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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Friends Who I think will vote for Biden

Update October 5

 From Upstate SC, Clark Price Atty off Wade Hampton, Gaffney Native, Catholic

Mike Chibbaro, Author the grand memoir of integration of Wade Hampton HS, The Mighty Generals, I think also Catholic as friend of Norm Macdonald, but could be Baptist as also friend of Clyde Mayes. Smile

Ross Glidewell, raised a neighbor of SC Gov Riley and doubles tennis partner of Paul Scarpa's son in the 90s Juniors in SC. Ross Wife is a colleague of Price above and Scarpa's Mother, Paul's wife a great friend of Kenny Stabler.

    a NE Bama friend who works for UPS though anonymous for the times being

   I think it safe to say David Shi, the former President of Furman, I can't imagine otherwise.

   And Ron Rash cause he has stated publicly his last collection of Short Stories mused by Bonhoeffer. Nobody I know who knows Bonhoeffer and the human heart as deeply as Rash, plumbs the depths like Marilynne Robinson in very recent exhaustive profile in the New Yorker; they ain't voting for Trump or have anything to do with the Mitch mcConnell/Lindsey Graham shenanigans on the Supreme Court cause the Bible Rightly understood speaks against it!!!


 This list will be composed of public facebook statements, impressions, conversations, text and sometimes general assessment and observation. Most of these folks Ive known along life's way in South Carolina in Gaffney or at Furman, a few in Tennessee and Rome Georgia, immediate and extended Family, Baptist circles and the last 30 years in Alabama

  Diane Broome Masters. Gaffney Facebook mid 60s grad, ardent progressive

    Barty Sides, Presbyterian minister's son, Beta Club now in NE

Mike Hammett. Lived down the street in SC, classmate, met Joe Biden at Limestone College

 Claire Brown Byars. Through Facebook, Miss Everything that Beppy Rankin and Margaret Callison didn't get Class of 71 GHS. And there were plenty of honors to go around, All three outstanding Gaffney products, known mostly by reputation

   Andie Macdowell, the actress. She thrived in the good side of the Billy Graham family during her stay in Asheville NC about ten years

    Libby Mitchell, Gaffney product, former LT gov of Maine, first name basis with Hillary Clinton and and Elizabeth Warren and her nephew Tim Childers who was on Danny Ford's Natty in 81

   Cathy Littlejohn, Binky in HS. Outspoken.

   Patti Scruggs. Strong leaner in the anti Trump direction, though she could surprise me. Distant relative of the banjo great Earl Scruggs, who was in DC in at least one anti war March Vietnam era.

   Robert McCraw, Tennis team, 1969 Gaffney Beta Club President.

   Clark Price. I hope he doesnt disappoint me

   Roger Milliken Jr. Good friend summer of 1970. Donated quarter million to Obama in 2012 so I doubt he's switched to Trump in the interim.

   Randall Balmer. Religious political author. Dartmouth

    Family

    My sister one of the best Sunday School teachers in Upstate SC. And her son and likely her husband though he doesnt talk about it as much as the rest of us.

    First Cousin Tim Wood, history with the CBF and married to the niece of former SC State Treasurer, Grady Patterson

    Cousin Dixie on Momma's side and her husband Scott. Ordained UMC minister

    Penny Cooper, Meta, Lynn Arve friends of my sister in Upstate SC and likely Karen Baker Carter though she is in a bind newly minted with Pickens Co SC State House Rep. Almost for certain her Youngest Daughter who majored in all things Dolly Parton at U Tenn is with us

    Todd Heifner, wife , at least three of five sons, and the rest of extended family unless you deep in the Louisiana Branch of the extended cousins.

    Almost two thousand or more of my friends in CBF and Alliance of Baptists and the other 30 thousand I don't know by first name

    I expect at least sixty percent of the Limestone College Trustees in Gaffney will vote for Biden, maybe 65 percent for Jaime Harrison against Lindsey Graham; 90 percent or more of the Furman, Wofford and Converse Trustees and 88 percent of Presbyterian College. Let's hope at least 55 percent of Clemson trustees. I think itis a given Trevor Lawrence and and Darrien Rencher are Biden voters with their friend Deshaun Watson and Drew Brees, though Dabo may slide into the Trump column for reasons that make sense only to himself and the senior staff and Praise Team of New Springs Gloryland Mega campus congregation Seneca SC and elsewhere across the Upstate in concert with Church of the Highlands from Gadsden through Bham to Tuscaloosa Alabma.

     Dann Brown a friend of Bishop Tutu and Carlyle Marney from Furman are voting Biden as is his predecessor in Clarkesville Ga Episcopal pulpit Barbara Brown Taylor.

     Brett Morgen, my friend and great friend of Mick Jagger I have to imagine is in the Biden camp in honor of his fellow Jew Ruth Bader Ginsburg and all indications are Eric Motley whose love of RBG testified in the Wash Post is moving from Bush 43 White House over to Biden in this election. How could he explain himself if otherwise at the Aspen Institute.

   Former Miss Alabama contestant and good friend of Clemson and Jax St chaplain Tad Tadlock and Clemson Natty lineman Marler under Danny Ford, they all Biden all the Way.

     John Linley Baker of Charleston, Al Newell and wife Elsie, Judy Clark, Steve Miller,  Vic Greene, all Furman friends will vote Biden as well as current influencers Minor Mickel Shaw and you have to expect President Davis given the impassioned proclamations on Breonna Taylor recently at Good Faith Media. Mary Alice Birdwhistle now in Louisville formerly of Davis congregation in Waco Texas, Calvary Baptist church.

    I could go on and on, David Currie great Baptist in Texas and Mark Baggett great Baptist from Bham both of whom at my invitation tried to convince Donnie Myers and others Feb 2002 what was at stake in the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC. Donnie Says why bring it here, and today Casey Mattox of Collinsville is on the front page of the NY Times. Whether Donnie coulda directed him somewhere else, who is to day. But Donnie's extended family now includes Eric Mackey the state school supe for Alabama.

    Charles Marsh, friend of myself and Susan Weaver and her husband John of Collinsville, Marsh the definitive biographer of Bonhoeffer is in the Biden Camp. So does all this change many votes in Gaffney or Collinsville? I doubt it, maybe Avery Payton but maybe not. But History will show a little of this moment for posterity and my world as recorded on this "illustrious" blog

   Oh Screenwriter Russ Beene, clearly Biden, Biden all the way.


  

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