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The Politics of North Wilkesboro
I was in my late twenties. I first ran for office once 29. And at the time, the town council had a mayor that just kind of, I don't want to say went off the rails. He quoted North Wilkesboro town employees as saying they should "go straight to hell" and get quoted by him. It was very embarrassing. Because at that time, our community had taken a lot of economic hits. NAFTA annihilated our community. At one time, we had the world's largest mirror plant located in North Wilkesborough. We were just economically in, I don’t want to say a bad place, but we had declined.