Beck Interviews Mayor of 'Mayberry' After City Board Allegedly Blasts His Politics

The mayor of a small North Carolina town is hoping Glenn Beck will bring his new clothing line to her town, after Beck issued a call looking for an American community to be the home for his 1791 line.

However, some of the town's residents reportedly aren't sold on the idea, due to Beck's conservative views.

In a video that aired on GBTV to promote the project, Beck said: "I believe that somewhere out there there is a town searching for a second chance." The purpose of 1791 — named after the year the Bill of Rights was adopted — is to raise money for his new charity, Mercury One, and to invest in America by offering people jobs.

Mount Airy Mayor Deborah Cochran and other residents responded, emailing Beck hoping he would select their town — the birthplace of Andy Griffith and the model for the fictional town of Mayberry.

"Please consider our town for the Mercury One Project," Cochran wrote, according to the Mount Airy News. "We have several empty manufacturing plants."

Preliminary research suggests the clothing line could employ up to 1,000 people in the town that has been badly hit since clothing manufacturing jobs moved overseas, the Mount Airy News reported.

But Cochran has experienced pushback from some of the town's inhabitants due to Beck's politics. A source told the Mount Airy News that the city board of commissioners "declined to be publicly involved in supporting this" because of what was described as Beck's controversial, ultra-conservative leanings.

On the air Friday, Beck said he was perturbed by the board's gripe with his political views.

"I won’t do anything in a city where you are going to make everything about politics. Forget it," Beck said. "I'm really not interested in working around a bunch of people who might consider job creation a partisan event."

Cochran called in to the show a few moments later to state her case for making Mount Airy the home 1791, telling Beck her town relied heavily on the textile industry and recalled how her family has personally been affected by mill closings.

She said her town's citizens were hardworking people who just want a chance.

"These people here are the best on the planet," Cochran said. "My main concern is these people here who are out of work."

She also had a different take on the city board that you can hear in the entire conversation below: