Todd Paris, Attorney and candidate for Salisbury City Council
♦ Step inside the thought process of Todd Paris, candidate for Salisbury City Council.
I like Kenny Hardin. He “tells it like it is” and anyone who “cusses out” Mayor Woodson and turns down campaign contributions conditioned upon him being nice to Maggie Blackwell and Karen Alexander–well, what’s not to like?
English is strange sometimes. Like, why is ‘disgruntled’ a word but ‘gruntled’ isn’t? “Are you feeling ‘gruntled today?” There are a lot of disgruntled present and former Salisbury Police officers around. I may ask the EXPD guys to work polls for me. I could staff all the polls all day, with those guys. There are more than enough of them. Oh, the firemen just started making contact. Not enough hours in the day!
Does Elizabeth Cook at the “Post” exercise any editorial control over reporting on the council race, and if she does, wouldn’t it be a conflict of interest since Maggie used to work for the “Post” and they are rumored to be good friends?
A JV football game was “called” a week ago because of gunfire in the neighborhood. What are the conference rules on that? Do we get a “do over” or is considered a forfeit for SHS. Memo to self – ask Coach Maddox about that.
Picture of me shaking hands with Jim Sides at the fair. We had booths beside each other. We did start “talking to each other” rather than “at each other.” That was nice.
Same thing for Board of Education member Susan Cox and Chuck Hughes. I remember sparring with Chuck and Susan’s husband on the Post’s comment section last year. Much nicer folks in person. I left that day thinking they both really care about the “kids.”
Despite the weather, I gave out about a thousand helium balloons with “Paris for City Council” on them. A sea of them, all week long- floating around the grounds. I had a “no tears policy.” Told the parents if they busted or blew away I would replace it. I replaced a lot. Balloons should be “all about” being happy.
I wore t-shirts most nights advertising Salisbury businesses. Dead Ed’s and New Sarum had the most attention.
Why don’t Chief and Council seem to care about eleven unsolved murders? I hope it isn’t because they were all people of color, or that they happened in “challenged” neighborhoods. I wonder if these had happened in “good neighborhoods,” Chief Collins wouldn’t already be fulltime at housing instead of part-time.
What is it about council incumbent apologists that makes them overlook all the problems with the city? Friends on City payroll or just blind loyalty to “the team?”
Salisbury has always been run by “the right kind of people” for “the right kind of people.” Maybe that should change. In a fair world, maybe Food Lion stock-boy and Romo’s cook Stephen Arthur could win. Or Jeff Watkins, who also works two jobs at the cigar shop and the funeral home, could prevail? That’s not to say there aren’t other good challengers, but these hard working guys need a “hug.” I would be proud to serve with either.
Where’re Todd’s signs? I tried every venue in the city to have them printed (yes, printed) locally. Everyone I talked to was just going to order them off the internet. Talking to a guy Sunday that says he can do this. At least they will be printed in Rowan County and ALL the money stays local.
