Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Re: [WardFive] A Sad Day in Ward 5 Politricks

Eric- I usually dont respond to messages- But please know what you are
talking about- I was a witness and a participant to what was done and
comments by this Pastor. The Bible says not to be double tongue. Make
sure you get the information I was present and ask to come to the
altar. I dont play like that.

On 4/24/12, Eric J. Jones, MSF <ejjones.threed@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fellow Neighbors,
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> I must say that this weekend we once again hit a low point in our ward. It
> started out last week with the news that the pastor of a church in our ward
> decided to get behind a candidate for the vacant Ward 5 City Council Seat.
> Instead of being respectful members of this list serve and the greater
> community looked for every reason under the sun to criticize and attack this
> man of the cloth and the candidate. They attacked the way he spoke into the
> camera and the way he looked yet they at no point said anything about the
> content of his message which is most important. Some even had the audacity
> to state that the pastor was handing out endorsements by saying that he had
> endorsed another candidate a few weeks earlier with no proof of such and
> this was followed up by supporters of another candidate asking who the
> pastor would be endorsing next.
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> This was capped off on this past Monday with the delayed release of an
> announcement for this same candidate about a community cook out he was
> hosting which was sent to the list serve last Tuesday. It is simply
> shameful that this is the type of politricks that our ward has been reduced
> to and it is scary to think that many of the folks who are involved in these
> actions are the same so called leaders (I use this term very loosely at this
> point) of our ward.
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> Neighbors, I draft this message only to let you know that reasons such as
> these are exactly why we are in the situation we are in now. Instead of
> measuring an individual based on their work history, track record of success
> and selected the best qualified person for the job we continue to make this
> a high school popularity contest in which we attack those who run against or
> support other candidates. I ask that as we wind down in this campaign that
> we get away from these activities as they do nothing to help the candidates
> you are supporting and only show the types of lows that they are willing to
> stoop to, to get elected. One can only question what they will do once in
> office.
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> In closing I will say that I chose very early on to support Drew Hubbard for
> this seat not only because I feel he has the best resume and background to
> step in from day one and do the job but also because I knew that he and the
> people he surrounds himself with wouldn't stoop to these levels to get him
> elected. In a situation such as this it is not what you say but what you do
> and who you surround yourself with and to be honest it is shameful that
> folks who say that they have the best future interest of this ward in mind
> are surrounding their selves with the same folks who pushed and supported
> the folks who got us in this current situation. This in no way will improve
> our community.
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> Eric J. Jones
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> <mailto:info@threedgroup.com> ejjones.threed@gmail.com
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> P Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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