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In all honesty, I’d thought that this election would be something I would have already put behind me. It was a great three months from the time I filed to run until the night the votes came in. I still haven’t felt a moment’s regret in not winning a seat: 4,648 are just too many votes to be anything but ecstatic about.

But yet here I am: still compelled to be writing, this time about things that never should have happened because of this election. Or at least in a sane world would have met with some accountability already.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons why God led me to run: to chronicle not just what happens in the life of a political candidate, but to observe some of the things that are wrong in our system… like when an elected official is caught breaking the law and when a ...

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There is now a petition being circulated throughout Rockingham County (note: file is in Acrobat format) calling for the removal of Ron Price from the school board.

And Penny Owens, one of the unsuccessful candidates for school board, has found what is apparently the North Carolina statute calling for removal of a school board member on grounds of immoral conduct:

§ 115C‑39. Removal of board members; suspension of duties by State Board. (a) In case the State Board of Education has sufficient evidence that any member of a local board of education is not capable of discharging, or is not discharging, the duties of his office as required by law, or is guilty of immoral or disreputable conduct, the State Board of Education shall notify the chairman of such board of education, unless such chairman is the offending member, in which case all other members of such board shall be

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The News & Record today runs an article about the Ron Price situation. It’s written by Gerald Witt. And Witt gets something wrong in his write-up here: I don’t believe this was intentional, but he conveys the sense that a lot of us who are pursuing this thing with Price are doing it because we “lost” the election.

I don’t believe any of us “lost” in last week’s election, and I wrote about this at much further length a few weeks before election day. A democratic republic is not supposed to be run as if it’s a sporting event. And the sooner we move past this mentality that it’s this “us versus them/winner takes it all baby” thing, the better off we’re all going to be.

Here’s part of the e-mail I sent Witt about this…

Dear Gerald,
I just read your article about the Ron Price situation. Just a

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Breaking now on Reidsville Review/Eden Daily News/other Media General newspapers:

Price summoned over signs

Jennifer Williams
Staff Writer
Friday, November 17, 2006

A criminal summons has been issued for school board member-elect Ron Price. Price is accused of injuring an advertisement, a misdemeanor.

Body: A criminal summons has been issued for school board member-elect Ron Price. Price is accused of injuring an advertisement, a misdemeanor. The summons guarantees that Price will be present for his 9 a.m. Nov. 30 court date.

On Monday, Nov. 7 Price was seen taking Brad Miller campaign signs along N.C. 14. Officers found seven road signs in Price’s trunk. Both Miller’s campaign and the Democratic headquarters declined to press charges against Price.

Debra Moore filed the complaint and Vernon Gammon is listed as a witness. Debra Moore is the wife of Richard Moore, narrowly failed school board candidate. It was reported in the Nov.

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Throughout the day I’ve been trying to reach Ed Hunt, Chief of Police for the City of Reidsville. About thirty minutes ago Chief Hunt returned my call: I was really impressed that even at this late hour he got back in touch with me.

He and I made some pleasant conversation and then I brought to his attention the subject that I’ve spent much of this past day investigating. Since sometime yesterday the rumors have been flying that in addition to the seven Brad Miller campaign signs that school board candidate Ron Price had stolen, that several other signs belonging to other campaigns were also found in the trunk of his car on the night of November 6th (the evening before last week’s general election). To say that this place has been rife with speculation about what exactly was in Ron Price’s car trunk would be a severe understatement....

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RELEVANT BACKGROUND: On the evening of Monday, November 6th 2006, Rockingham County Board of Education at-large candidate Ron Price turned himself into the Reidsville Police Department and admitted having illegally taken campaign signs belonging to incumbent U.S. House candidate Brad Miller. The police found several Miller signs in the trunk of Price’s car (OFFICIAL REPORT: Page #1, Page #2). Price claimed that he had seen several signs that had been knocked down that belonged to Vernon Robinson, the Republican challenger for Miller’s seat and the candidate that Price had been campaigning for. Price then said that he took down several Miller signs because they were illegally placed along the road and was going to take them to the DOT. Curiously, Price replaced the Miller signs he had taken down with Robinson signs… in the same “illegal” locations.

And then the following night, Ron Price came in fifth place ...

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