
{"id":13442,"date":"2010-10-28T12:49:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=13442"},"modified":"2010-10-28T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T20:50:31","slug":"endorsement-letter-lawson%e2%80%99s-double-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/10\/28\/endorsement-letter-lawson%e2%80%99s-double-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsement Letter: Lawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s double-speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, I attended a candidate forum at Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill with our congressman, David Price, and his opponent, B.J. Lawson. Knowing that Lawson opposes comprehensive immigration reform and instead emphasizes sending troops to guard the border, I was struck by Mr. Lawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s apparently thoughtful response to a question about the DREAM Act, which would offer a path to college education for hardworking immigrant students who were brought to the United States as kids.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson said it gave him \u00e2\u20ac\u0153heartburn\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to know the doors of opportunity were being shut to these children because of their immigration status. He said the DREAM Act was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153worth discussion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and even gave the impression that he would potentially support the bill. (Price is a longtime cosponsor of the bill.)<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise, the very next day on his website Mr. Lawson attacked David Price for supporting the DREAM Act, which he disparaged as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153amnesty for illegal immigrants\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153government handout.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The candidate B.J. Lawson at the forum was not the same person who desperately attacked David Price the next day. And the worst part is, Lawson was attacking David for something Lawson himself appeared to support \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or at least consider supporting.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I know about David Price: He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a man of his word. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot more than I can say for B.J. Lawson. Price has my vote.<\/p>\n<p>Hank Elkins<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, I attended a candidate forum at Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill with our congressman, David Price, and his opponent, B.J. Lawson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13445,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13442\/revisions\/13445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}