
{"id":2589,"date":"2008-05-15T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/05\/15\/letter-vote-allison\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T14:42:30","slug":"letter-vote-allison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/05\/15\/letter-vote-allison\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Vote Allison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Allison is the better choice to fill the Orange County Board of Commissioners position in the June 24 run-off election because he is caring, thorough and a tireless contributor to the community he has loved since childhood. And, he is known to do his homework! <\/p>\n<p>At Efland-Cheeks Elementary, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our school,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where we both volunteer for RSVP, who would ever guess Leo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s credentials as he checks in early Wednesday mornings at the bell, regular as the school year, same as he has done for eight years? (We began the same year.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe kids adore this grandfatherly soul who listens and probes to discover their needs as together they grapple with math. (His career began as a high school physics and math teacher.) The children would never believe that their soft-spoken friend had been an IBM quality-control manager with a $15 million budget and a large staff!<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this, Leo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history of caring commitment and consensus building includes participation and leadership roles in many organizations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c among them, the comprehensive, five-year Orange County Task Force for Shaping Orange County\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Future; Legal Aid of North Carolina (as treasurer, then the first non-attorney named to serve as chair); Orange County Planning Board (chair); Department of Social Services board; Orange County Task Force for Central Orange Senior Center Design and Development and its bond drive; Orange Congregations in Mission board (chair, treasurer); Orange-Alamance Water System board; the ABC Board; the Human Rights and Relations board; United Voices of Efland (chair); and AME Gaines Chapel (trustee, steward, class leader).<\/p>\n<p>The Efland-Cheeks teachers wanted to formally endorse Leo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s candidacy but found they could not \u00e2\u20ac\u201c BUT I CAN! So, please vote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leo Allison\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as another effective voice for our Orange County Board of Commission in the June 24 run-off election! (Early voting begins June 5.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Nancy S. Gustaveson<br \/>\nChapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Allison is the better choice to fill the Orange County Board of Commissioners position in the June 24 run-off election because he is caring, thorough and a tireless contributor to the community he has loved since childhood. And, he is known to do his homework! At Efland-Cheeks Elementary, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153our school,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d where we both volunteer&#8230;<\/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-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}