Doug Clark opined that High Point's now demolished Clara Cox Homes ought to be relocated to north High Point instead of rebuilding the low income housing project on the existing inner-city site.

That's when all hell broke loose in the comments.

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Over at The Inside Scoop, Mark Binker rears his livin'-large-in-Raleigh head and posted an email from the chairman of the Guilford County Democratic Party.  The email is inviting Democrat folks to a fundraiser in support of Don Vaughan's upcoming re-election.  (Notice I didn't put the word 'campaign' after 're-election'.  This is a City Council election you know.  Normally incumbants can only lose if they try - real hard - to do so.)

Mark then asks a few ponderables:

"Is partisan involvement in city council election desirable, ethical, all that well known? Does this sort of e-mail constitute partisan involvement or cross a line you think ought not to be? Does anyone believe that the parties really do keep their mitts off of council elections?"

Discuss here... or there.

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Update and spin:  Now you see it, again.  Kindley put his post back up, albeit altered... and the comments are still gone.  In the comments to a subsequent post, Roch asked what happened to the original post.   Kindley explains it this way, "Unfortunaely , I had a power outage which erased my work."

But Roch ain't buyin' what Marcus is sellin': "See, the thing is Mr. Chariman, while I'm no expert, I know a little something about how blogging works. Your blog contents are hosted on computers at Blogger.com, not on your computer. So any power outage at your computer would not have caused the July 6th post and all its comments to disappear. I'm quite sure of that. Perhaps there is another explaination."

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The chairman of Guilford County's GOP is a man of his convictions... no wait... check that.

Yesterday, Marcus Kindley put up a post entitled 'Liberals (Progressives) Worry over Supreme Court Nominee'.  According to Kindley, here is the reason liberals are worried, "...You see, because they are in the minority, but believe their ideas are superior, they believe that they should be ruling the Country and the World".  He went on to suggest the Supreme Court is the handmaiden of all those nasty liberals seein' as they "...use the courts as a way to impose their ideas on us." 

Then the comments to Kindley's post started coming....  ten in all...  then, all of a sudden, when things were getting interesting... poof.  All gone.

Cone was able to grab a quote or two from Kindley's now-missing comments before the entire post was presumably removed by the author.  Over at Greensboro101 however, Roch Smith Jr. captured this image of Kindley's original post but the ten comments now belong to the ages.  Roch was in on the now-deleted conversation with Kindley and attests to the accuracy of Cone's quote grab, "...Unfortunately, the Kindley quote Ed cited was in the comments which have also been deleted. It was there though, in fact Kindley went on to make the point that people have only one guranteed right, to accept Jesus or not."

Oh really?  Did the chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party actually say such a thing?

Why was the post pulled?  Is it because he has changed his mind and now thinks all those liberals might not be so wrong after all?  Doubt it.   Or... could it be the Chairman realizes if regular people read some of Kindley's deepest darkest core beliefs they would be scared out of thier ever-lovin' minds that anyone could actually hold such screwed-up ideas about our democracy and the extent of our "guaranteed rights".

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