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May 15, 2006

BREAKING


Dunston Censors Stires
Stires: 'I'm at a loss.'

Commentary by John Edwards


Chuck Stires
www.StiresforSenate.com

vs.

 
File Photo
Doug Berger

State Senator Doug Berger called those who opposed the $45-million bond tax "extremists" at an April 24 school bond meeting in Louisburg. (It's amusing that Berger, whose membership includes the Democratic Socialists of America and the Progressive Caucus, is calling others extremists.)
 

So, which is it, Commissioner Sid Dunston? At the May 8 commissioners meeting, Chuck Stires, Republican candidate for state Senate District 7, said during the public comments segment that he would present suggestions in the near future for funding school renovation and construction since the $45-million bond tax was defeated May 2. (Earlier this year Stires, on behalf of the Franklin GOP, asked the commissioners and school board to delay the bond on the ballot until November.)

At the May 15 board of commissioners meeting, Stires was to speak during public comments about his suggestions for the future of Franklin County schools. But Dunston didn't allow Stires to speak and accused him of "politics."

"I'm at a loss," Stires told the Franklin GOP later in the meeting.

So, at one meeting Dunston allows Stires to speak, but at another meeting he's muted.

Just like Democrat state Sen. Doug Berger, who has flip-flopped on tobacco taxes, Dunston flip-flops on who can and cannot speak during public comments.

So, dear readers, you will be the first ones to see the document that Stires was to read portions of to the commissioners on May 15th:


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By the way, on April 24, at a school bond meeting, it was Berger who called those who opposed the $45-million bond tax "extremists."

Now that the shoe's on the other foot, Dunston tries to stifle Stires' comments.

But Dunston must have forgotten about 2003 as shown in this photo:

That's Dunston, over a year before he was elected commissioner, pleading to the commissioners to save former assistant county manager Angela Harris' job. In the background, halfway standing, is Berger before he was elected to the senate. To the right is none other than "Boss Hogg" Ralph Knott, the Democrat kingpin.

The commissioners allowed Dunston, Berger, and Democrat chairman Bobbie Richardson to ask that Harris' job be saved. In fact, Richardson blasted Democrat commissioners Raymond Stone and John Ball for eliminating Harris' job. On top of that, Republican Harry Foy, who was elected chairman by Stone and Ball, also allowed Richardson to blast him. (By the way, now that Dunston is the chairman, why hasn't he and other Democrat commissioners tried to reinstate Harris' job? Was she just their pawn?)

When someone disagrees with Dunston he calls them "grandstanding," which he accused Republican commissioners Harry Foy and Don Lancaster, when they asked that the restitution that former tax collector Donnie Rudd paid back to the county be refunded to the taxpayers who were swindled.

Now, when it gets too hot in the kitchen for Dunston and his buddy Berger, he doesn't allow public comment unless it's favorable for the Democrats and their leader, Boss Hogg Ralph Knott.

This Web site has been visited over 21,500 times since August 2004. Just the first 11 days of May, there have been over 1,000 visits. This story will be read by hundreds much to the chagrin of Dunston, Berger, Knott, etc.

And unlike the Democrats, the Republican Party is for honest and open government. Maybe Rev. Dunston ought to drop by one of our Republican meetings and find out that we all don't agree on all the issues all the time. We discuss them openly and everybody knows where we stand. We don't have muppet strings contolled by Boss Hogg Ralph Knott which apparently are dictating what some Democrat leaders can and cannot do.

Dunston may be able to stop public comments from those who have different opinions, but we're happy to show Republican Chuck Stires' comments uncensored by Dunston.

If you would like to learn more about Chuck Stires please go to his Web site and contact him:

www.StiresforSenate.com.

Senate District 7 includes Franklin, Granville, Vance and Warren counties. The district was created in 2004 and Berger was first elected that year.

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