Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:10:48 -0400
From: virginia penley
Subject: Election in Chatham County
Early voting is on the way and folks are flocking to the polls. I wish everyone luck, but I am unabashedly for the Blue Team and the Blue Ballot.
On a personal level, I and many others I know have no personal issue with any of the candidates and I wish them great success in their personal endeavors. And I have even visited Amanti’s Pizza and spent my hard earned dollars buying a meal from Commissioner Bock’s establishment in Cary. I hope he makes plenty of dough kneading the dough.
My posts are written to reflect policy differences and to shed a light on the marketing of the Red Team to provide more clarity.
I write this because the marketing from the Chatham County GOP candidates for County Commissioner and their affiliated PAC, Chatham First, is a bit murky and fails to disclose party affiliation and/or policy affiliation with the platform of the State and local Chatham County GOP.
In addition, the fine description of Commissioner Bock’s biography on the chatlist fails to disclose that he is from not just any town in Indiana, but in fact Martinsville. Why not just tell the good people of Chatham County from whence you come? For example I was born in Danville, VA and I grew up in Howland Corners, Ohio, which is a township near Warren, Ohio.
Finally, the marketing piece from Chatham First could lead one to conclude that these candidates were either moderate Democrats or at worst Eisenhower Republicans, when their platform, campaign, and actions over the past four years do not reconcile with any of this myth making.
Not convinced?
Moderates would not eliminate access to books. They would not fail to support transit and regional planning and they certainly would never proudly eliminate the human relations director, which led to the dissolution of the advisory committee in Chatham County. They might get endorsed by the Independent Weekly and the Sierra Club, which this group certainly was not.
Folks, the choice is clear, warts and all: it is is the Blue Team vs. the Red Team for the heart and soul of Chatham County.