EDITIORIAL >> Icy reception for repairmen

[babsbunny]

http://www.arkansasleader.com/2009/02/editiorial-icy-reception-for-repairmen.html

Madison County, the rugged mountain county south of Fayetteville through which the beautiful drive known as the Pig Trail traverses, does not make the news very often. Never would suit us better.

The Madison County Record, the sprightly weekly newspaper published at Huntsville, the county seat, broke the news first, but the nature of it guaranteed some national attention. Some 100 workers from Pennsylvania, about a third of them African Americans, came down to help the local electric cooperative restore power after the devastating ice storm last month took down just about every power pole in the county. They worked tirelessly clearing trees and putting up poles and lines in the ice and freezing rain to try to speed power to people.

[cliffordu]

1. Those guys are the reason God invented cancer.

I hope they all rot in hell.

[JVS]

2. Ok, I think we've just found a new place to store nuclear waste!

[stevedeshazer]

3. An ungrateful bunch of racists

They'd rather go without electricity than see African Americans in their backwards little county.

[Wapsie B]

4. And Arkansas is one state where the gop actually gained strength last election.

Who'd a thunk it? :sarcasm:

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. The crews should have all loaded back up, and...

Told them that they wished them the very best in turning their power back on as they headed out to go home.

Maybe the next time the county needs help, they will make damn sure their back-wards kin folk are kept away from the people trying to help them.