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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 11:21 am |
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 11:45 am |
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From page 4 of this thread. haha its fun to quote yourself sometimes.
bama80 wrote: Donw, too bad you don't live on the Stokesdale/Summerfield line somewhere and are able to run for both towns. I know more about you than anyone running in Stokesdale and would write you in for all positions on the ballot. Good Luck. Roll Tide Roll!
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 12:49 pm |
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After regaining consciousness, FatPappy is planning to keep an open mind, even if that mind right now is in a deep blue funk, throbbing with pain and bewilderment.
Patti, I thought you did your usual excellent job of maintaining fairness and accuracy. We're going to need a reliable source to turn to more than ever in the coming years.
Crackah and Salty, don't wander off too far.
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 01:07 pm |
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To Scoutnc: Constructive criticism is always appreciated - I wish I would have heard from you before now, but glad that you finally stepped forward. I will ponder what you've said and promise to keep an open mind to your feedback.
Hope you won't make this your last posting -- it was not by design that this forum became a place for people with similar viewpoints to speak out; we wanted people from all perspectives to participate in it and the gates were, and are open to anyone. In fact, we personally invited Becky, Dwayne, and all the other town council candidates to participate just after we got the forum online. I hope in the future they, along with Mark Brown, will change their mind and participate so that we can have some productive dialogue. We'll need to hear from them as to what their thoughts are, and I hope they in turn will be receptive to listening to our viewpoints.
Thanks for reading our paper, and sharing your comments --
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StewartM
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 01:11 pm |
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Don
I agree with what you wrote. I want to thank you for the time you put in to help our town. You ran a respectable campaign. I enjoy talking to you on election day and hope to see you at all the council meeting. We can still let council and citizens know where we stand at the meetings......Thanks Mike
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 02:24 pm |
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If you do some rough math, there were total 1,621 folks that voted if you add the two mayoral votes together. According to the NWO in the election edition, there are 6,033 voters in Summerfield. That means only around 27% of the voters in Summerfield felt this issue was important enough to vote. Roughly 1 out of 4 people.
Dwayne & Becky gathered 1,426 out of 3,181 votes, or 44%.
0.44 x 0.27 = 12% of the voting population were enough to cause this outcome.
Clearly, an effective minority can effect an outcome.
To the other 73% who didn't bother to vote.....it will be interesting to see if the events of the next 4 years get your interest level up.
Patti - HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH !!!!!!!!!!!
If anybody believes figures lie and liars figure, I figure your comments represent about 88% of the population (less that other 12% above)
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 03:23 pm |
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Mike
Thanks for the kind words and I did enjoy conversing with you and your dad on election day--he is very entertaining- my kind of people. Humor is the essence of life. I will see you at the meetings. take care.
Thanks to all who made comments pertaining to my campaign. The campaign is not about winning it is about letting people know where you stand and who you REALLY are.
Don
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 04:36 pm |
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Scout... WELCOME to the boards! We embrace you. <hugs>
Please do not make this your last post. We consider you to be a courageous pioneer who is speaking out for the other side, (and we didn't even know there was another side until yesterday) and hopefully others who share thoughts such as yours will feel comfortable enough to jump on in and chat with us!
For those who are afraid.... Nobody (Other than the NW Observer staff, who can see your email address when you sign up- Right Patti?) knows who you are if you don't use your real name... If you don't believe me, just ask my friend bill! 
If we can entice others such as you Scout to join this forum, it will be much more effective and informative. That is the vision I think Patti had when she created it.
As for the NW Observer vs. CC Mailings....Unfortunately, It's like I told Patti last night.... it's the sensationalism that sells in this reality tv based world (with a little help sometimes from Glamour Shots) and nobody seems to care about the truth anymore.
I'll admit that Cracker Jax was a little nasty to bill before the election, but hey...It was campaign season! I am a good sport and have kissed and made up with bill and the crackah promises to be nicer to all (and especially bill) in the future.
OK... I'm going home to Stokesdale to see if they found that Vaughn fella.
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 04:56 pm |
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Mike, Don, Jane and Bill...
THANK YOU SO MUCH for stepping up to the plate and offering your time and service to our community. We the citizens of Summerfield (and 1 from Stokesdale) appreciate you more than you will ever know!
cj
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 05:25 pm |
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lucy wrote: "...The CC group does have a permit. PRSRT STD U.S.Postage Paid Permit #34. This permit appears to be paid for by the "CC, a Public Interest Corp" ... The trio sent a mailing using the same permit number, #34." It's been brought to my attention that Permit #34 is owned by Piedmont Direct Mailing Services, which was legitimately hired to handle the mailings for the Concerned Citizens. I cannot answer the questions posed in Lucy's additional comments below, but hope that a member of Concerned Citizens, or a member of the Concernced Citizens of Summerfield Political Action Committee will perhaps shed some light. - Patti Stokes Lucy continued, "The Strickland flyer said "Paid for by Committee of Becky Strickland." Peterson’s said "Paid for by the Committee to elect Bill Peterson. Crawford did n’t let us know who paid for his, perhaps "one of the fastest growing privately held businesses in Guilford County", maybe he made the copies at work. Is this legal? It is confusing.
My question is, are they letting us know who paid for the copies, when they say paid for by their committee? With the exception of Crawford, who is not disclosing that info? It looks like the CC PAC is paying for the mailings. If anyone knows more this would be interesting info. Please don’t tell us that the three are stealing money from an organization. That couldn’t be true after they have accused the current Council of doing so."
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 06:52 pm |
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This is part of a letter to the editor I have been writing. Patti... I'll send you the whole thing later. But I really felt like I needed to get this part to the blog (appropriate name) sooner than waiting for it to get in the paper if it did.
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The voters have chosen who they want to help lead the town. Now,
Summerfield must choose between two doors. Behind one is the same path we
have traveled for far to long in dark suspicion constantly tripping over
poisonous words and even hate. Behind the other is an opportunity for each
of us to help the town begin again by pledging to work together as mature
adults with a fresh commitment to allow alternative ideas, mature
discussions, and consensus building.
Mark Brown has told me on more than one occasion that he considers me the
farther of Summerfield. The truth is there were a lot of folk who worked
very hard to insure our child grew into a community we would be proud to
call home. It is up to all of us to work together to insure we are as proud
of Summerfield ten years from now as we were ten years ago. The council will
have to work hard to insure they follow the proper path. I sincerely
believe we all have what we consider the best for our community in our
hearts and minds. I hope the new council, the town folk, and the local
press will prove it by the way we treat each other and that all of us will
not just watch past attitudes continue as we standby idly by but will step
up to say to all we will not tolerate it, from any source, any longer.
bill peterson
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 08:24 pm |
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I agree bill. It is a new day and we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off and are ready to start anew.
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 08:43 pm |
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Been having computer problems today so just wanted to jump in and thank everybody who voted and expecially those who voted and had confidence in me to continue to do the job of council member.
Now having said that it is time to take stock of the town and the town needs and move on. there are lots of things that need to be done and lots of jobs for all of us if we choose to do them. i know for certain that the council can't do these jobs by themself and that they need us to offer them guidance so lets all joinl together to get our goals met.
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 08:44 pm |
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Hey Everyone ~ I have been gone all day wandering about in a confused state...hum, what happened? Oh well, the sun still came up this morning and the birds continued to chirp.
I do hope this new council will put away their anger, differences and personal agendas and work together with each other and with the public to help heal and grow our town into a great and thriving place for us now and for our future. I hope they strive to be forward thinking and do their best to listen to as many as possible with an open mind. (My two cents with a little prayer)
Bill, What's a farther?
Have a great evening!
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Posted: Nov 9th, 2005 09:20 pm |
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Bill Peterson, well chosen words in your letter above, look forward to reading the entire letter in the NWO.
I'm up in South Bend IN, it's nice to have an online forum to keep up with the chatter at home. Thanks Patti & Sandra, this forum is a winner !!
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