[Durham INC] Literacy, not 751, is the crucial issue facing County Commissioners.

[Richard Ford]

This article from tomorrow's Durham News illustrates the important issue - literacy - that should be driving the Commissioner's race, not an obsession with the development of a troublesome parcel. 

Have any of the Commissioner candidates or the PAC's laser-focused on literacy as our number one issue?  Are we wiling to let social issues or opposition to a particular development obscure what really needs to be done in Durham, while thousands cannot read sufficiently??.

44% of Durham school kids failed their reading tests  Will the County Commissioners pass theirs??

Child literacy should be Durham’s Job 1!!

http://www.thedurhamnews.com/2012/06/09/212243/child-literacy-should-be-durhams.html

Dick
On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Richard Ford wrote:

> 751 is a big issue but using it as a litmus test may not produce the best Commissioners who after all will make hundreds of decisions over the next four years. 
> 
> Character, ability to move an agenda, integrity etc can mean more than a particular stand on a single issue.
> 
> Dick
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:33 PM, TheOcean1 at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Only scanned that article, but I thought it said he was holding off being "for or against", until he has endorsements.
>>  
>> Seemed backwards to me, since I thought endorsements were based on a candidate's positions on the issues at hand.
>>  
>> In essence he's saying, "Endorse me and I'll vote which ever way your group wishes!"
>>  
>> To heck with what's best for Durham County, he needs some endorsements. That's a great way to make decisions about Durham's future, or more accurately, place the decisions in the hands of those who've endorse him.
>> 
>> Bill Anderson
>>  
>> In a message dated 6/9/2012 7:25:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kjj1bg at yahoo.com writes:
>> Ridiculous. In today's paper NHL says he's "neutral" on 751 and trying to "do his homework" and "make an informed decision." That homework--on the most divisive issue on the ballot--should have been done before he got into the race. It doesn't speak well to his political thought processes to say that now. 
>> 
>> Just MHO. 
>> Kelly
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone. Take typos and autocorrect errors lightly please. 
>> 
>> On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Carl Kenney <revcwkii at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Omar Beasley has received the 7,500 signatures needed to be placed on the ballot to run for the Board of County Commissioners.  Read what the Rev-elution has to say regarding how Beasley being placed on the ballot will shake up the endorsement process.
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>>> http://rev-elution.blogspot.com/2012/06/omar-beasley-gets-7500-signatures-to.html
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