Yep! Here are the stats: 16,462, to be exact. Blair has tried to kill our local wetlands regulation (as the chairman of the EPC), he has launched an attack on gays and he thinks the monkeys escaped from MOSI and evidently he has over 16,000 people who agree with him. Welcome to Hillsborough. At least he will face Kevin Beckner in the general election who won handily among Dems last night. Also of interest is that Hagan (who votes like Blair, only refraining from actually speaking………..maybe that is a blessing) was elected by 3,000 more votes than Tom Aderhold in District 2, a race where only 8,000+ voters weighed in total. A last-minute write-in blocked Dems and Independents from voting in that race excluding some 110,000+ voters………. so a handful of people have just sentenced the whole county to four more years of this puppet for special interests.
One can only hope that people will educate themselves before November!
This article appears in Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2008.