Running With Randall
October 10, 2011 - by
Dr. Randall Williams’ brief political career is liable to end in today’s election. Which I regret, because he could give Raleigh politics a refreshing – and recurring – regimen of: “What’s with that?”
Like his haircut. (Click here.) What’s with that?
Then there’s the odd, full-page ad in The N&O today. What’s with that?
You missed it? Too bad, because I couldn’t find it on his website.
Let me try to do it justice. It’s several hundred words long – filling an entire page along with a photo of Williams just before a pre-dawn run around downtown Raleigh.
The run is a literary device, if you will, for Dr. Williams’ musings about the City of Raleigh, in which he praises Mayor Meeker, Thomas Crowder (odd choices for a Republican), both of his opponents (“Nancy” and “Billie”), William Christmas, Dorothea Dix, community leaders, overseas volunteers, oak trees, educators, a railroad switchman, Millbrook High athletic supporters, athletic directors, Josephus Daniels, Steve Jobs, his (Dr. Williams’, that is) Latin teacher, firefighters and police officers.
Plus, he quotes Pericles, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King.
You don’t get a lot of this in politics nowadays.
If he falls short today, we must find some public office for Dr. Williams. The good doctor would inject politics with a healthy dose of quirkiness.
Running With Randall
October 10, 2011/
Dr. Randall Williams’ brief political career is liable to end in today’s election. Which I regret, because he could give Raleigh politics a refreshing – and recurring – regimen of: “What’s with that?”
Like his haircut. (Click here.) What’s with that?
Then there’s the odd, full-page ad in The N&O today. What’s with that?
You missed it? Too bad, because I couldn’t find it on his website.
Let me try to do it justice. It’s several hundred words long – filling an entire page along with a photo of Williams just before a pre-dawn run around downtown Raleigh.
The run is a literary device, if you will, for Dr. Williams’ musings about the City of Raleigh, in which he praises Mayor Meeker, Thomas Crowder (odd choices for a Republican), both of his opponents (“Nancy” and “Billie”), William Christmas, Dorothea Dix, community leaders, overseas volunteers, oak trees, educators, a railroad switchman, Millbrook High athletic supporters, athletic directors, Josephus Daniels, Steve Jobs, his (Dr. Williams’, that is) Latin teacher, firefighters and police officers.
Plus, he quotes Pericles, Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King.
You don’t get a lot of this in politics nowadays.
If he falls short today, we must find some public office for Dr. Williams. The good doctor would inject politics with a healthy dose of quirkiness.