====== The Musings, Sayings, and Antics of Power Pundit Couple Member Ruby Sinreich ====== === April 2010 === ===== Local Fascist Blog Attempts To Silence Proponent For Transparent Chapel Hill Government ===== ==== Press The Image To Hear The Sweet Dulcimer Tones Of Ms. Sinreich ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/{{:ho:thattone.mp3|{{:ho:il_ruby.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ Pulpsters would think that local Progressives would be in favor of open, transparent government, particularly at the local level. You would think that local Progressives wouldn't want a repeat of the closed, back door, unfair process used by the [[ph:start#commish|Commishes]] to propose siting the trash transfer station on Eubanks Road. You would think that local Progressives would be in the forefront of questioning the closed, back door, unfair process used by the Chapel Hill Town Council to site the IFC men's shelter. You would be wrong.\\ \\ None other than anarchist, censored-blog fascista [[ss:rs|Ms. Ruby Sinreich]] spoke out against those trying to disinfect the Chapel Hill government with sunshine. Ms. Sinreich singled out local school activist Mr. Mark Peters for daring to ask the Chapel Hill government for all emails relating to the shelter siting. Ms. Sinreich's words do not need analysis. In a thread entitled "//Mark Peters is watching you//", Ms. Sinreich said, "//I understand you've also asked the Town of Chapel Hill to share all official e-mail regarding relocating the homeless shelter. I can kind of imagine what you're trying to get at there, but I doubt you'll find anything useful. So maybe Mayor Foy and the Chancellor Moeser made some kind of arrangement to transfer this land, that's already publicly apparent. What does that prove? How will that help your neighbors' cause to keep the Interfaith Council's Community House out of the neighborhood? It almost seems like you want to intimidate public officials, Mark. I'm not sure why.//" Mr. Peters responded to Ms. Sinreich in his usual open and respectful manner. "//It's really quite simple. There is no directory of local email addresses which we can use to find the email addresses of our neighbors. I was hoping that we could find some of our neighbor's email addresses in the list. I suspect that if you 'really' wanted to know why, then you would have emailed me or called me rather than blindsiding me on the front page of OP. Had you asked, then you could have at least added that to the initial article. Clearly this post is meant to intimidate me.//" \\ \\ === January 2010 === ===== Carrboro Says “Yesh” To Another Partially Secured Loan ===== ==== Press The Image To Hear Boa Reaction ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/ho:ignorance.mp3|{{:ho:chilton_yes-man.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ One of the pride and joys of the [[ph:start#local_living_economy|local living economy]] movement is the Carrboro revolving loan fund (CRLF). Created by a grant of non-local state funds, the CRLF lends money at less than market interest rates to businesses that supposedly can’t get loans from private capital lenders. Recently one CRLF recipient (Original Ornaments) [[ho:august_2009#revolver_loan_takes_a_bead_further_ed_folly_in_carrboro|went belly up]] in the hotly competitive Carrboro glass bead business. The town of Carrboro invested $70,000 in a small retail beading business in the midst of the worse financial downturn since the Great Depression. Mr. James Harris, Carrboro’s ED director, foresaw no problem in issuing the owner, Ms. Schlatter, a loan of $70,000 from town coffers. He even foresaw no problem with Ms. Schlatter only putting up $25,000 in assets. (Try getting that debt-to-collateral ratio in the real business world.) The term was six years. The interest rate was 3%. Turns out, that the Schlatter loan wasn’t the only undercollateralized loan approved by Mr. Harris in his rush to empty the CRLF coffers. Around the same time, Mr. Harris sent [[http://www.ci.carrboro.nc.us/BoA/Agendas/2009/05_19_2009_C3A.pdf|another CRLF loan]] to the [[ph:start#boa|Boa]] for approval. The business plan was to rent cubicle space in a common office in Carrboro. So many great businesses have been launched from coworking space. The loan was for $90,000 at 2% interest (a rate one–third better than even Ms. Schlatter got) over six years. The payment plan was interest only for the first six months, then interest and principal payments. So what was the collateral for the $90,000 loan? It was $40,000 in home equity. The collateral was a second mortgage position on the business owners’ home. Why would the town of Carrboro accept less than 50% collateral on a business that, unlike Original Ornaments, didn’t even have an inventory to help secure the loan? The answer is simple if you recognize the time-honored tradition of Carrboro politics, reward your [[ph:start#palocracy_pals|pals]]. Turns out that the requesting business, Yesh Thirty Seven LLC //dba// [[http://www.carrborocoworking.com|Carrboro Coworking]], is owned by a married couple. Mr. Brian Russell is one partner. [[ss:rs|Ms. Ruby Sinreich]] is the other. Yes, it’s the same Ms. Sinreich who is a longtime friend of Mayor [[ss:mkc|Mark Chilton]]. Pulpsters will remember that as a college-educated, private secondary school educated, single female she received a low–interest loan from Empowerment, Inc. courtesy of Mr. Chilton. Ms. Sinreich denied that the loan was in return for her supporting Mr. Chilton in his run for Carrboro office. Ms. Sinreich also operates the local censored political blog known as [[http://orangepolitics.org/|Orange Politics]]. Despite, Ms. Sinreich never having lived in Carrboro, she's avidly supports Mr. Chilton in all of his developer/mayor schemes. Pulpsters should note that as of June 2008, the town of Carrboro was sitting on over $400,000 in CRLF cash. Within the next year, the town had exhausted the fund. Here’s a table showing the wise dispersals creating dozens of well paying jobs and oodles of boodle in sales taxes, at least if you're Mr. Harris. ^ Business Name ^ Business Type ^ Loan Amount ^ Loan Date ^ ^ Yesh Thirty Seven LLC | co-working office space rental | $90,000 | June 2008 | ^ The Fringe //dba// Beehive | hair salon | $50,000 | February 2009 | ^ Cycle 9 | bicycle shop | $68,500 | February 2009 | ^ Original Ornament | glass beads | $70,000 | February 2009 | ^ Carrboro Citizen | [[ho:june_2009#ties_that_bind_local_carrboro_media_borrows_50_000_from_carrboro|newspaper]] | $50,000 | May 2009 | ^ Kind Coffee LLC | coffee shop | $57,000 | May 2009 | ^ Carrboro Raw LLC | juice bar | $40,000 | June 2009 | Note the [[http://carrbororaw.com|Carrboro Raw]] "juice bar in a van" is so dedicated to repaying your loan money that it closed for business over the Christmas break. No word on when the Boa will require Mr. Harris to produce an actual accounting that shows how much money has been given over the past decade to create exactly how much in additional tax revenue for the town. \\ \\ === February 2009 === \\ ===== Orange Tea Party Unlikely, Despite A Decade Of Taxes Outpacing Income ===== ==== Press The Image To Hear The Unspeakable ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/{{:ho:afraidofgovernments.mp3|{{:ho:cross_that_line.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ __Early Warnings Of Unsustainable Taxation__\\ For years the Pulp has had postings beating the drum on how unsustainable it is to expand your local taxes faster than the income of your citizenry. It’s simple economics really. If you double the taxes while citizens increase their median income by half, then you are reaching ever deeper into their pockets. At some point there’s little disposable income left. Their homes are mortgaged to the hilt. However, in a “facts optional” political atmosphere, it’s what you want and how you feel about getting what you want that matters. None other than [[ss:mn|Mr. Mike Nelson]] proclaimed while running for [[ph:start#commish|commish]] in 2006 that people in Orange County “//want a high level of services and that requires taxes//”. That was back when he had to explain how Carrboro taxes (not tax rates) more than doubled under his mayoral leadership. Back in the open forum days of the Pulp, the usual crowd of [[ph:start#apologist| political apologists]] (Mr. Fred Black, Ms. Terri Buckner, [[ss:josey|Mr. Joseph Capowski]] (as “Weaverguy”), Mr. George Entenmann, [[ss:mm| Mr. Marc Marcoplos]], and [[ss:rs|Ms. Ruby Sinreich)]] all sung the praises of Mr. Nelson and howled about how Orange County was different. Here people wanted the “high level of services” and knew they must pay more for them. The fact that [[ps:cbtg#a_fiscal_tale_of_two_cities_comparing_boone_to_carrboro_by_the_numbers|other counties and towns]] offer equal or better services at lower tax burdens was assiduously ignored. __Cracks Show As Even UNC Professors Feel Your Pain__\\ The cracks in the Orange tax-and-spend foundation are finally showing. In a recent [[http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/guest_columns/story/41096.html|Chapel Hill News editorial]], Mr. John J. Pringle, (C. Knox Massey Professor of Finance (Emeritus) at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC) laid out the case supporting the Pulp’s proposition. Orange County had practiced, and is practicing, unsustainable taxation. Mr. Pringle pointed out that median house prices in the US averaged 2.1 times median income for two decades prior to 2001. Housing prices almost doubled to 4.1 times median family income post 2001. When the housing bubble burst by late 2008, prices had fallen by 25% for the bubble peak, according to a widely used national home price index used by Mr. Pringle. Mr. Pringle cites his personal experience, “//since 1993 when we moved into our house, our property tax has increased 249 percent, while during this same period the consumer inflation index increased 46 percent. Over the 15 years, inflation has averaged 2.5 percent per year, while our property taxes have increased by an average of 8.7 percent per year. In a single year, 2005, our property tax increased 42 percent, and from 2000 to 2008 more than doubled//.” Did income keep pace with this taxflation? No. “//During the peak years of the housing bubble, from 2000 to 2006, house prices nationally rose 88 percent, while personal income rose only 30 percent. Social Security income is tied to the Consumer Price Index, which rose 17 percent.//” __Orange Tea Party?__\\ Will an “Orange tea party” tax revolt happen, much like what happened in Boston, Massachusetts in 1773? No. Unlike King George III, our local politicians are much more skilled in straddling fences and speaking out of both sides of their mouths. Most importantly, the local media and political apologists will be sure not to place any responsibility for the present tax mess on incumbent local officials. Without someone connecting the dots, "It just happened". __Mike Nelson – Archtypical Politician Without Responsibility__\\ Sociopathic behavior is acceptable if exhibited by a politician. Deception, dishonesty, feigned interest may still be repulsive for many in personal interactions, but as a society, we accept such behavior in our politicians. It’s considered “part of the game”. It’s okay to say one thing and do the opposite. It’s okay to pretend to be what you aren’t. It’s okay to say you’re against tax rises while promoting a new tax. After a decade of doubling the tax burden in Carrboro, in 2006 Mr. Nelson ran for the commish spot as the next rung in his climb for political glory. When questioned about his taxation record, he confidently responded that here people want a “//high level of services//” and know “//they must pay more for them//”. In part, his confidence exuded from a reliance that no one in the local media or political establishments would question his statement. The fact that other counties and towns offer equal or better services at lower tax burdens would not be mentioned. After being elected in the Democratic primary, Orange County having one party rule, in 2007 during his first [[http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/534293.html|commish retreat]], Mr. Nelson opined "//We need to dig down and find out really why we've had 18 years of tax increases. Eighteen years in a row is a long time.//" Then one year after speaking aloud about 18 years of tax increases, in 2008, Mr. Nelson was advocating for another tax. Mr. Nelson, like his successor as Carrboro mayor, [[ss:mkc|Mr. Chilton]], advocated vociferously for the ill-fated and highly rejected [[ps:octx|local option transfer tax]]. He even used the case of his retired elderly mother to support taxing home sales even more, claiming he would raise property taxes less, even though the proposed tax wasn't requried to be revenue neutral. Eluding Mr. Nelson’s steel trap financial mind is the fact he has raised the county tax burden more than the funds the transfer tax would've yielded. (See [[http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/2008/04/24/county-schools-need-transfer-tax/|Carrboro Citizen Nelson Transfer Tax editorial]].) Quite an accomplishment Mr. Nelson has achieved in less than one term in office as commish. Retreats must be especially insightful times for Mr. Nelson. For in 2009, one year after asking for the transfer tax increase, Mr. Nelson again felt bad about county taxes. He noticed that the county is spending faster that county property taxes are rising. (Mr. Nelson ignored the fact that property taxes are rising faster than median income.) He was concerned that county spending would rise 5.8% annually over the next five years while property values were projected to rise just 3.9%. In Mr. Nelson’s immortal words, "//I have a fundamental, philosophical, ideological problem with the way this organization had done budgeting. It's brought about tax increases//." This revelation comes from the person who oversaw a doubling of the Carrboro tax burden, far outpacing both median incomes AND property values in Carrboro. (See [[http://www.newsobserver.com/print/wednesday/other/story/1366315.html| N & O Nelson Philosophy Story]].) __A Hope For Change - Coming Campaign Converting The Image of Tax-and-Spenders Into Fiscal Conservatives__\\ With 2009 bringing about a confluence of a local municipal election and a severe recession sliding into a depression, Pulpsters should be alert in looking for the coming campaign to remake the image of local incumbents. Local media and political apologists will create a wave of disinformation portraying incumbents as "holding the line", "showing a tight fist", and the ever popular "making the painful cuts" with regards to local budgets, and thus, local taxes. That these incumbents used the good times to build a bureaucratic infrastructure unsustainable even in the good times, much less the bad times, is irrelevant. That they raised your taxes way beyond increases in your income even in the good times is, likewise, irrelevant. Pulpsters should not expect to hear cogent explanations as to why taxes have risen so in the last decade, except, of course, here at the fiercely non-partisan Pulp. \\ \\ === February 2009 === \\ ===== Nom De Plumes A Threat To Progressive Groupthink ===== ==== Press The Image To Hear Elvisboy77 Explain His Fame ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/{{:ho:turning_japanese_vapors_clip.mp3|{{:ho:elvisboy77_man_mystery.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ //Nom de plumes//, the use of an anonymous or false name to concel one's identity, are a hallowed American tradition in the expression of ideas. Why? Because those who can’t stand the author’s message often resort to attacking the author. If you don’t know who the author is, then who do you attack? Usually, the answer is the party publishing the message. In most progressive communities, the concept and heritage of anonymous publishing would be embraced. One must judge the message alone on its content. One can’t engage in judgment based on the messenger if anonymity is involved. Knowledge of the author cuts both ways. For many unthinking or dogmatic progressives, who the author is decides acceptance of the message. If the author is liked, then the message can be accepted without serious thinking. If the author is disliked, then no matter how insightful the message, it can’t be accepted. Locally, the [[http://blogs.newsobserver.com/orangechat|Orange Chat]] newspaper blog of the News and Observer has been struggling with how to deal with posters not using their real names. One of its posters uses the //nom de plume// “elvisboy77”. He is a self-described “International Man of Mystery” who is “big in Japan”. In the words of Chapel Hill News editor Mark Schultz, “//elvisboy77 is our most prolific commenter. He cuts through the prevailing political logic. And he occasionally offends.//” Translation, elvisboy77 doesn’t agree with most of the Orange Progressive commentators dishing out "groupthink". He or she has crossed pens with such local political pundits as Mr. Fred Black, [[ss:mm| Mr. Marc Marcoplos]], Mr. Brian Russell, and [[ss:rs| Ms. Ruby Sinreich]]. Interestingly, all of these luminaries want to know, who is elvisboy77? Do they want to know in order to applaud him? No. Do they want to know so as to help him in his private endeavors? No. Do they want to know to better understand his message. No. They want to know for one purpose. They want to see if they can apply pressure for him to stop. Chapelboro is a factory town. If elvisboy77 is a UNC employee, then how simple would it be to make him stop? If, elvisboy77 is an N&O reporter, as one reader thought, then how simple would it be to make him stop? //Nom de plumes// are all about freeing the author from coercion or extortion. How easy is it to get to someone through their children, who must attend a system dominated by Orange Progressives? For Mr. Marcoplos, ”//I don't understand why anonymity is being celebrated & encouraged here when there has been considerable effort to get contributors to register and to achieve more honest dialogue. ... His posts most resemble stall graffiti. He is also Exhibit "A" on the type of tripe that gets posted when someone doesn't have the guts to post under their own name.//” Yes, for Mr. Marcoplos, who supported [[ss:dc| Alderman Dan Coleman]] in not resigning when he lied to the public about using his car to assault a woman, honest dialogue requires knowing the author. As Mr. Marcoplos said to elvisboy77 in [[http://blogs.newsobserver.com/orangechat/editors-desk-should-we-require-names-when-printing-blog-posts|Orange Chat]], "//So elvisboy, you realize that your anonymous comments will have less effect on changing the problems you comment upon than if you took full responsibility. So the net effect is that all these people choosing anonymity becuase [sic] of fears of backlash, actually facilitate the system that wants to discourage critical feedback. So what to do? I doubt criticizing those who take responsibility for their statements, but disagree with you, is going to help - this even erodes what's left of your anonymous credibility.//" Ms. Sinreich, follows her //ad hominem// habits for those who don’t agree with her. She has accused elvisboy77 of being a former Pulp poster under the //nom de plume// of Jessie Beard. That it’s not true is of little importance. (Back in its open forum days, Ms. Beard published facts about Ms. Sinreich’s privileged upbringing, her [[ph:start#bourgeoise_rentier|bourgeoise rentier]], trust fund [[ph:start#poseur|poseur]] status, which didn’t match her Chapelboro persona of coming from humble beginnings. Ms. Sinreich vehemently objected to the publication of contrary facts.) Curiously, the miasma of Orange Progressive conspiracy involves this humble publication. Apparently, the mastermind behind the Pulp is none other than elvisboy77, at least it was in the mind of Mr. Russell, Ms. Sinreich’s spouse. Thankfully, that erroneous assumption has been put to rest by none other than elvisboy77. In his or her [[http://blogs.newsobserver.com/orangechat/me-and-elvis-part-2| words]], “//That cracks me up.//” \\ \\ === Janaury 2009 === \\ ===== Political Anarchist and Media Darling Sinreich Calls Domestication Of Animals "Whacky", As Chapel Hill Herds Cats Indoors ===== ==== Press The Image To Hear Chapelboro Cat Herders At Work ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/{{:ho:herding_cats.mp3|{{:ho:ruby_cat_leash.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ In most American towns the guerrilla warfare between cats and birds is a part of nature’s landscape. Not so in southern Orange, where pet owners must control every action of their pets, denying them fulfillment of their natural instincts. Recently the town of Chapel Hill received a petition from a resident (Ms. Anne Johnson) to change the town’s existing dog leash ordinance to include cats. (Surprisingly, the town of Cary, North Carolina is ahead of Chapel Hill in having a cat leash ordinance.) The Chapel Hill Town Council chose to reject a cat leash ordinance at this time. However, the town staff reminded everyone that under existing Chapel Hill town ordinances, a cat owner must contain their cat to their own property, which amounts to a //de facto// cat leash ordinance. In response to the town’s actions, anarchist and local media political analyst [[ss:rs|Ms. Ruby Sinreich]], who says she “//swore off pets 20 years ago//", declares that “//[b]y domesticating animals, humans have thrown things out of whack.//” Admitting that she still has cats as pets, she further opines,”// I guess I will just have to live with the guilt because I can't give up my cats or their happiness. Add it to the list of compromises we make to live in this society.//” Local Orange Progressives eagerly awaited the next delphic pronouncement from Ms. Sinreich after her call last year for the [[ss:rs#ruby_sinreich_elevated_by_chapel_hill_news_to_local_political_analyst_position_sinreich_responds_by_calling_for_eradication_of_capitalism|eradication of capitalism]]. After pronouncing domesticated animals to be environmentally "whacky", one can only guess what the [[ph:start#bourgeoise_rentier|Oracle of Bourgeoise Rentiers]] will say next. (See [[http://www.dailytarheel.com/news/city/council_split_on_issue_of_panhandling_downtown| Daily Tar Heel Cat Herding Story]].) \\ \\ === August 2008 === \\ ===== Want to be a Local Junketeer Without Using Your Money? Follow the Exploits of Political (and Now Junket) Expert Ruby Sinreich ===== ==== Press the Image to Hear Ms. Sinreich Explain ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/ho:lynryd_skynyrd_best_things_in_life_clip.mp3|{{:ho:anarchist_flag_sinreich.jpg?350x300}}]] \\ \\ Local Orange Progressives are famous for the “I can justify anything I want” mindset. A stunning demostration has recently been given by [[ss:rs|local political expert Ms. Ruby Sinreich]]. At the same time that she condemns an upcoming visit to Ann Arbor Michigan[[ho:august_2008#bad_economic_times_not_if_you_are_on_the_a_list_for_a_local_political_junket| Pulp Ann Arbor Junket Story]] as "political junketeering", she accepts moneys (presumably tax deductible) from the local tax exempt establishment planning the junket so as to attend that very same junket. Pulp readers wishing to party on free junkets should pay close attention. On 11 July 2008, Ms. Sinreich was unfortunately not on the junket “A list” (not to be confused with the list of local political anarchists) going to Ann Arbor at taxpayer expense. So she dissed the trip organizers. However, her dissing was measured, showing she could be had to go. At that time she said “//I'd be willing to go under certain circumstances, but I would not pay my own money for a junket that promotes someone else's agenda. (Plus I couldn't afford it, even I wanted to pay.) If I did go, it would mostly be as a blogger so that I could get better informed and tell others what actually goes on, what is learned, etc. It seems like one the main benefits of these trips is better relations between the participants, who are already the connected power brokers in town from the university, government, business, and nonprofit worlds. They could certainly save money and include more people by having a conference or retreat here in NC and bringing in experts from other places.//” Then Ms. Sinreich used the classic teenager justification, “but mom and dad, all the other kids are doing it”. In her words, “//Some of the organizers strongly encouraged me to go, and I thought long and hard and about whether I would even want to participate in this event if it was logistically possible. Would I feel ethical being a part of something that I have criticized and will continue to scrutinize? I think it's possible to engage and critique at the same time, but it's a thin tight rope to walk.//" Ms. Sinreich capped this logical legerdemain with the Nixonian argument, “I can’t stop it from happening anyway”. In her words, “//I also felt that, given that I can't stop this trip and redirect the extravagant budget - at least not this year, the community would benefit from some reporting on the event that lets them know where all that time and money is going. I have no doubt that there will be some valuable experiences to be had on the trip, but you can expect me to be just as vocally critical as I am of everything else (it's the only way I know how to be). I hope that my presence will help some of the more hesitant community leaders see that blogging can even be good for the community and their own institutions.//" So after dissing the tax exempt real estate development establishment to get their attention, Ms. Sinreich then applies for a grant from them. Again in her words, “//My primary goal would be to observe and blog about the goings on, including observations of Ann Arbor, and existing and emerging connections between the participants. I think the readers of [my censored blog] will be very interested to share in the trip's learnings and it will also be a platform for sharing information with the wider community since the media will not be providing extensive coverage of the trip and it's findings. I hope the participants will also utilize [my censored blog] (or any other blogging platform) to publicly share their own reflections and engage in a dialog so that more of the community can benefit from the trip.//” Unfortunately for Ms. Sinreich, the tax exempt payoff grant only covers about 65% of the cost. In true [[ph:start#OPie|OPie]] fashion, Ms. Sinreich apparently doesn’t intend to use a dime of her money for this junket. How can she go for nothing out of her pocket? She solicits her blog readers for contributions, pleading poverty. Of course, Ms. Sinreich doesn’t tell her readers about her recent vacation on the Outer Banks beaches or the fact that she and her spouse own two homes. Only certain morbid details of one’s life should be blogged endlessly. \\ \\ === April 2008 === ===== Chapel Hill Gentrifying Developer Advocates Capping Tax Rate Increases for Gentrifying Areas, Local Gentrifying Rentier Sinreich Declares Gentrification “Complicated" ===== ==== Press the Image to Hear Gentrifying Winners' Response ==== [[http://squeezethepulp.com/w/_media/{{ho:got_mine_glenn_frey_clip.mp3|{{ho:greenbridge_aerial.jpg?350x350}}]] \\ \\ Greenbridge developer Ben Toben is building a 100 unit luxury condominium project with prices over $1,000,000 at the corner of Graham and West Rosemary Streets. (Pulpsters should note that the local stenographers prefer to speak about an average price (over $500,000) and not reflect how high the unit prices extend.) This site is near below median housing in the Northside and Pine Knoll neighborhoods. Post approval of the Greenbridge development, local affordable housing advocates are noticing that the introduction of luxury condos puts market pressure on the prices of local existing housing, raising the prices. Rising prices mean rising //ad valorem// property taxes. Having gotten his profits approved by the town council without considering the tax effects of his development on neighbors, Mr. Toben now says “Why should Northside and its residents have to contribute more in taxes?” He calls for capping the property tax rate in areas he and his associates are gentrifying. In response, local political analyst, former Chapel Hill Planning Board member, Orange Politics blog censor, “dances with bricks” anarchist, Carrboro Mayor Chilton backer, trustafarian disciple, and affected Northside //bourgeoisie rentier// (see [[ph:start# bourgeoisie_rentier | Phictionary]]) Ruby Sinreich didn’t oppose Mr. Toben's Greenbridge project now or during the approval process, but instead commented in response to Mr. Toben's statements “//The thing about gentrification is it’s complicated. Every day downtown is more valuable whether you build this or not.//” See [[http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/13910.html | CHN Greenbridge Story]]. === February 2008 === ===== Rebuke to Call for Eradication of Capitalism by Local Political Analyst Ruby Sinreich ===== {{ho:capitalism_kills_small.jpg?350x350}} Former Soviet Union citizen responds to local media darling, former Chapel Hill Planning Board member, Orange Politics blog censor, “dances with bricks” anarchist, Mayor Chilton backer, wannabe affordable housing bourgeoisie rentier, and trustafarian disciple Ruby Sinreich. In a stunning rebuke to Ms. Sinreich’s answer to poverty – the eradication of capitalism, Ms. Tatiana Cherednik asks if Ms. Sinreich’s solution is “//a joke or does she appeal to ignorant people who haven't followed recent history//?” Ms. Cherednik points out for Ms. Sinreich’s benefit that “//Every attempt to "eradicate capitalism" has killed millions, made countless millions poor and miserable and the excuse that "they didn't do it right" is not serious, either, as people who have lived in "socialist havens" and studied Marxism for years can testify.//” Ms. Cherednik asks Ms. Sinreich to share with all of humanity her serious solutions to end poverty. No word on Ms. Sinreich’s response to Ms. Cherednik, or the salvation of humanity. See [[http://www.chapelhillnews.com/opinion/letters/story/12650.html| N&O Cherednik Letter]]. === February 2008 === ===== Ruby Sinreich Elevated by Chapel Hill News to Local Political Analyst Position, Sinreich Responds by Calling for Eradication of Capitalism ===== {{ho:anarchist_flag_sinreich.jpg|}} In the 3 February 2008 edition of the local real estate advertiser (the Chapel Hill News) local media darling, former Chapel Hill Planning Board member, Orange Politics blog censor, “dances with bricks” anarchist, Mayor Chilton backer, wannabe affordable housing bourgeoisie //rentier//, and trustafarian disciple Ruby Sinreich was anointed as a local political analyst. Ms. Sinreich was involved in a roundtable discussion of Mr. Edwards’ recent decision to withdraw from the 2008 Democratic presidential race. Ms. Sinreich pronounced that Mr. Edwards was unable to “break through” the national media decision that the race belonged to Mr. Obama or Ms. Clinton. She was silent on her inability to use her vaunted local media and political skills to help Mr. Edwards with such a breakthrough, matching her noticeable silence in not asking Mr. Edwards to speak out about the Rogers Road environmental injustice problems of all the local candidates she has backed for almost a decade. Tax-exempt and non-profit business owner, Ms. Sinreich goes on to say that she supports Mr. Edwards’ agenda to fight poverty, noting “I don’t think [poverty is] going to be eliminated until capitalism is eradicated”. No word on Ms. Sinreich’s plans to visit Mr. Edwards with a copy of the USDOJ/EPA environmental injustice complaint against the Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Orange County governments. No comment from fellow anarchist Alderman Dan Coleman on how capitalism will be ended in Carrboro. See Ms. Sinreich's scintillating discussion of Mr. Edwards’ announcement of his campaign [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp-9mORNerU|Sinreich youtube video]]. See [[http://www.chapelhillnews.com/front/story/12503.html|Chapel Hill News Analyst Story]]