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Ron Price, disgraced member of the Rockingham County Board of Education (“I don’t have anyone to hold my Bible for me” he lamented meekly when he was sworn-in this past December), has filed a lawsuit against fellow former school board candidate Richard Moore and Moore’s wife Debbie in retaliation for the Moores trying to hold Price accountable for his stealing campaign signs on the night before last November’s election.

Here’s the story that’s being reported in today’s Reidsville Review.

In filing this suit, Ron Price is grievously breaking the law – and subsequently is violating the oath he took when he was sworn-in to serve on the Board of Education – by attempting to “punish” others for practicing their rights under the Constitution.

And good money sez that The Knight Shift blog and Yours Truly will be getting hit soon too, as the supposedly “Christian” Price lashes out ...

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This is why some things are worth fighting…

According to a story from Media General, Rockingham County schools exceed the state average when it comes to school violence. For the school year 2005-06 there were “64 reports of possession of a controlled substance, 43 reports of possession of a weapon, 20 reports of possession of alcoholic beverages, 13 reports of assault on personnel, three reports of assault resulting in serious injury, three reports of bomb threats, and one report each of possession of a firearm, sexual offense and assault involving use of a weapon.”

Meanwhile, the News & Record is reporting that given a typical group of 10 students from Rockingham County, “half have had sex, three have smoked pot and, within the previous two weeks, two have gotten drunk. At least three have beaten another person, two have carried a weapon for protection, two smoked cigarettes, one has ...

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The latest news from the ongoing scandal of elected school board candidate/admitted misdemeanor larceny offender Ron Price.

At 9 a.m. this morning Price showed up for his first court appearance in district court in Wentworth, stemming from his stealing the seven campaign signs from incumbent U.S. House candidate Brad Milller on the night before the election a few weeks ago. Based on reports I’ve received, not a whole lot happened. Price just had his attorney recognized by the court. He’s next due to appear in court on January 25th: presumably then he’ll have to answer to the charges.

So this doesn’t change the fact that Price is probably going to be sworn in on December 11th… but without this thing having a quick resolution, it’s going to be hanging around his neck like the proverbial dead albatross. And everyone is going to know it. He may legally have a seat, ...

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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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If you go to Ron Price’s blog there is nothing but a single post – also dated November 9th as the previous one about the “sign incident” – only this one is concerned with, of all things, “bio fuels” (here’s the permanent link to the post). Apparently, Price is trying to hide his earlier comments regarding his being caught stealing the Ron Miller signs. Well, as of this writing you can still follow this link and read the original post he made last Thursday… but in case THAT goes missing I’m going to copy and paste the original text of his statement here for future reference:

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Sign Incident

On the eve of the elections I came across a wrong that had been committed, signs that I had put up were taken down and others put in their place. I tried to correct it

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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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