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is committed to all types of waterfront activities for all sportsmen, enthusiasts, and conservationists. As our populations increase, all water sources are threatened. A moder- ate balance is needed in ensure that policies are created to be inclusive and not exclusive. There are strong movements by extreme environmentalists on one side and overdevelopment on the other. They join forces to create an overabundance of policies that fuels an elitist, overcomplicated, impossible to ad- minister, environmentalist development machine with overpriced engineering. This combination is slowly pric- ing many people out of the recreation equation. We are committed to protecting water quality and promoting quality of life by moderate environmental policies that will support water activities and enable use and access to all sportsman and enthusiasts. We feel that this commitment by Waterfront Sportsman will serve as a unifying presence in the outdoor marketplace. Our commitment will merge a broad array of waterfront interests and serve to educate the general public as to the importance of working with our environment Waterfront Sportsman A lot of folks are not aware of the fact that Dale Swiggett is a native resident of Burlington and that he has recently brought his fight for water quality issues back to his home court. Recently, NC DENR came up w/ the very contro- versial Lake Jordan Rules w/ a price tag of initially $140+ million dollars that made the Triad area balk. Due to the public outcry, that price tag dropped to $14+ million dollars. The city of Burlington was ready to accept this deal and place yet another bur- den onto area taxpayers (who are not too happy w/ their current property reevaluations). Dale and the other members of the Environmental Investigation Coalition (EIC) recognized the band aid offered to cover up the root of the problem, which is the com- mon practice of sludge spreading. One of EIC's members, Prof. Don Yelton, has of- fered up a better alternative called the River Based Basin Incentive program (RBBI). What is the differ- ence between DENR's proposal and Don's option? The fact that his program would actually REWARD taxpayers by providing tax breaks instead of levying yet another unnecessary tax on already stressed out taxpayers. For those of you who are interested in find- ing out a little bit about Don Yelton's proposal, just go to http://greensboro.craigslist.org/pol/ 1070280903.html to see a synopsis of his plan. Yes, our group sheds light on environmental prob- lems, inadequate policies and the agencies that cost us taxpayers more and give us nothing back in re- turn. But we go one step further - we think outside the box and offer up creative solutions. And a few of our great state's legislators are listening and recog- nizing the validity of what we are trying to do for all North Carolinians. Waterfront Sportsman and the EIC have given Rep. Cary Allred (Alamance) three dif- ferent Bills to support and offer up on Jones Street in Raleigh. One is the RBBI plan, another is alerting the gen- eral public about the health issues from sludge expo- sure, and the last is calling for all land transactions to have full environmental disclosure in order to pro- tect unsuspecting consumers. At some point years ago, all deeds featured an environmental disclosure but mysteriously that was eliminated from the real estate transaction process. It's not just that land own- ers are defaulting on their mortgages due to the down- turn of our economy but the fact that their collateral is BAD due to a host of envi- ronmental reasons (e.g., subsidence of waterfront property in our coastal coun- ties, sludge adversely affecting property). And for those folks out there who don't know a whole lot about bio-solids, or more commonly known as sludge, just check out a short video clip featuring Nancy Holt. http://greensboro.craigslist.org/vnn/ 1083402252.html After all, it is WE the PEOPLE who ultimately pay the price. Everyone in tax dollars, others w/ their health and lives. How Lake Jordan Rules Evolved to Proposed Legislation Waterfront Sportsman vol 2009 issue 4.1 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com
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is committed to all types of waterfront activities for all sportsmen, enthusiasts, andconservationists. As our populations increase, all water sources are threatened. A moder-ate balance is needed in ensure that policies are created to be inclusive and not exclusive.
There are strong movements by extreme environmentalists on one side and overdevelopment on the other.They join forces to create an overabundance of policies that fuels an elitist, overcomplicated, impossible to ad-minister, environmentalist development machine with overpriced engineering. This combination is slowly pric-ing many people out of the recreation equation.
We are committed to protecting water quality and promoting quality of life by moderate environmentalpolicies that will support water activities and enable use and access to all sportsman and enthusiasts.
We feel that this commitment by Waterfront Sportsman will serve as a unifying presence in the outdoormarketplace. Our commitment will merge a broad array of waterfront interests and serve to educate the generalpublic as to the importance of working with our environment
WaterfrontSportsman
A lot of folks are notaware of the fact thatDale Swiggett is a nativeresident of Burlingtonand that he has recently
brought his fight for water quality issues back to hishome court.
Recently, NC DENR came up w/ the very contro-versial Lake Jordan Rules w/ a price tag of initially$140+ million dollars that made the Triad area balk.Due to the public outcry, that price tag dropped to$14+ million dollars. The city of Burlington wasready to accept this deal and place yet another bur-den onto area taxpayers (who are not too happy w/their current property reevaluations). Dale and theother members of the Environmental InvestigationCoalition (EIC) recognized the band aid offered tocover up the root of the problem, which is the com-mon practice of sludge spreading.
One of EIC's members, Prof. Don Yelton, has of-fered up a better alternative called the River BasedBasin Incentive program (RBBI). What is the differ-ence between DENR's proposal and Don's option?The fact that his program would actually REWARDtaxpayers by providing tax breaks instead of levyingyet another unnecessary tax on already stressed outtaxpayers. For those of you who are interested in find-
ing out a little bit about Don Yelton's proposal, justgo to http://greensboro.craigslist.org/pol/1070280903.html to see a synopsis of his plan.
Yes, our group sheds light on environmental prob-lems, inadequate policies and the agencies that costus taxpayers more and give us nothing back in re-turn. But we go one step further - we think outsidethe box and offer up creative solutions. And a few ofour great state's legislators are listening and recog-nizing the validity of what we are trying to do for allNorth Carolinians. Waterfront Sportsman and the EIChave given Rep. Cary Allred (Alamance) three dif-ferent Bills to support and offer up on Jones Street inRaleigh.
One is the RBBI plan, another is alerting the gen-eral public about the health issues from sludge expo-sure, and the last is calling for all land transactionsto have full environmental disclosure in order to pro-tect unsuspecting consumers. At some point yearsago, all deeds featured an environmental disclosurebut mysteriously that was eliminated from the realestate transaction process. It's not just that land own-ers are defaulting on their mortgages due to the down-turn of our economybut the fact that theircollateral is BADdue to a host of envi-ronmental reasons(e.g., subsidence ofwaterfront propertyin our coastal coun-ties, sludge adversely affecting property).
And for those folks out there who don't know awhole lot about bio-solids, or more commonly knownas sludge, just check out a short video clip featuringNancy Holt. http://greensboro.craigslist.org/vnn/1083402252.html
After all, it is WE the PEOPLE who ultimatelypay the price. Everyone in tax dollars, others w/ theirhealth and lives.
How Lake Jordan Rules
Evolved to Proposed
Legislation
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As I stand beforeyou to recant astory of the lastseveral years, Iwould like for youto think back to thebus stop bench inthe movie ForrestGump. This isbecause many
people kind of think of me as the Forrest Gump ofthe Environment and Equality.
Just as Tom Hanks portrayed an average personliving an unbelievable story, it was made believablebecause the story was intermittent with facts fromevents that knew were true. It became believablebecause we could visualize and recall what we weredoing during the Vietnam War and the PoliticalAssassinations.
We all have our date books and sticky notes offond and eventful memories we have shared together.Some of us find our park benches and attentive ears,others just keep on walking.
When I turned back my date book of life to a stickynote of a bus ride, it was not the wait but the ride thatI recall.
As a right of passage for me as young boy was toride the bus from Burlington to Greensboro to seemy grand parents, when the bus turned off Lee St.onto Elm St. in Greensboro, I witnessed somethingfrom the 1st window seat behind the driver that wouldstay for me forever.
I saw protesters in front of the Woolworth 5&dime.When my Granddad picked me up, I asked him
what are they were doing outside in the cold. Hesaid they were hungry for equality. I asked him, “Whatis that?”
He responded, “It is everything we take forgranted.”
Several years later, I was celebrating the 1st manto walk on the moon with a couple hundred Boy
Scouts. I was BoyScout camp counselorthe 1st year ofintegration forCherokee Counsel.
We frequently sangthe Camp theme songabout conscience -“the eyes of Cherokeeare on you all the livelong days.” Little did Iknow at that time, itwould be the only timein my life thateveryone would bereading from the samebook about theenvironment andequality at the sametime.
With the benefit ofa good compass for life, another Forrest GumpEnvironmental event slapped me in the face. I wastraveling North on Hwy 581 and passed a tanker truckopenly discharging fluids 8-12 inches onto theshoulder of the road.
Little did I know I had personally witnessed thedumping of Toxic PCB’s on the side of the road thatwould extend over 200 miles of rural roads. The PCBDumping would lead to the start of the EnvironmentalInjustice Movement nationally.
Many years later I found myself as a Developertrying to figure out the most cost efficient means ofconstruction. Having raised a family, I was fortunateto have lived in housing much above average.
I soon found myself trying to construct a roof overmany people’s heads that in most cases would havea hard time buying a car. But they had a patch of landthat they wanted to come home to at the end of theday.
The Redneck Environmentalist Storyof Dale Swiggett
Becoming the Waterfront Sports-man voice was just another careerpath for me. I had to produce myown forum in order to educate thegeneral public about what I seeas terribly wrong with our currentenvironmental policies and self-serving agents taking gross ad-vantage of taxpayers’ ignoranceand apathy.
“Because this sign is in the wrongtown, I asked a question. Andthat’s when I fell down theproverbial Alice’s Rabbit Hole,trying to find answers to a wholelot of other questions”
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During this effort, I learned 1st hand the importanceproperty rights, and infrastructure options for propertyowners.
For many, affordable options are critical to keepthe legacy of preserving family land, and is the hopethat keeps many families together.
As a father of four, reality soon set in when my 3sons got out of school and decided that should comeback home and help Dad with his business.
The Tom Sawyer of the three, who had worked atSeagull in Pamlico County as a counselor, suggestedwe should build in Pamlico County.
The overall variety of different skill sets betweenthe boys benefited the family effort in a start-to-finish-do-everything-ourselves approach.
The knowledge and understanding of true cost,planning, and permitting of our own projects soonwould be a key component in uncovering what islikely to become the largest Environmental and RacialInjustice in the history of North Carolina.
Dale’s story continued______________
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Dale’s story will be continued in thefollowing newsletters to come
You are not alone....there are others out there whoare unhappy, mad as hell and not gonna’ take it anylonger!
The unifying theme is for everyone to slip a singletea bag or just the label in an envelope and send it onto the White House. Maybe even send the same toour illustrious Congressmen and women - becausewe all know it is this particular body of folks whowork for us but have seem to run amok with stupidityand lack of a backbone, or worse, a streak of greed.
And on Tax Day, April 15th, WFS will be rightalongside FreedomWorks.org, a statewide networkof Tarheels upset about their property rights. Comejoin us in downtown Raleigh!
It has been said that I was pretty good conceptperson and with two case studies done at UNC ChapelHill on my marketing models of “Great Mistakes”and won awards for ads, but as a Whistle blower Iwas quite frustrated when I could not get the wordout on all the corruption in Pamlico County. So witha plain screen on my note book, I tried to approachWhistle Blowing as a business defined by a businessplan.
Information and facts were my inventory. Publicdocuments were my warranties to back up theinformation. Visual aids were my advertising. Mypersonal experiences and values were my equity. Ina business all success begins and ends with patterns.Crooks are lazy and always do again what has workedin the past.
All whistleblowers agree your competition isalways corruption and cover ups. In business and war,you define your competition’s perimeters, eclipse theperimeters, and you are successful.
In business you always want good models.Waterfront Sportsman models were John Walsh’s
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The Environmental
Investigation CoalitionIn a nutshell, out of Waterfront Sportsman grew a
whole other group dedicated to the mission ofpursuing the bad guys who insist on profiting at theexpense of taxpayers’ dollars and their health bycreating and manipulating inadequate environmentalpolicies.
While Dale sat in Eugene Boyce’s law officediscussing the particulars of research and discovery,Gene coined the group’s name, the EnvironmentalInvestigation Coalition (EIC). Very quickly, a groupof talented individuals spanning legal, real estate,academic, and other professions banned together tocorrect some serious wrongs.
At their own expense, this group now travelsaround the region educating the public about all theserious water quality issues. This becomes extremelyexpensive and any donation and/or contribution isgladly appreciated to help offset the costs of educatingthe general public to water quality issues.
To see a recent speaking engagement, go toYouTube.com and just type in ‘waterfront sportsman’and there will be several segments featuring variousspeakers. In total, there are 9 segments of 7 differentspeakers. Fern Shubert joins our group as a speakersince she reports on the EIC’s findings, which oftenclosely parallel her own research efforts.
For more information on EIC, go to WFS’s websitewww.waterfrontsportsman.com and click on EIC.
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America’s most wanted. John Walsh knew hisquestions were not getting answers or results. So theother model was Mothers Against Drunk Driving(MADD), and was successful by going into court.
Waterfront Sportsman was created to get resultsby reinvented a new process to get answers andresults, and use the aggressive mothers in the facemethods to beat corrupt district Attorney’s, defenseattorneys and judges in court.
Waterfront Sportsman’s Mission is protecting theenvironment and quality of life. Just like withMADD, Waterfront Sportsman plan to use theaggressive mothers and fathers in the face methodsto beat corrupt district Attorney’s, defense attorneysand judges in court.
Waterfront Sportsman is committed to stop thecorrupt dirty tricks defense attorneys who areprotecting the professional poisoners for profit andthe lying, stealing insurance companies that areruining the environment and peoples quality of life.
Waterfront Sportsman is watching out for youbecause no one else is. With your help we will alwaystry to be there as my Dad, R. Horace Swiggett a DukeLaw 1957 personal injury attorney would tell me,“son you have to keep hope alive for those who needhope the most and beat the crooked defense attorneysat their own game “.
Waterfront Sportsman wants to do for our lovedones people, dogs, horses, and the environment whatDucks Unlimited has done for water fowl andenvironment.
Whistleblowing continued________________
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That’s how I fell into this whole whistleblowingepisode of my life. I really am a developer at heartbut one who believes in creating in conjunction withNature, in a responsible and beneficial manner.
And there’s a whole other side of what I do thatreally excites me, which is Waterfront SportsmanInvestments Group. My dream is to work withtalented professionals to provide wonderful resortdestinations catering to eco-tourism.
Dennis Sparks heads up this economicdevelopment arm of Waterfront Sportsman.
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Each suite will reflect all facets of the WaterfrontSportsman themes dogs, horses, hunting, fishing,camping, boating and golf.
Jeff Liscum with GearOne in Marietta, GA hasdone product development and internationalresourcing for major companies; NCAA, MajorLeague Baseball, NASCAR, Daytona Bike Week andthe US Olympics. Jeff will head up the licensing andproduct development effort to make the Waterfront
Dennis Sparks336.616.2627, [email protected]
Jeff Liscum770.423.7300, [email protected]
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International acclaimedartist Grace Li Wang will bethe WFS Premier Artist.Grace will work hand in handwith Molly Schlacter the WFSPremier photographer who also is noted as theforemost K 9 Photographer in the United States tocreate genuine WFS original images to be replicatedon WFS products. In my work developing product,major catalog brands and products for HarleyDavidson, Bike Week and NASCAR, correct imageswere difficult to develop. With Grace and Molly whoboth have degrees in Design, I feel we have the besteyes for designs, originality and creativity to fill our500,000 sq.ft.living showcase.
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As a businessman-turned-whistleblower, the oneskill that carried over was the ability to turn on adime and change to reflect the reality of our currentenvironment. My intention was to print and distributea high quality full color magazine but in just 12months time, things have changed dramatically. Theprospect of printing and not recouping our costs isdaunting to say the least, especially when it seemsevery other printed newspaper and magazine is goinginto bankruptcy or just shutting down period.
So, as one door closes, another one opens andhere we are, introducing the very first weekly e-zinenewsletter from Waterfront Sportsman!
Behind the scenes of WFS and the EnvironmentalInvestigation Coalition (EIC), a LOT goes on! Thingschange an a daily basis sometimes. So, producing aweekly review for our subscribers seemed a perfectcombination of great stories and editorials while alsogetting up-to-date news to everyone in a timelyfashion, especially on legislation matters.
You will receive the first three weekly WFSe-zine/newsletter for free. If you like what you seeand want to stay informed about water quality issuesand enjoy our contributing writers and photography,then be sure to get us your subscription for one year,$12 via snail mail or go to our websitewww.waterfrontsportsman.com to sign up usingPayPal.
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