Lift the Wakefield Speaker Ban!

Governor Jim Gilmore informs me today that he was never allowed to speak at the Shad Planking as a candidate, though Don Beyer was invited. I never knew this and find it personally offensive. The darkest day in North Carolina’s political history, to my way of thinking, was the day the legislature there passed the infamous ‘Speaker Ban’ law. When we reach a point in this country where we are afraid of words, of views, of opinions, where we don’t feel competent to let them compete in the unfettered marketplace of public expression, we are done for as a people. Let this be out cry between now and April 20: Lift the Wakefield Speaker Ban!