The first campaign speech by Chris Jones the prospective politician was delivered at a county GOP gathering. Aside from one throwaway reference to Boiling Springs as the kind of place we don’t want to turn into, his four-and-a-half-minute speech made no mention of anything or anyone locally specific. It’s as if he was reading a boiler-plate speech that could be written for a candidate for any government post in any Polk county in the country, of which there are several, and not someone who wanted to be one of our Polk County commissioners.
That’s not usually the way you introduce yourself to a local crowd, especially if you’ve only been living here for five years and need to convince voters that you understand what their home is all about. But it turns out that Chris chooses his words very carefully — not too surprising, I suppose, for a V.P of a company that installs security systems — and that first speech was no exception.
As you’ll find out by listening to our talk.