Kyle Busch Loses / Public Wins - Commissioners Rule 6-0 Against His Opposition to Fueling Center

In mid-May I posted an article about Kyle Busch Motorsports opposing a convenience store / fueling center being built near its race shop.

http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/forum/topics/kyle-busch-says-no-cites-security-concerns

Well, the verdict is in and Kyle has lost again. Mooresville, NC commissioners think the center is an excellent fit.

Hurray for the General Public, I say!!

Kyle Busch loses fight against fueling center
By Joe Marusak - jmarusak@charlotteobserver.com
Monday, Jun. 18, 2012

Kyle Busch Motorsports lost its fight Monday night to keep a convenience store, restaurant and truck fueling center from opening near its $11 million shop on Mazeppa Road in Mooresville.

The Mooresville Board of Commissioners voted 6-to-0 to grant a permit allowing Mooresville-based Thunder Road Market LLC to locate the businesses at Mazeppa and Thunder roads across from Overhead Bridge Road.

Commissioners ruled that the project wont hurt nearby properties, despite contentions to the contrary by officials from Kyle Busch Motorsports and a neighboring wind tunnel.

I think its a good fit for the employee base in that area, commissioner Thurman Houston said. I think its a great project. I wish it had been unanimously supported by everyone in that area.

Curt Swanson, a shift manager at the nearby Cardinal Glass 24-hour manufacturer, said he welcomes the development, where workers could get late-night meals.

Read more here: http://www.thatsracin.com/2012/06/18/89975/kyle-busch-loses-fight-against.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy

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updated by @dave-fulton: 03/10/17 04:44:40AM

Don't know about karma, but John Lennon did say, "The Great Griff moves in mysterious ways his woodwork to perform!"

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Actually, this is the direct quote from Lennon's mysterious 1965 writings:

People are always coming up to me and asking - 'Why, if
Griff is so good anb almighty - why does he bring such
misery into the worId?' - and I can truthfully say St.Alf - ch
8 verse 5 - page 9. 'Griff walks in such mysterious ways
His woodwork to perform'

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Jim... the quote is from "Spaniard" as you identified... I would have never remembered.

Funny, we sat around in a First Year dorm at the University of Virginia in 1966 and took turns reading those passages and passages from "Junior Johnson is the Last American Hero.... Yes!" in the same sessions. What a contrast. A different day and time when we were a little more open to checking out different ideas and trying different stuff.

For me the Junior Johnson stuff stuck, while the John Lennon and Beatles stuff didn't. However, I'll always remember sitting in my favorite beer joint in the summer of 1967 with "Hey Jude" being belted out on the juke box followed by the easy going strains of Scott McKenzie's "If You're Going to San Francisco." It was the "Summer of Love."

Outside, the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), its bearded members dressed in chambray work shirts and jeans contrasting our coats & ties, was protesting our involvement in Vietnam.

I guess comparing that time and place to now is like trying to compare youth to seniors or 60s racing to now. The comparisons get skewed in the remembrances.

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