New Hanover Commission chair calls for three H2Go commissioners to resign

December 1, 2017

Sarah Johnson,

NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — New Hanover County Commission Chair Woody White is calling on three H2Go Commissioners to resign immediately.

White tweeted in part on Thursday night, “This type of covert, secret, and subversive activity by 3 people-that affects the governmental stability of this region-even in a small way – is embarrassing and not worthy of the many advances we have made together.”

He then directly tweeted to H2Go that the commissioners should resign immediately.

3/4 yes, im sure some will say its not my business what happens in @BrunswickGov. But Ive lived in SENC all my life. Along with many people, including @FrankWilliams and many others, I work hard every day to make this region the best it can be.

— Woody White (@WoodyWhite5) December 1, 2017

4/4 But this type of covert, secret, and subversive activity by 3 people-that affects the governmental stability of this region-even in a small way – is embarrassing and not worthy of the many advances we have made together. The 3 comm’s @H2Go_BRWS SHOULD RESIGN immediately.

— Woody White (@WoodyWhite5) December 1, 2017

We reached out to H2Go spokesperson Tyler Wittkofsy about White’s tweets, and he issued this statement to WWAY in response:

“While we all respect Chairman White’s leadership in response to the discovery of GenX, we believe he is mistaken when it comes to his statements about the H2GO transfer to the Town of Belville.

To operators of a water utility, nothing is more important than delivering safe, clean drinking water to our customers.

To public officials, protecting their citizens and community is priority number one.

To those saying that our move to protect the health and well-being of our customers is ignoring the will of the people, we ask them to dig a bit deeper.

In just two years, even as plant opponents were pounding away at H2GO’s work with false narratives, the electorate moved from voting 66% against the plant to 51% for its continued construction.

The top two vote-getters on Election Day were pro-RO candidates, with the third pro-RO candidate coming in fourth by just 19 votes.

The anti-RO candidates came in third, fifth, and sixth respectively.

Belville and H2GO believe this is hardly enough of a mandate to kill a plant that will provide safe, clean water, uncontaminated by the Cape Fear River for decades to come.”