Lots going on here regarding Greensboro City Council member Jim Kee’s accusations against challenger Jamal Fox in the District 2 race:
According to Kee, a woman approached Fox outside the Old County Courthouse, where candidates and supporters were gathered to talk to early voters. The woman told Fox: “I better get my ‘A’ for voting.”
Fox denied that such a conversation took place.
“Nobody said anything like that to me, not at all,” he said.
Kee, an A&T alumnus and a former member of the university’s board of visitors, reported the incident Friday to Board of Elections Director Charlie Collicutt.
Collicutt said he gave Fox some information about the law.Fox, in turn, said he reported the incident to his university department chair, James Mayes.
Kee said he met with the university’s counsel, the provost and Fox’s department chair Monday to discuss the matter, which he said could negatively affect A&T.
“We should be upheld to the highest standard of the law if we are going to hold public office,” Kee said. “I am not trying to threaten his job. I specifically asked them not to fire him.”
On Monday, Fox said Mayes had given him a choice: Quit his job or his candidacy.
OK I’ll agree with former mayoral candidate George Hartzman and speculate that the woman’s comment was made in jest, although by the same token nothing surprises me any more regarding the things college campuses think they can get away with politically. And laws, or policies, or whatever that Fox supposedly has violated by running for public office have not been cited specifically by anyone, and if there is such a law/policy it’s crap. And Fox is right –hard to miss his campaign billboard along the I-40/85 corridor, right behind Aggie Stadium.
