The Alternative: by Sandra Stroud
I’ve been giving some thought to the many ways the Cleveland County Republican Party (CCGOP) is running good members and candidates away. This crowd on the CCGOP Executive Committee runs the party and I contend this crowd is damaging the party. The number of unaffiliated voters is growing because they don’t fit into the Republican or the Democrat Party’s “silliness.”
When a registered Republican steps forward to be a candidate for an elected position; the Executive Committee should support and help them. But, not so, this crowd does not support them unless they have hand-picked the candidate. This is just wrong!!! A citizen must meet the social standards of this little society of sneaky and rogue conspirators.
The only reason for Cleveland County to be “red” is simply because the Democratic Party has gone so far left with their policies that the folks in this county just don’t think that way. We’re mostly a rural county and once was a farming and manufacturing county of farmers and mill workers. Common folks who work hard, raise their families with Christian values and most have at least a high school education; these folks don’t like a government to control every aspect of their lives as the Democrats do.
The abortion issue was and still is a huge issue among Republicans/Conservatives voters. Democrats want to kill the population of Americans and replace it with illegals of all nationalities. That’s NOT the American way!! That is the reason Cleveland County is “Red.” It’s not because the Republican Party did anything to help. It was just the best alternative available. But now the Independent voters are gaining ground.
As the old-timers of Republicans pass away, a new crowd of so-called Republicans infiltrate the Party and many of them don’t have good intentions. Some are evil and corrupt and their purpose is to bring about dissention and conflict. This kind of people would not have been welcome during the reign of the old-timers. The old-timers simply would not have allowed the kinds of recent conspiracies that we have seen from a group of rogues. I learned early-on that I do not fit into this kind of a political party. Therefore, I have changed my affiliation.
So, you see folks, the crowd who is running the Republican Party is a small group who control the money and their hand-picked candidates. If you are not one of the “chosen,” you just have to forge ahead without their help.
Remember, it’s the common folks-we the voters-who help the candidates with their campaigns. The Executive Committee and their “high society” will do nothing more than harm you as Danny Blanton and Ronnie Grigg have learned the hard way. Only to depend on the Common Folks to win their elections by wide margins over the hand-picked candidates.
Sandra Stroud
Editor’s Note: Sandra Stroud has always spoken her mind as she sees things. This time is no exception. The corrupt and evil shenanigans pulled on Danny Blanton and Ronnie Grigg in the 2022 School Board Elections by the Rogue Republican criminal syndicate and condoned by the CCGOP leadership gives absolute credibility to Sandra Stroud’s true and accurate statements and comments. Unfortunately, we can all expect the very same thing from the Crooked Rogue Republicans in the 2024 Cleveland County elections. Only thing is, this time around a full slate of good Trump supporting Republican candidates will be recruited to run against the five Rogues on the School Board and the three Rogues on the Commissioner’s Board in the 2024 Elections. This time it will be Truth running against Lies. Fact running against Fiction. Competence running against incompetence. The 2024 Elections will bring Cleveland County out of the Stone Age and into the 21st Century.
Stay tuned folks. Cleveland County is about to have a turn for the better!!
One last thought. The Democrat and Republican Parties both have conspired to make it difficult for Unaffiliate candidates to run for elected office. If you are a conservative unaffiliated registered citizen who wants to run for elected office in Cleveland County in 2024, it is advised that you change your voter registration to REPUBLICAN as soon as possible. Otherwise you will have to run as a “Petitioner” and have to get a Petition up with over 2,500+ verified signatures. Which is way too much trouble, time and effort.
Sandra P. Stroud
Editor’s Note: Ms. Sandra Stroud is a fearless Champion of right and proper government in Cleveland County and the US. When Prayer at the beginning of School Board Meetings was the issue, Sandra Stroud stood up and voiced her strong support in front of 600+ citizens. When Shelby Schools refused to teach a deaf child, Sandra Stroud single-handedly made Shelby Schools mend their ways. When the Cleveland County Commissioners surrendered to a Federal Lawsuit against them by agreeing to a settlement that was Un-Constitutional; Sandra Stroud put her name and money behind a Federal Lawsuit and took the Cleveland County Commissioners to the US Federal Courts in Washington, DC and made the Commissioners mend their cowardly ways. When Sandra Stroud sends me her messages, I publish them. Word for Word. Sometimes satire, sometimes prose. When Sandra Stroud speaks, Robert A listens. When Sandra Stroud writes, Robert A publishes. If there is a typo, misspelling or unclear language, that is Robert A’s, mistake, not Sandra Stroud.
Folks, there are more citizens like Sandra Stroud and Robert A in Cleveland County that want bullying stopped in our schools and in our School Board and education improved. We want no more corruption like what was found out about the Catawba Casino, the bribed sale of our hospital for 2 cents on the dollar, endless sales tax increase referendums, endless property revaluations where Cleveland County has deployed drones to peep into our bedroom windows looking for whatever it is that they can use to raise property taxes over. And it goes on and on.
Stay tuned folks. If you want the truth, the whole truth and justified and logical speculation, you will get it here and perhaps not anywhere else in the same detail and depth of understanding. Also, folks, if you want to throw YOUR 2 cents into our knowledge base or just share your opinion, send it to Robert A. Your identity will be protected. It is completely understood that RETALIATION is alive and well in Cleveland County.