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Earnhardt's hometown removes his honor flags
www.thatsracin.com ^ | 7/24/08 | David Poole

Posted on 07/25/2008 12:38:47 PM PDT by personalaccts

Earnhardt's hometown removes his honor flags From Charlotte Observer, wire reports Friday, Jul. 25, 2008 KANNAPOLIS - The late Dale Earnhardt's hometown is taking down banners honoring the NASCAR great, at the request of a billionaire developer who is bringing a client to town Saturday.

The Salisbury Post also reported on Friday that the developer's company doesn't want the "Dale Trail" banners going up again.

According to e-mails obtained by the Salisbury newspaper, California billionaire David Murdock is coming to Kannapolis on Saturday with an important guest and wants to put the "best face on the city."

Murdock's company, Castle & Cooke, owns the North Carolina Research Center, a science research park being developed in Kannapolis at the site of the old Cannon Mills.

City Manager Mike Legg wrote in a July 18 memo to the city council that the "Dale Trail" banners would be permanetly removed. Earnhardt was killed in 2001, on the last lap of the Daytona 500.

The Salisbury Post says that in the past week, e-mails have been exchanged among Kannapolis city officials, Castle and Cooke, and the Cabarrus Convention and Visitors Bureau about removing the banners - and whether the NASCAR theme fits with efforts by some business and civic leaders to bill Kannapolis as the "Home to Science."

There are no indications as to the identity of Saturday's guest, but the Salisbury newspaper said there is speculation that it might be Oprah Winfrey. Murdock announced earlier this year that he is working on a joint project with Winfrey, an entertainment billionaire.

In the July 18 memo, Legg told council members and others that the banners would be taken down. He wrote that the Cabarrus Convention and Visitors Bureau agrees with the plan but wants to put up other flags or markers in the future.

"There may be a conflict as to what happens later," Legg wrote, according to the Salisbury newspaper. "There are many (including everybody at Castle & Cooke) that do not want to see anything 'Dale-related' going back up."

Not everyone appears so readily willing to remove the motorsports theme in Kannapolis, though.

The Salisbury Post said DeSales Wagster, president of the Cabarrus County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said Thursday that she thinks motorsports and high-tech research can co-exist.

"We are extremely proud of motorsports and what it has brought, as we transition into one of the largest bio-tech areas," she said. "They are very compatible. there is truly room for both."


TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: earnhardt; nascar; oprah
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To: personalaccts

Let’s get this spread to all of NASCAR and his hometown!!!!They ought to have a redneck parade for his highness and Jeff Foxworthy as the Master of Ceremonies!!!
GET-R-DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


21 posted on 07/25/2008 12:53:23 PM PDT by GregB (The choice is simple good vs evil!!!!!!!)
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To: personalaccts

Hope the town gives those two a welcoming they never forget.


22 posted on 07/25/2008 12:54:17 PM PDT by Vision (The light of the body is the eye, if your eye is true all your body will be full of light. Matt 6:22)
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To: mnehrling

JR!


23 posted on 07/25/2008 12:54:18 PM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: xDGx
Redneck tanktop... Photobucket
24 posted on 07/25/2008 12:55:00 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: GregB

Get the story on the NASCAR web sites.


25 posted on 07/25/2008 12:55:03 PM PDT by Vision (The light of the body is the eye, if your eye is true all your body will be full of light. Matt 6:22)
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To: personalaccts
get the mullets, jean shorts, and black t-shirts ready!

boogedy, boogedy, boogedy, let's go racin'!!!

26 posted on 07/25/2008 12:55:13 PM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: personalaccts

Perhaps a mass Kannapolis mooning would show the billionaire and client their disgust with political correctness and elitism.


27 posted on 07/25/2008 12:58:02 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: personalaccts

I thought Ted Turner lived in Georgia?


28 posted on 07/25/2008 1:00:05 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: NormsRevenge

Ping...didn’t know if you wanted to ping the NASCAR thread fans, or not...


29 posted on 07/25/2008 1:02:30 PM PDT by Texas2step (<><)
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To: personalaccts

If I owned a biz there I’d hang the biggest gosh danged number three I could make and I ain’t even an Intimidator fan.


30 posted on 07/25/2008 1:02:42 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
JUST to embarrass the billionaire now...

You dun red my mind before I thunk it. See post #30.

31 posted on 07/25/2008 1:03:53 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: SouthTexas; glock rocks; tubebender

You guys see this?


32 posted on 07/25/2008 1:05:22 PM PDT by afnamvet
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To: personalaccts
Maybe he or she thinks that NASCAR fans are bitter and clinging.

If he or she is very lucky, she/he won't find out just how bitter, and what they are clinging.

33 posted on 07/25/2008 1:05:25 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: personalaccts
Every home and business should proudly display at least one of these.


34 posted on 07/25/2008 1:06:46 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: personalaccts
...the developer's company doesn't want the "Dale Trail" banners going up again...

Probably a dam Yankee too. Somebich better stay north of the Mason-Dixon line unless you want another Civil War.

35 posted on 07/25/2008 1:11:59 PM PDT by McGruff ( 'the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee' - Barack Obama)
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To: mnehrling
..or the douche Tony Stewart..

You didn't really say that did you?

36 posted on 07/25/2008 1:14:08 PM PDT by McGruff ( 'the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee' - Barack Obama)
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To: personalaccts
I hope when this billionaire brings his billionaire client to town on Saturday every upstanding resident puts a wringer washing machine on the front porch, waters the dead petunias growin' in the tire on the front gravel and moves the outhouse into the driveway.

A banner should be hung over Main Street, "Welcome to Spatula City".

Leni

37 posted on 07/25/2008 1:15:46 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home or vote Barr for Obamination, more Taxation, Regulation, Litigation and Ginzburgization)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

There’s just not much you can’t fix with a ‘69 Charger, a bow and some dynamite.


38 posted on 07/25/2008 1:19:38 PM PDT by kenth (Just think, .000001783% of the population is screwing it all up for the rest of us.)
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To: personalaccts

That sombich sad what?

39 posted on 07/25/2008 1:20:30 PM PDT by McGruff ( 'the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee' - Barack Obama)
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To: Texas2step

I linked it up on the race thread. pretty questionable move on the part of the developer. nascar is a science too.

There are Trucks tonite, Nationwide Sat and the Brickyard 400 aka the Zero Coke 400 aka .. Sunday


40 posted on 07/25/2008 1:42:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE toll-free tip hotline 1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRget!!!)
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