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I’m not going to even begin to attempt to recap everything that’s taken place over almost two years now regarding Ron Price, the Rockingham County Board of Education member who stole all those campaign signs on the night before the 2006 election. Hit the above link if you want to know what’s been going on.

I will say though, however belatedly, that very many people shared with me how ridiculous and even foolish it was when Price endorsed EVERY incumbent in this year’s Board of Education election, including those who are going to be running against each other in the same district race.

Anyway, back to the issue at hand, which a lot of folks have been e-mailing me about…

This past Friday, Price used his blog to launch a scathing attack on Richard Moore, local bookstore owner and candidate for Rockingham County Board of Commissioners, who ...

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So North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue has sworn to stop running negative ads against fellow Democrat primary opponent Richard Moore.

Perdue should have never run any negative ads, period.

Notice how she’s only promising to do this for the primary. Perdue is saying nothing about abstaining from negative campaigning during the lead-up to the November general election. If she had done that, and stuck with it throughout the campaign season, I might be tempted to consider her.

But as it is, I’m still sticking with the policy that I announced last week: any candidate who runs even a single negative campaign commercial or pulls some other “dirty trick” that is easily attributable to his or her campaign, will not get my vote. Because doing such a thing proves beyond all doubt that said candidate does not sincerely want to serve the people. It means that they ...

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The more I think about how disgraced school board member/admitted sign stealer Ron Price’s lawsuit against the Moores ended (click here for more info, including links to the sworn depositions that the Moores, Price, and Yours Truly gave), the more I’m feeling honked-off to no end about it.

The man is certainly living up to his county-wide nickname of “Ron the Con” (one that I have heard bandied about everywhere from church to the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Eden). Ladies and gentlemen, I posit that the whole sordid drama of this past year has been a massive charade perpetrated by Price and his attorney Douglas Hux. Because this lawsuit had nothing to do with seeking damages for legitimate libel. But it did have everything to do with an elected official using the law to intimidate and silence those who disagree with him.

Does anyone believe that Ron Price would ...

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See that pic of Ron Price? That’s when he was sworn in on the Rockingham County Board of Education a little over a year ago. Nobody from his family wanted to come and hold the Bible for him, so school board attorney Jill Wilson had to fill in. This pic was taken by Richard Moore, and we’ll get back to it in just a little bit…

A few days ago Ron Price dropped his lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore. There’s a story about it in The Reidsville Review, but based on what I’ve heard from a number of sources, the Review story is… shall we put it… “wildly inaccurate”. There was no settlement at all, and certainly no conditions imposed. Ron Price cried “Uncle!” on his own.

Yet in spite of giving up, Price is delusional enough to claim a victory out of this…

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Ron Price (full name Ronald Filer Price), disgraced at-large member of the Rockingham County Board of Education and confessed campaign sign thief, couldn’t go the distance with his lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore, so he’s thrown in the towel.

Price and his attorney Douglas Hux dropped the lawsuit yesterday. You can click on the graphic on the right to see the dismissal. It was done “with prejudice” and voluntarily… meaning that Price can’t bring this same lawsuit up again.

There was no settlement. Price simply gave up.


(much bigger version of “Sir Ronald” graphic here)

Ron Price was suing the Moores for trying to hold Price accountable for his stealing campaign signs on the night before the 2006 general election. Among other things Price describes in his lawsuit how Richard Moore wore a t-shirt that said “If this shirt is missing look in Ron Price’s trunk” ...

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I wouldn’t mind saying out loud, even though I’ve now given on-the-record testimony during deposition, that Ron Price’s lawsuit against Richard and Debbie Moore is a steaming pile of horse manure. Except that doing so would be a dire insult to horses everywhere.

(Here is my own report about being deposed and here is Richard’s account, which includes not only my own time on the “witness stand” but his own and that of Debbie and Ron Price… who I especially heard did not do so well.)

In my admittedly non-legally trained estimation, this case is going to be laughed out of court. But that won’t be before Price and his attorney Doug Hux will have (a) wasted a lot of our valuable time and money, (b) wasted a lot of the public’s valuable time and money, and (c) continued to set a horrible example to this county’s young ...

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Here’s Richard Moore’s write-up about what happened during deposition in the Ron Price lawsuit against Richard and his wife Debbie. There are two big reasons why I’m posting it here too: one, because Richard gives his perspective on what happened when Doug Hux interrogated me. And two, because Richard Moore, although he’s not the lousy blogger like Ron Price is, is a man who just can’t leave stuff consistent on his Political Soup website. Richard, haven’t you heard of archiving stuff?! Anyhoo here it is for permanent record (and with proper citation, which I always do anyway)…

THE INCOMPLETE BUT ENTIRELY FACTUAL
ACCOUNT OF THE RON PRICE LAWSUIT DEPOSITIONS

D-DAY NOVEMBER 15, 2007. It wasn’t exactly the allies storming the beach at Normandy, but it was a bloody, painful assault on one witness. I am talking about Deposition Day in the Ron Price defamation lawsuit against my wife ...

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Since I’ve commented on what happened at the deposition yesterday, I might as well throw in my two cents on something else regarding disgraced Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price. It has to do with something that he wrote on his own blog last week…

“It should be acknowledged that public education is not a right but a privilege given to the youth of today to secure the future. Over 75% of the public paying for public education do not have students in the public schools but all pay for public education to provide a means of securing the blessings of liberty and prosperity for ourselves and our posterity.”

So now Ron Price, school board member, is telling us that our children have no right to public education.

Funny that he didn’t mind telling us that during last year’s school board race.

Ron Price has obviously ...

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So yesterday afternoon – and a half-hour earlier than I had earlier been summoned to appear – I appeared for deposition in the lawsuit that Ron Price has filed against Richard and Debbie Moore.

What can I say about it? I’ll hold off on too much about it right now but I will say this: the more I think about it, the less sense it makes.

It was mostly about Price’s attorney Doug Hux showing me a photo from last year’s Reidsville Christmas Parade (?!?!?). Hux asked me if I recognized it and I was like “Uhhh well DUH ‘cuz THOSE ARE MY PICTURES that WGSR is using in their commercial for this year’s Reidsville Christmas parade so OF COURSE I was right there!” Those weren’t my exact words but you get the idea. Anyhoo, Hux showed me a photo that’s very much like this one that I ...

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