Dec 09 2009
Wake County: Aiken Knows What’s Better for Your Children
You might remember a month ago after the Republicans swept the Wake County School Board elections that Clay Aiken came out and publicly denounced their plans to do away with “diversity” busing. His words caused him a minor controversy of his own as he was outed (yet again) as still being a registered voter in Wake County even though he no longer lives there. His vote in the election was then challenged. He announced before the Wake County Board of Elections that he intends to change his registration now to Chatham County, but he still knows more about what is better for Wake County children than their own parents do.
RALEIGH — Pop singer Clay Aiken announced Tuesday that he plans to change his voter registration but still speak out against the new Wake County school board’s plans to eliminate the current diversity policy.
Aiken made the announcement before the preliminary hearing today before the WakeCounty Board of Elections into whether he is qualified to vote under his mother’s Raleigh address even though he has a home in Chatham County. Aiken said he still considers Raleigh to be his home but wrote that he’ll change his voter registration “rather than get into a technical dispute.”
“I may not be able to effect change through my vote, but I will join other concerned citizens in speaking truth to those who would reverse decades of progress in Wake County schools,” Aiken said on his blog. “I stand by my opposition to policies that threaten to resegregate schools and eliminate diversity. These policies will not prepare children for the larger world.”
What the hell would Clay Aiken know about the larger world? He barely lived in it before shooting to stardom, a world where reality is masked by breakfast mimosas and limousines. Can Aiken name one, just one city that has shown undeniable benefits to having children spend three hours a day on a school bus as they are bussed clear across the county to a school 15 miles from their house? Just name one, Clay. It shouldn’t be that hard if it’s such an overwhelming success. Aiken’s time would be better spent worrying about his own child rather than butting into the parenting of others.
Pope says his challenge to Aiken’s vote on Oct. 6 was based on a News & Observer story about the blog post, in which a conservative activist was quoted saying that Aiken did not live in Wake County.
Aiken responded to Pope’s challenge.
“It just goes to show the lengths to which some folks will go to silence an opposing view,” Aiken said on his blog. “I’ve remained registered at the permanent address that I’ve long used here in Wake County because I consider Raleigh home.”
No, it just goes to show that you have to follow the damn law. The election law is pretty clear. You vote based on where you live, period. You don’t get to choose to vote in a city you no longer reside in just because you grew up there. Talk about being a selfish idiot. It’s really not that hard to understand. He, himself, must be a product of that phenomenal diversity busing program.
“What the hell would Clay Aiken know about the larger world?”
Clay Aiken was appointed UNICEF Ambassador in 2004. He has since visited some of the world’s most dangerous regions in Indonesia, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Mexico in support of educational and life saving programs for children.
I would say he knows a thing or two about the larger world.
http://www.unicefusa.org/partners/ambassadors/clay-aiken.html
Only 6% of the people voted. You should be more concerned about the apathy of the Wake country voters. That is the REAL problem. Do YOU speak up about that? Clay Aiken spoke up because he actually does care. No need for such a scathing article bashing someone else.
RS, I have written about voter apathy here plenty of times.
Stop hatin’ Bane. How many national singing competitions have you almost won? You must have been a Ruben fan.
No, Logic Connection, its worse than that. He’s a Republican.
Actually, I’m a Libertarian, you fool.
Logic, I have won the same number of national singing competitions as Aiken, which would be zero.
hey, I said ALMOST won. and while he may not have won American Idol, he most definitely won the heart of America, wouldn’t you all agree?