Admittedly, I’m a bit behind the eight ball here; but I wanted to put together a more accurate picture of campaign contributions than what Harold Smith is doing at www.goharoldsmith.com. I haven’t completed my review of the candidate financial statements from the past election; but something very interesting popped out at me.
Cabarrus Taxpayers Association Points Out The Speck In Larry Griffin’s Eye After Having One Professionally Installed In Their Own
During the Primary Election, the Cabarrus Taxpayers Association (by the way, when you Google “Cabarrus Taxpayers Association”, this is the first site that comes up) ran deceptive ads criticizing Larry Griffin claiming he was in the back pocket of developers during a P&Z meeting. Of course, it failed to mention that the entire P&Z board voted against the developers - including Larry Griffin.
Harold Smith told his website audience that Larry Griffin (in a post that has strangely disappeared) was the developers’ candidate and had taken money from several area developers. It is true that he took money from developers. He took $1,750 from several real estate developers and realtors - accounting for almost 15% of the total for his campaign.
However, what Harold Smith doesn’t mention is that the Cabarrus Taxpayers Association took in $7,000 from developers (no realtors) AND that accounted for more than 80% of their contributions during the Primary campaign.
Not that taking money from developers is necessarily a bad thing in and of itself. It just takes a lot of audacity to paint one candidate as beholden to a special interest group while that same special interest group is the primary funder of the PAC doing the criticizing.
Proving one again that when Harold Smith, Coy Privette, or anyone associated with the Cabarrus Taxpayers Association bothers to tell you the truth - they are only telling half of the truth…at best.
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1 The View From The Cheap Seats » Get Ready to Pay The Cabarrus Youth Tax // Mar 28, 2007 at 5:08 am
[...] It’s going to get worse before it gets better. Before 2005, there was little control over growth. Partly because the CTA served low-end developers interests before that of the people. In fact, as late as July 2006, 80% of the contributions to the CTA during that cycle came from developers. While that in and of itself isn’t so bad, much of that money was used to criticize other candidates for - you guessed it - taking money from developers. [...]