What’s with Sen. Stan Bingham? I watched the interview with former Sheriff Hege on News 2. Hege admitted his mistakes and quickly pointed out, though he could talk all night about his good and bad deeds, he was just asking for another chance at a job he loved and, by most accounts, was the best there ever was in Davidson County.

Hege has to be taken, as he himself once stated, warts and all. I have read over 300 articles on the legendary sheriff, and not one of them could find anything wrong with his results. He put his life on the line in Vietnam. He put his life on the line hundreds of times in Davidson County. Remember, this big guy did not sit behind a desk nor was he 50 pounds overweight.

Bingham kept ranting about the 27 or so affidavits. He did not want to talk about the fact they were the reason the 13 charges were thrown out. Regardless, one or all of the attorney generals did not believe them.

Bingham could not even get his fellow senators to go along with him when he tried, if you can believe it, to change the Constitution of North Carolina just to try and stop his friend and neighbor, the present sheriff, from having to face Hege in a May primary. This ploy only fired up the Davidson County voters and resulted in over 2,000 yard signs being placed in yards by voter request. Don’t take my word for it, fuel up the old car and ride around the county and start counting.

Let’s settle the 2010 election like this. Put Sheriff Grice, Terry Price, Bingham and Hege into a room. Whoever comes out, is the new sheriff. Wait! Let’s give the first three a gun.

Randy Griffie

Thomasville

Are you smarter than

a fifth-grader? Part II

Which president was the grandson of a president? 23

Who was the first president to occupy the White House? 2

Which president said America is not a Christian nation? 44

Which president was wounded in a duel? 7

Which two presidents signed The Declaration of Independence? 2, 3

Which president hired more than 30 czars without governmental approval? 44

Which ex-president is buried in the National Cathedral in Washington? 27

Which president filled that office for the shortest time? 9

Which president’s wife hired 22 attendants for a total cost of $1,155,520 a year, paid with taxpayers’ money? 44

Which president introduced french fries to America? 3

Which president’s wife one was a teacher for the deaf? 29

Which president spent a million dollars of taxpayers’ money trying to get the Olympic Games held near the place where he lived? 44

Who was president during the war with Mexico? 11

Which president’s wife never entered the White House during his term? 23

Which president received the Nobel Peace Prize for making friends with Muslims who want to kill all infidels? 44

Which president was bankrupt in later life? 18

Who was president when petroleum was discovered in America? 15

Who was president when Florida was purchased from Spain? 5

Which president was elected with only one dissenting vote? 5

Who was president when the California Gold Rush began? 13

If you get 10 answers right, just say, “I’m smarter than a fifth-grader.” Then call the White House and you will receive a stimulus check in the mail for $500. (C’est une blague, mon ami!)

If you don’t like what I say, don’t blame it all on me because Joe Rowe told me to do it.

Answers correspond to order in which the presidents served.

CICERO A. CRUMP

High Point

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