I learned about an exchange of negative campaign fliers between NC House District 58 candidates Ralph Johnson and Alma Adams today.
The Carolina Peacemaker has an editorial today urging voters to put the "hit pieces" in the trash, and for the most part declines to detail the charges, concluding that "they each contain misleading, inaccurate statements about each candidate."
A knowledgeable source told me the flier attacking Ralph Johnson alludes to a cocaine conviction first reported in the News & Record, while the Peacemaker reports that the campaign literature states, in part: “Ralph has no family values, no wife, no children, no PTA membership & etc.”
I spoke with Adams at a joint meeting between members of the Guilford County legislative delegation and the Greensboro City Council. She said she had no knowledge of the flier attacking her opponent until she received a call from the Peacemaker about it, adding, "That's not my style." When she received the call, she told me, Adams thought they were calling about the flier produced by the Johnson campaign called "5 Reasons to vote for Ralph Johnson." She said the flier spuriously states that she allowed federal stimulus funding to go to illegal aliens.
The Peacemaker editorial board denounces the fliers as "negative campaigning [that] does everyone a disservice."
I would have to concur: The effect of this exchange is likely to discourage voters from going to the polls and make them cynical about the process.
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