Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I recently attended a candidate forum held by the NAACP at Cobbs Creek and obviously questions about the monument came up. The candidates from Citizens for the Common Good emphatically stated that the will of the voters had to be honored and that the monument should be left as it is. The other side was not so clear and one candidate, Randy Dobson, suggested that the people could not be trusted and extra measures were needed to protect the people from themselves.

Recent actions by our board of supervisors with new rules to restrict speakers at their meetings to name one, call into question their commitment to our Constitution and the Rule of Law. If you look more closely at the monument and their actions which ignore the near 80 percent calling for it to be left alone you have to conclude more is at play. In February 2020, a mass meeting of the Mathews County Republican Committee was held to elect a new chairman. The candidates were longtime member Leigh ...