feature a lengthy question-and-answer session. Speakers are expected to include Catherine Heath, vice president of the American Dream Coalition and researcher and co-director of www.stopncannexation.com.

Also on a soapbox will be Mike Thompson of Asheville and his pointed message: “Why liberals are wrong about your rights.”

The forum is especially timely as Buncombe County moves closer to enacting a comprehensive zoning ordinance. It will begin at 6 p.m. at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium. For more information, call 775-7212 or visit www.citizensspeak.com.

— Kent Priestley, staff reporter

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2 thoughts on “He has your rights in mind”

  1. author

    Don Yelton tells it like it is. Should be a good meeting.

    Maybe the county commissioners will finally get it:

    ‘No zoning’ means ‘no zoning.’

  2. Jason Bugg

    I hope that there is no zoning in the county. I only say this because I plan on opening an asphalt plant/adult video store right across the street from a local preschool.

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