More people out there voicing displeasure with Trudy Wade’s victory over Sandy Carmany in the District 5 Greensboro City Council race. Fair enough, N&R editorial page editor Allen Johnson’s discontent is debatable, but now Hoggard says Carmany represents “grace” while Wade represents the “opposite of grace.”
Considering the fact that Wade beat Carmany by not a large but solid majority, Hogg’s comparison isn’t valid in my book. To make his case, he links to this 2006 N&R article reporting that Wade was finally conceding the ’04 county commissioners’ race to opponent John Parks. It helps to remember that Wade initially was thought to have won the seat until a tally of provisional ballots gave Parks the lead. Wade challenged the legitimacy of those provisional ballots and, as the article states, hundreds were thrown out, providing Parks with the slim 90-vote lead he would hold until the state’s highest court refused to hear Wade’s case.
You could argue that Wade was legitimately standing up for her rights in an electoral system that many agree is flawed. Of course she could have conceded the race and spared everyone a protacted legal fight. So could have Al Gore in 2000. Is that a valid comparison?
