Nottoway Supervisor Dicky Ingram expressed frustration Thursday night about social media comments and other statements made by some citizens.
“I don’t comment (on Facebook) but I read comments that people make…and I always try to consider the source,” Ingram said during a Board work session. “Who made this comment, what drove them to make this comment?”
Ingram concluded, “A lot of people are misled.”
Board Chairman Bill Collins suggested, “Maybe not ‘misled,’ maybe uninformed?”
“No,” said Ingram, “they’re misled. I know they’re misled.”
Ingram said some citizens are relying too much on hearsay, “gossip,” and false comments made on social media. “They’re not getting the facts.”
Ingram recalled a conversation several weeks ago with a new resident who was upset and said she won’t be able to afford the new tax rates. Ingram said he asked her if he was aware of the public hearings held back in May. “I asked her, ‘Did you know anything about it? Do you get the Courier-Record?’ She said no.”
Plot Thickens District Three Supervisor Daphne Norton is shown on video screenshot holding up envelope for Supervisors to see during last week’s Board worksession. The envelope included an anonymous letter threatening to unseat her, if she votes for the proposed Rocky Ford Road solar project. (See today’s lead story.) A public hearing on the Rocky Ford project is set for next Monday, Oct. 20th.
Ingram said the woman’s responses “scared me” and suggest that she’s uninformed. “But I’m also seeing some of the other comments (on social media) that are misleading like I’m ‘born with a silver spoon in my mouth.’”
“Yeah,” Supervisor Daphne Norton agreed, “like we’re lining our own pockets here.”
“And ‘watch your back,’” said Chairman Collins.
Ingram said one citizen “wanted to call State Police and get us removed. I’m thinking to myself, ‘If you people really knew.’”
Collins said, “No matter whose five butts are in these seats, the math would have been the same.”
Ingram said he’s a lifelong resident and the reason he sought the District One seat is “because I’m worried about my county and my district. And when I vote, I vote the majority of the time how people in my district tell me…and I try to inform them when they’re misinformed.”
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