This Is Who the Charlotte Obfuscator Endorses and Doesn’t Endorse
The following is a copy of an email to the Editor of the Charlotte Observer sent 29 October 2010
Dear Editor;
If the Charlotte Observer is to have any credibility at all and not merely look like a
propaganda arm for one political party, it needs to do its homework before endorsing candidates for office. Simply throwing your support behind a couple of “safe”, token Republicans just does not cut it. Just look at who you did NOT endorse for County Commission.
Did you actually do your research and look into the character and positions of these
candidates: Corey Thompson (At-Large), LeeAnn Patton (District 2) or Barbara Eveland (District 3). Just because they have not yet held office does not mean they should be dismissed. Corey, for example, is very knowledged, motivated, and WILL reduce waste and taxes for us. Yes, LeeAnn and Barbara don’t know “everything” there is to know about running the county, but it is clear from simply talking to both that they WILL pick up a full working knowledge in short order and do a damn fine job of getting this county government’s economic freefall back in the right direction again.
Look at who in the heck you DID endorse for Commissioners! Vilma Leake, for example, after all this time, did not understand the basic structure of the city and county’s fire departments from what I can gather. At one of the Commission’s meetings, she clearly did not or could not understand why the county’s volunteer fire department needed to be funded at all, since they were “volunteer” firemen. And it was evident that she failed to grasp that it cost to run “volunteer” departments even after fellow members tried repeatedly to explain it to her. And, presumably referring to what is spelled out in our Declaration of Independence, George Dunlap repeatedly referred to his “…ineligible rights….” [sic] as a citizen. I am not even sure if Mr. Dunlap can cite where the term came from, but the fact is that this man you are recommending for a position to run this county evidently cannot even get something as simple as this straight.
And both of these two, when members of the CharMeck school board, were instrumental in getting schools built in the city where they were really not needed, and in NOT getting schools built in the suburbs where the schools were already overcrowded and where they were needed. Responsibility for the current mess that ostensibly requires school closings in the city largely falls squarely the the laps of the Dunlaps and the Leakes. You are endorsing them??
Just what does the Observer seem to have against actually reducing reckless spending,government waste, and the already onerous tax burden that is pushing businesses and people out of our county and smothering its economy?
Mel Morganstein
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