dhyatt
08-22-2005, 08:50 AM
email received today...
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Cary Candidate Litters Veteran’s Park
I don’t know if Michael G. Curran, a Cary resident and Council candidate, is a Veteran or not?
I know I am. And having served in both Korea and Vietnam, this thoughtless posting by him or persons acting for him, especially angered me during my Sunday drive around Cary.
The above-pictured sign is not posted in “public” right-of-ways, as are most illegal signs. It’s on someone’s private or public property.
And it didn’t take long to figure out whose property it was...
http://carypolitics.org/images/curran_sign_a.jpg
The pictured eleven-plus acres were previously owned by Dr. and Mrs. Jim Goodnight and were offered by them to the Veterans Freedom Project in 2002. It is now Veterans Freedom Park.
A call Sunday to the candidates “listed” phone number netted the usual candidate response; I know not… what my “team” does with my campaign signs.
In politics, this is referred to as “plausible deniability” and candidates use it to escape responsibility for their actions. It’s probably why none of the candidates “teams” were invited to the “Campaign Sign” meeting, Cary recently held.
I was told the purpose of that “meeting” was to explain in detail Cary’s “Sign Ordinances” to the local candidates.
Soon you can see for yourself what little good that meeting accomplished. Because, during that meeting, at least two rules, within the town sign ordinances, should have been stressed:
1. “Signs shall be located on private property with the permission of the owner”.
2. “Signs shall not be located in the right-of-way, on any other public property or on any utility pole or tree except within proximity of polling places on Election Day”.
(These were printed in the July 29, 2004 edition of The Cary News)
Of the twelve “CURRAN” postings, I observed this weekend, five were questionable and the other seven were in clear violation of town ordinances.
I don’t know if Candidate Curran was in attendance at the meeting. In fact, I don’t know who attended other than planning and zoning personnel.
Therefore, I request of the Town of Cary a list of everyone in attendance that day and specifically the names of anyone from the press who attended? Additionally, I want to know if Candidate Curran got permission from any of the private property owners his “team” chose to post along Harrison, Cary Parkway and Evans at Cary Parkway?
An e-mail response from the Town will suffice.
George Lee Swearingen
www.capsorow.org
403 Glasgow Road
Cary, NC 27511
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Cary Candidate Litters Veteran’s Park
I don’t know if Michael G. Curran, a Cary resident and Council candidate, is a Veteran or not?
I know I am. And having served in both Korea and Vietnam, this thoughtless posting by him or persons acting for him, especially angered me during my Sunday drive around Cary.
The above-pictured sign is not posted in “public” right-of-ways, as are most illegal signs. It’s on someone’s private or public property.
And it didn’t take long to figure out whose property it was...
http://carypolitics.org/images/curran_sign_a.jpg
The pictured eleven-plus acres were previously owned by Dr. and Mrs. Jim Goodnight and were offered by them to the Veterans Freedom Project in 2002. It is now Veterans Freedom Park.
A call Sunday to the candidates “listed” phone number netted the usual candidate response; I know not… what my “team” does with my campaign signs.
In politics, this is referred to as “plausible deniability” and candidates use it to escape responsibility for their actions. It’s probably why none of the candidates “teams” were invited to the “Campaign Sign” meeting, Cary recently held.
I was told the purpose of that “meeting” was to explain in detail Cary’s “Sign Ordinances” to the local candidates.
Soon you can see for yourself what little good that meeting accomplished. Because, during that meeting, at least two rules, within the town sign ordinances, should have been stressed:
1. “Signs shall be located on private property with the permission of the owner”.
2. “Signs shall not be located in the right-of-way, on any other public property or on any utility pole or tree except within proximity of polling places on Election Day”.
(These were printed in the July 29, 2004 edition of The Cary News)
Of the twelve “CURRAN” postings, I observed this weekend, five were questionable and the other seven were in clear violation of town ordinances.
I don’t know if Candidate Curran was in attendance at the meeting. In fact, I don’t know who attended other than planning and zoning personnel.
Therefore, I request of the Town of Cary a list of everyone in attendance that day and specifically the names of anyone from the press who attended? Additionally, I want to know if Candidate Curran got permission from any of the private property owners his “team” chose to post along Harrison, Cary Parkway and Evans at Cary Parkway?
An e-mail response from the Town will suffice.
George Lee Swearingen
www.capsorow.org
403 Glasgow Road
Cary, NC 27511