this weeks paper

[Don]

Brent has a LTE in response to Hyatts which was in response to Brents..... :wink:

And Attention JohnB - Read the Police Blotter - Your "CHEVINATOR" truck is causing more problems!

[johnb]

Oh good! Having the same little SOB implicated in multiple crimes of this type makes it a little easier case to prove. It's a pattern.

I'll have to pick it up today on my way out and give Officer Suddueth a call.

[Laurie]

Brent is also quoted in the article about the coffee shop proposed for the Lowe's out parcel.

[johnb]

Hey Don,

Am I too assume the Cary News did not publish my letter to the editor then? Gee, I wonder why that would be the case....;)

John

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:00:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "john barbara"
Subject: Letter to the Editor
To: carynews@nando.com

It is refreshing at times to see a political party say what they mean. There is one locally not above spewing hate to demonize those that disagree with them. That is the Wake County Democratic Party. The party’s website provides the proof and the offender is the chairman of the WCDP. He refers to Evangelicals as fascists, “Republican Ayatollahs”, and hints that they seek to physically exterminate homosexuals.

As someone who has lived in an Islamic nation and has studied Islamic history and theology I found this comparison to Shiite clerics to be shocking and gut wrenchingly vicious.

Mr. Karlsson has a collection of posts at http://www.wakedems.org . The “Republican Ayatollahs” and “Christian Fascists” posts are merely two of the more obscene. I'm not sure how demonizing 1/3 of the electorate is a winning electoral strategy, but far be it from me to dictate campaign tactics to the WCDP.

I am left wondering how the voters of Wake County, who happen to be Evangelical Christians, should approach elected Democratic Party officials. I would ask the following:

Is this rhetoric from your party chairman something the elected Democrats feel comfortable taking before the voters, i.e., will we see it on their campaign literature?

Do they share his hatred and/or contempt for Evangelical Christians?

These hateful remarks were posted on the WCDP’s official web page on May 1st. Why have NO elected Democrats said anything about this?

How quickly will those pages be removed?

John Barbara
Cary, NC

[Rono]

..well John, my word count says 246 words. guess that was not what kept you out. Hum...what else could it be? You sent it to the general e-mail box...got lost in the spam? Don't make it through the junk filters?

Send it directly to Brenda or Keith again and at least ask if they got it before assumptions.

Rono

[johnb]

Ron,

Got the email addresses?

venturecrew212@yahoo.com

[Wuptdo]

JohnB, resubmit your LTE. Hopefully, Arnold has already checked this out and will run a story as well. (For some reason, Brent's avatar just came to mind). :-D

Wuptdo B-)