Thank You
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I wanted to thank all those who supported me in
this election and all the other elections and activities I've
gotten into. It has been my pleasure to serve the folks of
Loudon County over the years in various capacities.
The last four years serving on the school board
have been both challenging and rewarding. This board made some
great strides for the school system over all. We accomplished
what had been nearly impossible for past boards when we adopted
and implemented a long overdue building program.
We reduced the operating budget and were making
real headway in reducing the growing overhead expenses. We hired
Mr. Jason Vance as the director of schools and for the first
time in many, many years we have a director who's first interest
is the school system and not riding the bench waiting for
retirement.
I say again, thank you for allowing me the
opportunity to serve.
Warning Warning Warning Just so not to anger anyone, the rest of this article may very well be offensive to supporters of my opponent in the past election. Please stop reading if you feel you will be offended by frank, honest discussion. STOP Now if I could just stop here
with all the fluff stuff folks might say, well that's nice. But
if I stopped here without giving a little final commentary, I
just wouldn't be me and I must be me.
I've already been hearing that I'm angry and
bitter over losing the election. Let me assure you, I'm not
angry nor bitter about the election. I've lost elections before.
I will admit, this loss was a little different than others in
that in other elections my opponents at least had some
qualifications for the office they were running for. In this
case, it's kind of like finding out your wife left you for a
homeless man.
The fact is, if the boy had come to me like a man
in the beginning and told me how bad he wanted to be on the
school board, I likely would have stepped aside and not even
sought re-election. Instead, he insisted to me that if I was
going to run, I had his support. Obviously, that was a lie.
Remember this?
Along that same line, I keep getting little snide
remarks thrown at me from them that they ran a "clean" campaign.
I think the inference is suppose to be that somehow I ran a
dirty campaign. I guess the fact that I highlighted Mr. Buckles
lack of any experience in anything is somehow suppose to mean
that was dirty politics. But it's a little hard to forget their
clean campaign was kicked off with a lie and a stab in the back.
I have no idea how Jeremy will fair on the school
board. This is not the high school senior class prom. On his
election campaign finance report he lists his occupation as a
"self employed meteorologist." Some have had a little fun trying
to figure out exactly what a self employed meteorologist does.
Selling door to door weather reports? I don't know. I'm not sure
what background that gives him to serve on the board but he's
there and for the sake of the schools I hope he can figure out
what he's doing and not just be a lap dog to his mentors.
In his news paper statement, he said it was
apparent the voters were looking to him for new leadership. That
may come as a surprise to some of the other board members. I'm
afraid he's sold his political soul to those with self interest
in the outcome of the election and they're going to be expecting
their paybacks. Supporting votes, pay raises, jobs. It's all
coming.
I know Jeremy has high political ambitions and
that's a fine thing. But no matter where he goes in his
political life, he will always have to remember he kicked off
his political career with a lie to a friend. |
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