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This ‘clodhopper' learned a lot behind Pap-paw's plow

My Pap-paw Rockholt was a farmer....

Before there were legal rights, there were human rights

It is well known in Alamance County that Commissioner Tim Sutton is committed to cracking down on undocumented immigrants. He feels an obligation, in his view, to "uphold the law." ...

'Sir, if you deliberately mislead me would I trust you?'

"I'm Rick Gunn running for State Senate and I paid for this ad," states Rick Gunn in his ongoing TV ad. After an insertion by Sheriff Johnson, which nobody questions, Mr. Gunn states, "In the senate, Tony Foriest voted to cut funds for a program allowing...

Sen. Foriest a man of intelligence and honesty

I served on the Alamance County Arts Council board and during my tenure had occasion to work with state Senator Tony Foriest who was also on the board. I found him to be a person of great intelligence as well as being honest and forthright. He always...

N.C. loses another textile company; Republicans are failing us

North Carolina has lost another textile company, Spectrum Yarns Inc. Hanesbrands closed nine plants, Kernersville is losing a Steel Plant....

Sheriff Johnson has aligned himself with misleading campaign ad

I have seen the anti-Tony Foriest advertisement from Rick Gunn and Sheriff Terry Johnson on television on a number of occasions. In today's mail, I received a slick version of that ad addressed to me by the N.C. Republican State Executive Committee, authorized...

‘As an educated citizen who follows N.C. politics closely, I am not fooled'

Frequently when I go to my mailbox these days, I find a highly polished, very expensive piece of mail from the N.C. Republican Party authorized by Gunn for N.C. Senate. The purpose is always negative to smear and distort some aspect of Senator Tony Foriest's...

Why would candidate put name on mailing 'so clearly full of lies'?

Recently I received a mailing from the state Republican Party on behalf of Rick Gunn, candidate for N.C. Senate. The mailing attacked incumbent Senator Tony Foriest, claiming that "Tony Foriest fought for illegal aliens." After researching the two examples...

‘I want people representing me to be truthful, including my state senator'

Rick Gunn, a candidate running for state Senate, is airing a large number of TV ads. Gunn apparently has more advertising money than sense of truthfulness. In the ads, Gunn claims that his opponent, Sen. Tony Foriest, voted to cut funds for a program...

‘Foriest has yet to say he did not vote the way the ad claimed'

I have read for the past two weeks the Foriest campaign's letter writing in the Times-News, and I feel the record needs to be set straight....

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