Comments on: Commissioner House caught up in Social Media War of Words http://harnettnews.org/?p=590 Giving You The News Impartially, Without Fear or Favor Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:14:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Harnett Native http://harnettnews.org/?p=590#comment-14621 Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:50:13 +0000 http://harnettnews.org/?p=590#comment-14621 I think when House mentions the “Regulators” he is referring to “The Regulator Movement” in colonial North Carolina. It was made up of a group of disgruntled farmers in the backcountry (Piedmont) that protested against corrupt officials. Their concerns involved sheriffs and county clerks overtaxing and pocketing a portion of the money collected, the lack of fair representation in the General Assembly, and a failure by the eastern NC power structure to address the needs of their region. The colonial assembly financed “Tryon Palace”, an extravagant governor’s mansion while there were no good roads or mail service in the west. The movement ended when the colonial militia, led by Governor Tryon defeated the Regulators at the Battle of Alamance.

I’m sure Mr. House would like to view his crusade as one as noble as that of the Regulators of our past, but I just don’t see it. They weren’t paranoid conspiracy theorists.

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