RE: Youngquist article - WS Journal

Why do voters not aim their frustrations and votes regarding inadequate schools on the school board?

I'm not sure the voters understand the beast we call Stokes Co. Public schools.

That one is easy. Frank Sells and Ron Carroll spent more than fifteen years coaching the talking monkeys on the school board on how to make everything that went wrong in the schools the fault of the County Commissioners. It will be interesting to watch when the pigeons come home to roost next year and Ron Carroll and Ernest Lankford find out they can't just throw the brakes on that rolling beast. It will also be interesting to watch when those two find themselves in an adversarial relationship with their former pals and butt-buddies on the BoE.

I await with breathless anticipation the campaign of 2010 when Stokes County taxes are 25% to 50% higher but the schools still suck out loud and off key and Ronnie and Ernie have to go out and convince people it is someone else's fault.

I'd like to see the Winston-Salem Urinal do a really useful article, like going out and asking people in Stokes County why they didn't bother to go vote. I could care less what the motivations were for the people who bought into the lies fed them by Lankford and company or the Democrats who were engaging in political dirty tricks. I want to know why Joe Sixpack decided to sit this one out.