Nov. 6. By Dave Vieser. In dueling newsletters hours before Election Day, two Cornelius Town Board members have come out swinging. Commissioner Dave Gilroy has criticized three commission candidates about their campaigns, which got a lift—depending on if you like attack ads—from a builder who was active in the Huntersville elections two years ago. The builder took out full-age ads in The Citizen and The Herald attacking candidate Kurt Naas, one of the original leaders of the anti-toll movement. (Cornelius Today does not accept negative or attack advertisements.)
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Duke wasted no time, saying Gilroy “is an incredibly bright commissioner who has for years openly cried for two more like-minded ideologues in order to push his personal agenda for our Town. Make no mistake about it, Dave sees Kurt Naas as an ally that would support his agenda.”
About Naas, Gilroy said: “Our whole community has extraordinary respect and gratitude for Kurt given his amazing grass-roots opposition leadership and research, analysis, and insight around the I-77 tolls debacle.”
There are 11 candidates for Town Board in tomorrow’s non-partisan municipal election. Four are incumbents; 7 are newcomers, although one, William Rakatansky, served on the Town Board in the 1990s.
Voting for Cornelius Mayor and five commission seats, as well as one School Board member and the Charlotte Mecklenburg School Bond, begins at 6:30 am tomorrow. Cornelius Today hosted a community forum with the candidates in early October
There are four Election Day polling places in Cornelius: Community in Christ Lutheran Church, 7621 Norman Island Drive; Jetton Park, 19000 Jetton Road; Bethel Presbyterian Church, 19920 Bethel Church Road, and Cornelius Town Hall. Polls close at 7:30 pm.
To check and see which polling place is yours, contact the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections: (704) 336-2133.
