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Posted on 04/04/2008 1:25:20 PM PDT by MitchellC
Carl Mumpower plans to stay home. The Republican 11th Congressional District candidate recently got into an argument about rules for a debate in Flat Rock, which is scheduled for April 10. Mumpower voiced concerns about rules that were established to limit the size of promotional material at the event. The Times-News was forwarded a chain of emails between Mumpower and the moderator of the debate. The Asheville City Council Member's email chains are notorious in Asheville. In the past, he has scolded the Asheville police chief for not enforcing drug laws and a local business leader for allegedly hiring illegal aliens.
Here's a sample:
Mumpower fired off this comment to forum moderator Terry Hicks: "Thank you Mr. Hicks - I note that these restrictions are not a recent development and that your email of yesterday was triggered by a spontaneous need to affirm your policies. Regrettably, had I known such in the beginning I would have respectfully declined your invitation. We are, after all, in the election season and artificial efforts to impair our ability to campaign in responsible fashion seem counter productive to a principled agenda. I am not inclined to play in rigged games - however well intentioned they may be. I wish your good group and the other two other candidates every success with the event."
Hicks responded, "Dr. Mumpower, It is regrettable you perceive our efforts to be the most fair to all candidates as 'rigged games.' No other candidate, and there have been many, have felt we were being unfair to them.
The need to make our method of handling promotional materials clear to all was brought to my attention because other candidates asked the question."
Freepmail or ping me on the thread to be added to the John Armor for Congress ping list.
NC ping (thanks for putting up with all my pings as of late!)
Mumpower is hated by the Asheville leftists like the plauge and epitomizes, in their minds, the typical liberal stereo-type character of a right wing nut job.
There are local hippies who would walk over broken glass to vote against him. Armor has had the decency to visit with some of these hippie blogger folk and discuss his ideas with them over the past couple of years. Their responses were appreciative of his effort. If any conservative candidate can assuage the Asheville-hippie, liberal anger it’s John Armor with his down home folksy way of presenting conservative common sense in a non-threatening, non-stereotypical way.
NP. Not a lot of “NC-action” going on these days. And since I can’t freep at work anymore, I’m relying on e1 else to pick up my slack and ping me to the NC-related threads.
What does that mean? Is he referring to printed material or video ads or what?
I don’t know what Mumpower does to make a living but he seems to be the kind that sales snake oil.....
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