May 10, 2008 05:34 pm
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Wow! I guess the Phoenix must be getting really desperate. It is one thing to endorse a candidate, but why the attack campaign.
You now have me asking why you have such a stake in getting Hershel McBride elected. I will be the first to agree that John Tyler Hammons’ “happy” answer didn’t do much for me and told his campaign manager as much. I think he was trying to say something that McBride can’t seem to get across — “Let’s be positive.”
By the way, if you are going on the attack, why didn’t you point out McBride’s poor grammar when he said three times, “We need to learn ‘em” when talking about helping the youth of Muskogee.
Is this the kind of speech we want outside business people to hear when they look for a new company site?
You say that Hammons has no vision for Muskogee.
I disagree. He speaks of open and honest government for all. The only thing I heard from McBride was about the past, as if he had done it all by himself, and his bias towards the business interest in Muskogee.
He even talked about the last four years as if he were in office, in my opinion, a slight to Mayor Wren Stratton. Now, I am all for business (Calvin Coolidge: “The business of America is business”). I just want to know what the former mayor has done for the rest of us.
When McBride talks of growth without population, he is saying, “Let’s keep people out.”
By the way, as a history major, concerning our great President Lincoln, I will explain to you that service as a state or U.S. representative does not constitute “executive” experience, a charge both Obama and Clinton have had to answer during the present Democratic primary process.
Come on Phoenix, at least show fairness in your editorials.
Again, how did allowing fireworks to be sold inside the city limits help us?
William Henneberger
Muskogee
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