Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 12:54:56 -0400
From: virginia penley
Subject: Questions for Brian Bock and Heather Johnson
None of us are perfect.
The age of the Chatham Coalition is long over and I appreciated the volunteer work that these community volunteers did to help Chatham County. Maybe their methods did not gibe with everyone, but I would take the input from hard working volunteers in our community everyday of the week and twice on Sunday’s over astro-turf groups like Americans for Prosperity and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.
Mark is the precinct chair for Mann’s Chapel and I am its vice-chair for the Democratic Party. Like our friends in the Republican Party this is volunteer work and a labor of love. I respect Mark and my opponents who are working hard on behalf of their candidates.
As for Jeff, he has worked for over 42 years in Chatham County and his body of work speaks for itself. He is not an officer in the Democratic party, the currents officers in Pittsboro are Bev Bland, Peter Harkens, and Pam Cash-Roper, and the PAC he started last spring is defunct.
Interestingly, we have not heard if and when Ms. Johnson’s group, CCV, became disassociated with Americans for Prosperity, who have violated state election laws, nor do we know how Commissioner Bock’s campaign has avoided issues of coordination with the PAC Chatham First, since his campaign committee shares the same treasurer with the PAC and email inquiries to the Board of Election about the Chatham First PAC resulted in an email implying that the contacts for the PAC were the campaigns of Commissioners Bock/Stewart and Petty.
Respectfully, before we get more fear mongering posts from Ms. Johnson it would be reasonable for the community to know the status of Americans for Prosperity in Chatham County, how they relate to the CCGOP and CCV and who is the responsible party for the Chatham First PAC and its failure to properly disclose its role in paying for collateral materials, etc.