Donnan's letters to the editor

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 19, 2008 - 7:42am.
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Mary Fant DonnanMary Fant Donnan is no stranger to newspapers.

In recent years, the candidate for the Democratic nomination for labor commissioner had two letters to the editor published in the Winston-Salem Journal, her hometown newspaper.

(In Dome's experience, that means she's probably written a few more that didn't make the cut.) 

The first letter ran on Oct. 29, 2002. It praised her neighbor Becky Johnson, then running for state House District 93. 

"She would work tirelessly to use the best of her experience to give Winston-Salem a statewide presence," she wrote. "She can work across party lines and represent the interests of Winston-Salem."

The second letter ran on Nov. 29, 2006. It questioned the need for a state prison in Grayson County, Va., where Donnan grew up.

"The stretch where the new prison is proposed, by Molly Osborne Shoals, is one of the most beautiful," she wrote. "Locating a prison there does not make sense."

Both letters show Donnan trumpeting a lost cause. Johnson lost to Republican Rep. Bill McGee by nearly a 2-1 margin, while construction went ahead on the state prison in Grayson County.

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Re: Donnan's letters to the editor

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 19, 2008 - 11:21am.

No dig on letter writers intended, though I think these days you're better off writing comments like this or starting your own blog.

— RTB

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Re: Donnan's letters to the editor

Submitted by bellaparola on June 19, 2008 - 11:14am.

I appreciate the due diligence - but as I said, this info appears to be totally irrelevant to the campaign or the position, and that makes it far worse than boring. Of course, you said that word, which I neither used nor implied.

And the bit about frequent letter-writers was not lost on this frequent comment-poster who long ago gave up writing letters to be sliced, diced and discarded by newspaper staff. It's always nice to know where we stand in the esteem of the fourth estate.

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Re: Donnan's letters to the editor

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 19, 2008 - 10:45am.

Well, the labor commissioner's race is next Tuesday and I'm doing my due diligence on it. Sorry to bore you.

— RTB 

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Re: Donnan's letters to the editor

Submitted by bellaparola on June 19, 2008 - 10:37am.

Good lord, who cares? I see no relevance to her campaign or the job of labor commissioner in either of these letters, and sense a certain snarkiness in the comment about Dome's experience with multiple-letter submitters. Surely there's something more exciting, like the Randy Parton Theatre suit I heard about on WRAL this morning, to write about?

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