Gordon over at Scrutiny Hooligans covered the Parkside condo discussion at the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting Tuesday night with a live blog that captured all the debate.
He also witnessed a little outburst by developer Stewart Coleman, who apparently didn’t want his picture taken and grabbed at the camera held by Byron Belzak, the man behind DowntownAsheville.com. And I thought I had problems with Boyle.
Check out the Hooligans’ coverage. Here’s Belzak, describing the Coleman meltdown:
As you know, I was “PARKSIDED” tonight by Stewart Coleman, in the flesh, right inside the Buncombe County Commissioners Chamber, which is situated inside the Buncombe County Courthouse and located (for those who don’t know where Buncombe is) in Asheville, North Carolina, USA, one of the “best places to live” and is billed by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce as “Anyway You Like It” — and I didn’t like it.
Yes, indeed, Mr. Parkside himself, i.e., Stewart Coleman, proved to be rude, arrogant and violent on June 24, 2008, at approximately 7:30 p.m., EST.
My story is hard to believe except that I was there with a lot of other people. Tonight I had to deal with Stewart Coleman physically going ballistic on me right inside the Buncombe County Commission Chamber and then again, verbally, right outside in the second-floor hallway of the Buncombe County Courthouse.
As you and others witnessed, Gordon — and you already mentioned this incident here in your blog — I’m the guy you referred to who tried to take a snapshot photograph of Stewart Coleman as he was beginning to leave the Buncombe County Commissioners meeting in Room 204 of the Buncombe County Courthouse tonight.
Here’s the scoop: Stewart Coleman lunged at me, grabbed my hand, squeezed it, and tried to wrestle my camera away. I was stunned. You saw it on my face. The man, the big man, the very one and only richest and most powerful developer in all of Asheville and Buncombe County, Stewart “The Fist” Coleman, was getting physical with me right in front of God and everyone.
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fixed the link, x. thanks!
Catnap!
In front of God? damn.
In your link to downtownasheville.com there is a character at the end of the link that makes it not work.