Before we delve into the warnings of wisdom of the approaching political season, let me put forth and publish a handful of harm avoidance advice, relative to several local businesses here in central North Carolina.
Piedmont Natural Gas is a government protected, monopolistic utility company that doesn't give a tinker's damn about true customer service. Despite their insistent droning to the contrary, they refuse to spend any of the hundreds of millions of dollars of annual net profit to hire an adequate amount of field technicians to properly and promptly respond to customers' requests for attention.
To put it simply and succinctly, GMA/ First Point Resources are liars and thieves with no sense of honor or integrity.
This is a three person operation housed in a low rent location, which has no care or concern for its clients and which will go to great lengths to try their very best not to help, but to dishonorably and dishonestly harm their contracted employees, to their benefit.
Steer clear of these miscreants.