KERR LAKE PARK WATCH’S EXPERIENCE SAYS SOSSAMON CANNOT BE TRUSTED – THREW THE VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION UNDER THE BUS
You might ask, why Kerr Lake Park Watch have you waited to expose Frank Sossamon’s shortcomings of trust pretending to help the group while leaking information and plotting with the other side a large issue.
1) It took almost a year and a half to get the true, honest information that Kerr Lake Park Watch and the public had been lied to, when attorneys with the State of North Carolina finally admitted that.
2) About that time, Frank Sossamon was defeated in his bid for relection to the House District 32 seat. Thus, it seemed like a moot point.
But now Sossamon has returned with his pious and pastoral platform and we think someone needs to know the truth that around a dozen of us heard and were stunned out of our seats. Read or not, you’ve been warned.
Site of the joint meeting with NC State Parks,
Kerr Lake Park Watch, and Legislator
Frank Sossamon
𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐒𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐍 & 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇: 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐁𝐋𝐄
A couple of years ago the man, the legislator, the pastor, Frank Sossamon, totally threw Kerr Lake Park Watch under the bus, and violated confidences, feeding information to the other side of the table in a controversy of where Kerr Lake Park Watch was trying to help the public become more involved and have a stronger voice in the NC State Recreation Areas at Kerr.
Things were proceeding in a toxic manner at the seven North Carolina recreation areas on Kerr Lake. Management at the lake turned a deaf ear to the public and to many veteran employees, and instituted harsh and often unresponsive tactics in dealing with the public users of the seven state recreation areas. It was operating in a vacuum, as it still does today.
In an effort to improve the situation Kerr Lake Park Watch set up a meeting in the fall of 2023. It was attended by the Kerr Lake park officials and by the
director and assistant director of North Carolina State Parks. Likewise, it was attended by steering committee members, members of KLPW and a handful of campers.
Every item on the agenda which had previously been discussed with no one outside of Kerr Lake Park Watch except with Frank Sossamon, was then addressed with an already prepared answer from the parks staff. And those answers, could have only come from knowing the questions in advance of the meeting, and coming directly from Frank Sossamon.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆, 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝑺𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒏, 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒕.
It took almost a year of effort by Kerr Lake Park Watch and its attorney, to get information, public information that should have readily been available under NC open meeting laws.
𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝘾 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙉 𝘾 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙩, 𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙚𝙧𝙧 𝙇𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙚:
(1) 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙,
(2) 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙚𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙
(3) 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚, 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖 𝙣𝙤𝙣-𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙚.
Frank Sossamon was involved up to his neck in that debacle, a blatant violation in trust, all hampering the efforts of an all volunteer group whose purpose is the promotion, the improvement and the protection of all public lands and facilities around Kerr Lake.
The late actor Andy Griffith years ago told me and others about honesty saying, “𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭.”
But no matter what political rhetoric is bounced regarding Frank Sossamon, a dozen of us know the truth. And so should you.