{"id":3512,"date":"2018-10-25T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2018-10-25T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T20:39:04","slug":"political-rumors-gossip-and-such-that-usually-turns-out-to-be-true-reports-by-robert-a-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/2018\/10\/25\/political-rumors-gossip-and-such-that-usually-turns-out-to-be-true-reports-by-robert-a-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Rumors, Gossip and Such?? That usually turns out to be True!! Reports by Robert A. Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lots of political strategy, lies and downright dirty tricks are usually the norm in Cleveland
\nCounty politics. Commissioner Eddie Holbrook\u2019s campaign signs and mailers should be the
\nproof of that. But new political tricks, wrinkles and story telling have reached new highs, even
\nfor Cleveland County. And, especially for Early Voting.<\/p>\n

Sheriff\u2019s Race:<\/p>\n

Probably the weirdest shenanigan of them all was Sheriff Alan Norman\u2019s reported \u201cBirthday
\nParty\u201d held at the Hobby Lobby Early Voting site this past Tuesday. I have heard about a lot of
\nthings happening at Polling locations, but a Birthday Party is a new one on me. I don \u2019t know if it
\nis illegal, unethical or not, but it sure sounds strange. All I can say to that is Happy Birthday
\nAlan!
\nOf course anonymous reports of Deputies being \u201cexpected\u201d to work the polls for the incumbent
\nSheriff have come to me. Deputies putting up signs and such are usually reported around
\nElection time. Then, there are the eye witness reports of Sheriff Norman spending lots of time
\nworking the crowd at the Early Voting sites are rolling in every day. Same with Eddie Holbrook.
\nAlso, Sheriff Norman was reported to be rude to his opponent\u2019s wife as the woman was trying
\nto assist a 90+ year old lady get curbside assistance to vote.<\/p>\n

Getting out the Vote:<\/p>\n

The \u201cBlack Community\u201d usually led by \u201cBlack\u201d Preachers as well as the NAACP have long
\nadvocated for Sunday Early Voting. The thought being that is the Preachers could turn his
\ncongregation out of Church and have them go vote immediately. \u201cSouls to the Polls\u201d it is called.
\nThe rumor this year is that there will be buses ready at the participating Black Churches to haul
\nthe whole congregation directly to the polling places and run the voting age people in the
\ncongregation straight into the voting line.
\nOnly thing though is how \u201cPlantation Politics,\u201d led by Commissioner Eddie Holbrook, will play
\nout in this effort. On one side you have the Uncle Toms led by Rev. Lamont Littlejohn, Ron
\nHarrill, Larry Corry, the NAACP led by Mary Degree and perhaps others who are allegedly
\nclosely linked to Commissioner Eddie Holbrook. On the other side are those who have formed a
\ngroup called \u201cPartnership for a Stronger Cleveland County\u201d led by Rev. Billy Houze, Rev. Ray
\nLockhart, Rev. Charles Webber and others who want to break away from the Uncle Tom
\nPlantation Politics control mentality and work for the best interest of ALL the black community.<\/p>\n

Miscellaneous:
\nAllegedly Holbrook and Shelby Mayor Stan Anthony were called to a meeting with the
\nPartnership just a few days ago in an effort to try to find out why certain things were done that
\nhad negative impacts (lack of water service and a lack of serious consideration of a business
\nproposal) to certain black community members. Holbrook and Anthony show up (Although
\nHolbrook and the other appointed incumbent Commissioners refused to participate in the
\nPartners for a Stronger Cleveland County commissioner\u2019s debate a few weeks ago.) Reportedly
\nthere were no satisfactory responses by Holbrook and Anthony.<\/p>\n

Political Smackdown has told certain citizens that my article based on a Smackdown Episode
\nregarding certain candidates having to work for their pay and Eddie Holbrook spending his time
\non his $125,000 CCC job at the Early Voting place was \u201cmisleading.\u201d Go see for yourself who
\nwas misleading. Political Smackdown on Livestream:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/livestream.com\/accounts\/13073835\/events\/7634156\/videos\/182083965<\/p>\n

Notice Smackdown said that the Republican Sample Ballot did not have a recommendation for
\nSheriff, and provided a misleading answer why not. Notice that Sheriff Alan Norman is a
\nregistered Democrat and his Opponent (by Petition) is registered Unaffiliated.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned folks, There will be more to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lots of political strategy, lies and downright dirty tricks are usually the norm in Cleveland County politics. Commissioner Eddie Holbrook\u2019s campaign signs and mailers should be the proof of that. But new political tricks, wrinkles and story telling have reached new highs, even for Cleveland County. And, especially for Early Voting. Sheriff\u2019s Race: Probably the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cgg-investigations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensforgoodgovernment.org\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}