Every household and address in Cleveland County gets stuff in the mail from Cleveland County all the time. It would cost a candidate running for elected office a fortune ($35,000+estimated) to put out such mailings. Also, Cleveland Community College has a policy that states:
2.23.1 POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF EMPLOYEES, EXCEPT FOR THE PRESIDENT
(1) Employees who decide to run for public office shall notify the Board of Trustees through the President of their intentions to run and shall certify that they will not campaign or otherwise engage in political activities during their regular hours or involve the College in their political activities.
This policy, especially the last few words are clear enough for the CCC President, Executive Vice President, All Deans and everybody else, including Guy Suttle to understand. Yet Cleveland Community College drafts up this magazine that was delivered to every address in Cleveland County between July 17 and July 21 with Guy Suttle’s full size picture on the cover page, full page picture and article on page 4 and another pic and write-up on page 7. There is an article titled “Motivated to Succeed! Claudia Arrez’s Story.” Claudia Arrez is an adult Hispanic woman with children who could not speak English in 2013. The article did not include anything abut how Claudia entered the United States, how she ended up in Cleveland County and how any of that was legal immigration or not. At the end of the article Claudia was bragging on CCC by stating “They have everything here and it doesn’t cost anything.” Well, it didn’t cost Claudia anything but it cost us taxpayers plenty. Now Claudia Arrez is planning to enter the CCC Adult Education Program this fall. Four years of free education and now some more free education. I suspect the free programs Claudia has signed up for probably also includes paid childcare, most likely Food Stamps and paid her cash money along the way. A deal most of us home grown Cleveland County residents do not get. And, right in the middle of this CCC publicity campaign pushing Guy Suttle, Guy Suttle files to run for the School Board on July 20, 2017. Totally involving Cleveland Community College in his campaign with this CCC free political advertising. Totally in violation of CCC policy.
So, I inform (and show) CCC Board of Trustees Chairman Wes Westmoreland about this CCC magazine. Westmoreland was able to confirm that Suttle was indeed in and on the magazine cover and said he would look into it. At the August 8, 2017 CCC Board of Un-Trust-Worthies meeting Dr. Aiken brings out two letters of those who had signed up for political office. Guy Suttle running for the School Board and Emily Sisk who is running for the Belwood Town Council. Note that Emily Sisk did not have her picture posted all over CCC Magazines mailed to every address in Cleveland County like Guy Suttle did. But the real question was and is whether or not Guy Suttle and others at CCC conspired to advance Guy Suttle’s chances of winning an elected office on the school board by this illegal $35,000+ in political advertising for Guy Suttle. Nary a word or thought about that. But Guy Suttle had to have known he was considering running for an elected political office and took advantage of the situation. and the CCC Interim President and Board of Un-Trust-Worthies just want to forget about it. And have!!!
