Souther's packin heat
Cross-posted from Inside Scoop
Scoop was propped up typing notes at this morning's 7:30 a.m. county commissioners forum when we heard something that perked us up like a cup of black coffee.
Eddie Souther, the District 4 Republican county commissioner candidate is loaded. He's got a permit to carry concealed weapons. And so does his wife. Big-time Second Amendment people, they are.
He brought it up while talking Thursday on how Guilford County could work better with other municipalities, and its citizens.
"I’d like to open that up to public use," he said.
Later that day we bumped into his opponent, Board of Commissioners Chairman Kirk Perkins and at large Commissioner Paul Gibson, who was sitting next to Souther earlier at the forum.
"I was looking down to see if there was something there," Gibson said, joking, referring to maybe sighting an ankle holster.
"I'm just glad that I was at the other end of the table," Perkins said.
Now, politics around here can get fiery, but not gun-fiery. That's the stuff of rogue states, juntas and banana republics. And Guilford County politicians are a far more refined bunch than that, right? Right?
