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Oh, I do hope that the Citizens of Pleasant Garden vote Bill Greene into office. He is a good man, and we need him right now. I am so tired of the lies that are being thrown out there to our community, most recently the letter from Donald Jones, which was full of lies and half-truths about Mr. Marshall, and implications about Bill. That "We Love PG" crowd needs to wake up, or grow up. I understand that Gene Kimel, who is backing Carla Strickland, is a member of the "We Love" group. Please folks.....vote for Bill and Alan Marshall!!!!

Alan stated during the debate that the part of the letter that said he wanted to grow town government. He also pointed out how Donald had cherry picked his statements to make it appear Alan was wanting to do something he was not. I guess you could call it lying by omission which Donald apparently did throughout the letter.

Honesty.

Every politician and his or her supporters say they are honest and have common sense. It’s true whether you are talking about POTUS, congress, state races, county, local and it is true of both our Mayoral candidates.

After watching many races I have learned to be suspicious of candidates that avoid talking specifics and to watch their actions past and present to gain insight to what you can really expect if they are elected.

Most of what I have heard from Bill Greene is nonsense talk about common sense, honesty and issues that are not really issues.

He wants to have prayer instead of a moment of silence before the meeting. We already have a prayer at meetings and the mayor & council voted 5-0 to keep it when the town attorney advised to go to a moment of silence 2 years ago.

He does not want to spend $15,000 on a book club. No one has ever proposed spending $15,000 on a book club.

He wants to have a balanced budget. We already have a balanced budget.

It would appear that he would say he is for the grass being green and the sky being blue if he though he could convince people that Anne Hice was against it.

They do differ on whether to put flags on the utility poles on holidays. Greene is for it, Hice said there were issues with getting permission from the utility companies.

The Question: If these so called issues that Greene is using as reasons to elect him are really just fluff, then what are the real issues? What does he really want to change?

Why are he and his allies so adamant that Pleasant Garden just can’t go on any longer without CHANGE?

Leadership.

From what I can tell the issue that started the conflict between the Lions Club and Anne Hice had to do with the Lions Club signs being removed from the state road sign poles on which they were hung by the Lions Club under the leadership of Bill Greene, then president of the Lions Club.

The Lions were so mad that they set out on a “misery loves company” mission to get other people’s illegal signs pulled down too. They quickly found that they were a minority in having chosen to hang their signs on state owned sign posts in PG, so they expanded their search to include signs that were on the property of the sign’s owner but also in the state road right of way. With a list of these right of way violators they attempted to have the State remove privately owned signs that were on the property of their owners.

I don’t appreciate the PG Lions Club under the leadership of Bill Greene behaving in this manner.

The PG Lions Club stated mission is: “To create and foster a spirit of understanding among all people for humanitarian needs by providing voluntary services through community involvement and international cooperation.”

It would seem that under the leadership of Bill Greene they have failed to follow their mission. They are not an organization promoting a spirit understanding, they have become a political organization.

The mission of incorporating the Town of Pleasant Garden was to preserve Pleasant Garden and stop the threat of annexation by Greenbsoro.

Anne Hice has kept us on mission.

Bill Greene says we are in need of a change. Keep the change Bill.

Leadership indeed. If there was an issue is calling the officials rather than the civic origination that gives so much to this town a good role model? All that had to be done was contact the Lions Club and have a discussion. It does not go without notice that all the other signs attached to these poles have not been reported or removed. One would ask why the law was only being applied to the Lions Club rather than everyone. Does Anne have something personal against the Club? As mayor shouldn’t she want to ensure that the laws were applied equally across the board? Should she not have readily dealt with all other property owners or signs? Even today many of the signs in our town are in violation of the law but no one sees Anne doing anything about that now do we? You may not appreciate the leadership Bill has shown but a whole lot of people in this town do. Less and less people appreciate the leadership or lack thereof shown by our current mayor.
So you think that Bill and the Lions Club failed in there mission because they expected equal treatment for everyone? Isn’t that part of our rights in America? Or do those only apply to Anne’s chosen people? The Lions Club has not become a political organization but is being used as a political football for Anne to kick around.
As for “Keep the change Bill”. Since Anne’s daughter is so proud of her taking out the trash, I would like to suggest that any change in his pocket be used to buy Anne trash bags that she can use at her next job so she will have something to do.
We are sorely in need of a change in leadership. We need someone in office that can be respected, held accountable and a role model for all. That person is Bill Greene.