RFP Staff
♦ After being upset by Mike Caskey and Craig Pierce in his 2012 primary bid and blowing $12,500 in the process, Gene Miller is given zero chance by Rowan County political observers in his unaffiliated bid to be a county commissioner. Gene is required to get 4,000 legitimate signatures from registered voters before June 27th in order to qualify. If he pulls off this monumental feat of gaining signatures, Gene, a former Rowan-Salisbury School’s assistant superintendent, still has to acquire enough votes in November which is seen as extremely unlikely.
Jonathan Morris, a Rowan County Sheep Baron and county political pundit laughed raucously when asked if Gene Miller had a ghost of chance in November. “Boy’s dragging a lot of cans. Nobody’s ever run for county commissioner as unaffiliated. Gene is still claiming he’s a conservative. (Laughter grew piercing now). Love to see all the money the schools blew during his spree as assistant superintendent. Did he signoff on all that money the school system forked over for IPADs they never used and the big trip to Houston to buy a technology award for Grissom? How about all those books they tossed out at the county recycling center? For sure they’ll link him with a bad performing school system. A heck of a lot of folks in the county are angry about him pimping the Taj Mahal on South Main. He never got it done. Promised all the downtown marks they’d score $5,000 bucks a year if the Central Office got built on the money pit. Never got it across the line. Salisbury is no longer a power broker. It’s the poverty capital of North Carolina run into the ground by vultures. Maybe it’s about time roles were reversed and the county started sucking blood out of Salisbury. If we could find a vein. Miller’s little scheme to bypass the primary won’t go over well with county voters. Hope he doesn’t turn into another Ralphie Walton. An angry old man in a soiled jump suit–Rowan County’s perennial non contender.” (Shrill laughter).
