Chuck Hughes, Salisbury, N.C.
♦ The distance from misleading to a lie is but a few inches.
By now you have all seen the MISLEADING political ad paid for by a Downtown Salisbury PAC. Some of you may have shook your head at its laughable allegations and attempts to tie the Board of Education (BOE) candidates, Reverend Dean Hunter, Crime Investigator Travis Allen and Technology Expert Phillip Hardin to the Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party. (I bet many people do not know what that honorable acronym stands for.)
The truth is that, like many of the Judges, County Commissioner candidates and other politicians who campaigned at one of the TEA Party meetings looking for votes wherever they could find them, none of the three BOE candidates ever attended a TEA Party meeting until they filed for election. Although they are not TEA party members, they are honorable men who respect all residents of Rowan County as voting citizens who are entitled to see, hear and to speak to all candidates in all races and discuss national and local issues that concern them before casting their vote.
The question is not if candidates are affiliated with a patriotic group such as the TEA Party or a liberal group such as Le Resistance. The question is why there is so much fear and resistance by Salisbury City to a potentially change on the BOE? I am afraid the answer to this question will be very disturbing when/if it is ever answered.
I urge you to vote for these three honorable men for Rowan/Salisbury Board of Education: Travis Allen, Dean Hunter, and Phillip Hardin.
