Thanks To State Treasurer Dale Folwell
Dear Editor,
Thank you North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell for not allowing the giant corporate political activist Unilever/Ben & Jerry’s to escape responsibility for violating North Carolina law. Unfortunately today, most would have let it slide.
Thank you for not allowing them to thumb their corporate noses at Israel and North Carolina, with antisemitism and terrorist Hamas sympathetic gestures in Gaza. For taking what should not be considered a controversial legal and moral stand against antisemitism.
What has happened in America and North Carolina when taking the moral high ground is controversial?
Clyde Hunt Jr.
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Well said, Mr Hunt.
C.S. Lewis foretold this moral ambiguity in several of his books. Essentially, he argued that there ARE absolutes; absolute truth, absolute beauty, absolute right and absolute wrong. The ability to differentiate between these opposites is natural and normal, particularly in children, which is why they’re always outraged by an injustice. “That’s not fair!” they exclaim indignantly.
Unfortunately, the US government schools try their best to confuse kids and exorcise their natural moral clarity.
The results can be seen in the society we live in.
I would hope Mr. Folwell would divest from woke globalist funds like Blackrock, State Street, et. al. that focus on DIE and “social justice” rather than maximizing returns on investment.
Well said, Clyde. We should all support indiscriminate bombing of schools, hospitals, refugee camps, men, women and children because Hamas may be hiding within or beneath the ground they happen to be trying to survive on. Don’t forget, that Christians are living and dying in Gaza too, but we can’t let a few Christian deaths get in the way of a good slaughter of the innocent to try and root out a fraction of that population who are unscrupulous members of Hamas. We also can’t support targeted strikes because Netanyahu needs to destroy Gaza and the West Bank so that Israelis can settle that land and further subjugate any remaining Palestinians.
The Mossad and Netanyahu knew about the Hamas plot well before October 11th and did nothing to stop it because it suited their ultimate goal, the genocide of Palestinians. But you have to look outside Fox News and Infowars to see any of that coverage.
Better yet, and what the Republican Party has wanted to do since 911 is, kill EVERYONE who follows the Muslim faith, worldwide.
Seek help.
– And you mean October 7th.
Guess conservatives only like Free Speech when it fits their own morals.
Free speech is evident on this forum.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from the consequences of that speech. If a corporation publicly takes a stand on a particular matter, then they can’t cry foul when people who don’t support that opinion choose to take their business elsewhere. This is why businesses should stay out of politics, looking at you Disney.
Michael Jordan said it best when asked why he refused to politicize his brand, “Because Republicans buy sneakers too.”
Unilever, P&G, etc.; are ripe for boycotts. It’s hard to boycott everything, but I do practice it as best as I can. Jen & Berry have been on my s^*t list for a long time – try Blue Bell.
Folwell is considered by many who know him as an old-school conservative who is a fiscally strong, no-nonsense numbers guy who attacks problems, not people.
Folwell is currently the state treasurer and a past Winston-Salem school board member. He worked for Pat McCrory as his head of the Division of Employment Security. He spent four terms in the NC House of Representatives, including a term as speaker pro tempore.
Many NC GOP “experts” and consultants indicate Folwell has a slim chance of winning the primary and wish he had stayed as the state treasurer, at which he has excelled overseeing the public purse.
Folwell has a long record of accomplishments during his political career. Pat McCrory says that Folwell “is a doer, not a talker, running against a talker. Robinson tells people what they want to hear, and I’d say Folwell tells people what they need to hear, which is not always the smart thing to do politically.”
The State Employees Association executive director Ardis Watkins credits Folwell for increased transparency in managing the state’s pension fund and his work on health care, saying, “This is by far the best treasurer we’ve ever had in this state; he is as honest as any public official I’ve ever met. He is as capable as any public official I’ve ever met.“
Chris Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University, said, “Mark Robinson is an engaging speaker; he’s a genius at drawing attention to himself. Dale Folwell is quiet and is not a practiced speaker, but Folwell is a guy with an impressive history.”
I hear the naysayers telling me I’m wasting my vote, but I must follow my conscience and support Dale Folwell for NC Governor.