UPDATE: The News & Record is reporting that the cost of reopening the Greensboro Register of Deeds is $165.
A Guilford County commissioner is criticizing that county's Register of Deeds for reopening his office late Friday after a federal judge ruled that same-sex couples could legally marry in North Carolina. Jeff Thigpen, a Democrat, said his decision to reopen the office wasn't political.
Thigpen said Sunday that this was the biggest judicial decision to affect a register of deeds office and he was putting the needs of the people of Guilford County first.
According to the Greensboro News and Record, conservative Guilford County Commissioner Alan Branson wanted to know what the extra cost was to the taxpayer to reopen a closed county office. The office remained open for just over an hour and processed 24 marriage licenses for same-sex couples — more than they'd processed the entire day during normal hours.
Thigpen is also a former county commissioner.
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