{"id":11576,"date":"2017-09-08T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11576"},"modified":"2017-09-08T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:55:52","slug":"this-was-a-little-dismaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/08\/this-was-a-little-dismaying\/","title":{"rendered":"This Was A Little Dismaying"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimberley Paige Barnette has been attracting attention in the last couple of days as she runs in the GOP<\/strong><\/em> primary for Mayor of Charlotte. Most people are talking about a Facebook post in which she said, HuffPo<\/strong><\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In a since-deleted Facebook post,\u00a0Kimberley Paige Barnette, 52, suggested voters should pick her Sept. 12 to be the Republican candidate for mayor because she is\u00a0\u201cREPUBLICAN & SMART, WHITE, TRADITIONAL.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s certainly appalling, and worth frowning at her for her apparent naivete. However, I also found this disturbing:<\/p>\n

In a debate last month, she responded to a question about helping lower-income residents by saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think we should encourage more lower-income people to [come to] Charlotte. We should attract higher-income people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Being Mayor is about taking care of the city and its residents, and while it makes sense to attempt to promote high paying jobs in the community, there is a sense to her statement that she’d just as soon run the lower-income folks out on a rail. Which may seem sensible until one realizes that resentment will just build up until they show up at the Mayor’s door with pitchforks and torches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kimberley Paige Barnette has been attracting attention in the last couple of days as she runs in the GOP primary for Mayor of Charlotte. Most people are talking about a Facebook post in which she said, HuffPo reports: In a since-deleted Facebook post,\u00a0Kimberley Paige Barnette, 52, suggested voters should pick \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11577,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11576\/revisions\/11577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}