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Bad Billy's back in town

Just when we thought it was safe to praise Billy Yow, here he goes again.

Even if Yow was joking (and I remember the earlier exchange involving Linda Shaw and Bruce Davis) Yow's ill-considered joke was bad timing and poor judgment ... at the least.

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tonymo [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Okay, so Billy Yow is an idiot. Don't we get at least one, as you have at leqst three. I think what Billy siad was misunderstood. He really meant to say they they all "think and vote" alike!

tonymo said:

Okay, so Billy Yow is an idiot. Don't we get at least one, as you have at least three. I think what Billy said was misunderstood. He really meant to say that they all "think and vote" alike!

Paul said:

Coleman has no right to say anything about race. Remember she used race as a means to get land from project homestead. No one wants to talk about that in cluding Yow.

Samuel Spagnola said:

Did you feel the same way about Davis' comment at the time and did you write about it?

Anonymous said:

Sam, Davis didn't make the comment. Linda Shaw did after Davis flubbed her name.

To wit, according to our story:
"... In April, when Davis tried to remember Shaw's name in a meeting, Shaw said 'Linda' and joked, 'I know, we all look the same.' What Davis blamed on a 'senior moment' received robust laughter from most of the commissioners at the time."

David said:

Allen-You have a Letter to the Editor coming from me.

Myron Johnson said:

Hearing about these comments that Billy Yow made shouldn't surprise anyone that keep up with Guilford County politics. Some of you may remember when he had t-shirts printed with a young boy urinating on the letters, "NAACP". I don't consider him an idiot, just the people in his district that continue to support for him.

skeet club savage said:

Billy Yow uses comments such as this to diffuse racial tension not increase it. If people can laugh about it then they are on the road to getting over this tired horse@#%&. To understand Yow and Alston you have to remember they are in the entertainment business. They're like professional wrestlers trying to drum up interest by making inflammatory statements etc.

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