Opinion
BOS’s “Hillary Moment”
I have been a lifelong voting Republican since I was 18 years old. I am never the smartest person in the room, but I consider myself reasonably intelligent, being able to read the written word and interpret the unwritten underlying meaning of what is being communicated.
One of the turning points of the 2016 Presidential election between then candidates Trump and Clinton occurred on September 9th, when Clinton declared half of Trump’s supports to be a “basket of deplorables”. This could be argued as the beginning of the end for Clinton’s campaign. Fast forward 9 years later and the current Board of Supervisors has taken that same ill-fated position toward the community in which they serve.
In the BOS’s June 12th press release, it was suggested not once, twice, or even three times that if the community did not agree to their assessment of the Samuels Library debacle that they created, we were not “smart” people. In other words, disagree, and you are both stupid and incompetent in their eyes. Possibly it is the BOS that is not so smart in demonstrating a high level of incompetence in penning such an inflammatory piece against the entire community.
Regardless of the Library outcome and the pending Republican Primary, you have brought shame to yourselves, and you have shown your true disdain for the institutions and public that you serve.
This will not be forgotten.
Gregory A. Harold
Fork District
Warren County, VA
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