Dr. Parker Griffith for Progress

In a conservative area, it's not every four years that a U.S. Congressional seat is up for grabs. In two weeks, we of the Shoals and the Tennessee Valley will have the opportunity to elect the person who will serve us for the next twenty years or more. This is undoubtedly the second most important race on the ballot and one that we should thoroughly research.

If you've read my bio, you know that I am conservative. I don't deny that I usually support the majority of Republican candidates in any election. There is no way that I can support Wayne "Peanut" Parker.

Unlike his opponent, Wayne Parker has run a dirty race and now must reap what he has sewn. Even without his unfounded jabs at Dr. Griffith, Parker has shown himself to be a man of little substance who will grasp at any issue in order to create a controversy and amass votes from those who are of the lower strata of the population. Does any intelligent person actually think the U.S. Department of Education is passe'? Perhaps Wayne Parker plans to create the Department of Misinformation and ensconce himself as its director.

Vote Dr. Parker Griffith on November 4. Our future depends on it.


What's up with this: Yesterday's column on Sheffield potholes garnered some e-mail and comments--namely, the Darby family should be ashamed of its part in allowing Sheffield to become the eyesore it has in the last thirty years.