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BEN LEDBETTER / THE HERALD
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The Kings Mountain Herald
A worker dumps gravel at the site of the Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County’s
Kings Mountain Branch.
Cleveland County voters
To the editor:
At this critical time
regarding Cleveland
County's shortfall of funds, I
find it rather disturbing that
one of “our” state represen-
tatives did not vote for
House Bill 1490.
House Bill 1490 provides
that local revenues may not
be withheld or impounded
by the governor.
Representative Andy 20 the liberal d
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this vote. He did not have Regardless of where you Kings Mountain just not going to take it any- DUKE ENERGY
an excused absence as seen
listed in Capital
Correspondence on
Thursday, September 19,
2002.
Does this mean that Rep.
Dedmon thinks it’s okay for
the governor to take away
the county's rightful money?
Or is this just another
opportunity for Rep. :
Dedmon to - well, do what
he does best - vote for more
tax hikes? 125i bre
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represent, he didn’t vote.
How can we as voters
send Andy Dedmon back to
Raleigh with Cleveland
County’s best interest at
heart? Perhaps “no show”
Dedmon has a reasonable
explanation for this lack of
concern for our county.
Regardless of the political
mumbo jumbo the fact shall
forever remain that when
Cleveland County needed
him the most, Andy did not
vote.
It’s time to take away
Andy Dedmon's voting
privileges in Raleigh.
(Cleveland County needs
. someone who will look after
the county when voting time
rolls around.
So when election day rolls
around, let's send Andy this
message: You didn’t vote for
us so we're not voting for
you.
Greg Anthony
Kings Mountain.
‘Voters should
excuse Dedmon
permanently
To the editor:
Last week the NC House
of Representatives voted to
defeat a lottery referendum
bill. I obtained a copy of the
roll call vote and noticed
that only one representative
out of the 120 members of
the House was not present
to vote on the bill.
‘That one person out of 120
was Andy Dedmon.
The roll call vote shows
him as an “excused
absence.” The remaining 119
members of the House voted
either Yes or No as their con-
stand on the lottery referen-
dum, we should be outraged
that Andy Dedmon did not
have the character and
courage to at least vote and
take a stand one way or
another. He has denied
Cleveland County a voice on
this important issue that
after all of these years, final-
ly came to a vote in the
House.
Enough is enough. It’s
time to permanently excuse
Andy Dedmon fromthe
Héwuse for good in the elec
tions in November!
William Young
deserves our vote
in November
To the editor:
Both as an officer and later
as Chief of Police at the
Kings Mountain Police
Department until my retire-
ment, I worked with Bill
Young during his entire
tenure as District Attorney.
Throughout that time, I have
received courteous, prompt
and professional assistance
from Mr. Young and his
entire staff. Never has Mr.
Young or his staff been too
busy to assist me and my
former department with
advice, the screening of
cases, and, or‘course, with
the vigorous prosecution of
our cases.
As a law enforcement offi-
cer with many years of
experience, I am aware of
how difficult it often is to
prosecute cases. Witnesses
become unwilling to testify,
they sometimes are impossi-
ble to locate, and at times
lack credibility because of
their own past. In spite of
these difficulties, Mr. Young
has personally prosecuted
many of the most serious
crimes and has used avail-
able technology and thor-
should bring Dedmon home
ough preparation to present
these matters to the court
and jury. I completely sup-
port his re-election to
District Attorney.
I urge the voters of
Cleveland and Lincoln coun-
ties to vote for experience,
professionalism, innovative
techniques, and hard work
by re-electing William
Young in November.
Letter policy
We appreaciate your let-
ters to the editor and
encourage you to write.
Because we receive so many
letters, however, we must
impose guidelines to ensure
that as many readers as pos-
sible are able to share their
views. We therefore limit the
» number of letters that any
one person may. have pub-
“fished to one a month, Also,
we ask that you keep your
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769, Kings Mountain, NC
28086 or fax them to (704)
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VETO
From 4A
Local administrations have
been forced to cut expenses
to the bone and beyond.
Layoffs, benefit cuts and a
lack of raises have become
common among municipal
employees throughout the
state.
Last year, state lawmakers
passed a huge tax increase,
citing the need to maintain a
“Triple A” rating with the
bonding agencies. At the
time, just nine states in the
union had such a rating,
something nobody pays
much attention to anymore.
In spite of the tax hike,
the rating agencies lowered
the state’s status anyway.
North Carolina is in trou-
ble because of a free-spend-
ing legislature and a free-
spending governor.
The House of
Representatives is to be
applauded for at least trying
to do something about it.
JIM
From 4A
by the bad old Republicans?
Because the Florida voting
. officials are all Democrats,
dumb Democrats, and this
wasn’t a Democrat against a
Republican, this was a
Democrat against a
Democrat.
But Reno hasn’t given up
yet. She’s right in there ask-
ing for recounts. She does
say she won't sue. I guess
that’s because she knows
that if a lawsuit makes its
way through the Florida
courts, the U.S. Supreme
Court will shoot it down.
Eventually, of course,
Reno and the other
Democrats will finally real-
ize that Jeb Bush is the gov-
ernor of Florida, and all the
voting problems are, more
than likely, his fault. That's
when the finger pointing
will start.
There were two Clinton
cabinet members running
for office in the latest round
of elections. Neither fared
very well.
Reno, of course, was
cheated out of a potential
run for governor of Florida
by Jeb Bush, George's broth-
er. The second Clinton pro-
tege who failed was Andrew
Cuomo, son of Mario - ,
Cuomo, a former minor
league baseball player and
politician.
Cuomo dropped out of
the Democrat gubernatorial
primary in New York when
the polls showed there was
little, if any, interest in his
candidacy.
Meanwhile, when Reno
finishes crying about how
she was cheated in Florida,
people on country roads in
places such as French Lick,
Ind., Olathe, Kan., Kearney,
Neb., and the like, should be
on the lookout for a dodder-
ing old woman in a red
pickup who is probably lost.
LETTER
From 4A
the governor says so.
Yes, our bond rating has
fallen. I'm afraid this is a
sign of worse things to
come if we as taxpayers
continue to elect the spend
thrift Democrats as we have
in the past. I implore you as
taxpayers not to continue
this spend, spend, spend,
tax, tax, tax form of govern-
ment any longer. Simply put
we just can’t afford it any-
more.
Too many times money is
wasted at all levels of gov-
ernment. Together we as
taxpaying voters can send a
more.
Our bond rating is gone
now, the first state in the
southeast to lose their rat-
ing. What will the governor
and the Democrat controlled
House and Senate lower
next?
While the Democrats may
be proud to have the high-
est tax rate in the southeast,
I for one am not proud but
ashamed that these people
we put our trust in and
gave our votes to have letra
us down.
Not it’s time we did
Shelby
BEN
From 4A
Carolina to work at another
newspaper.
I would like to thank the
' many people that helped me
with stories and with get-
ting around town. I appreci-
ate all the help I had.
Also, I would like to
thank my editor for the past
1.5 years, Gary Stewart. He
has given me knowledge
from his many years in the
newspaper business and
taught me a thing or two.
It was a big day for news
for a few weeks here and I
want to thank everybody for
letting me report the stories
that shape Kings Mountain,
Grover and southern
Cleveland County.
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