Does owning a business disqualify one from running for office here?

Does

owning a business disqualify one from running for office

here?

I can see as I have read and reread

the articles, ads and editorials in the Fayette papers

during this election period one might reach the

conclusion I have reached. That conclusion being that a

business person that owns and operates any number of

businesses in the city of Fayetteville, even though they

live here, work here and call Fayetteville home, would be

excluded from holding public office.

It concerns

me, not taking either of the candidates side in the city

council runoff, that the one that works outside the city

can say that the one that works in the city would have a

conflict of interest because he has a relationship with

many people, personal and business, in the city.

Do we not

use lawyers to help make law and is the Surgeon General

not a doctor. Again not to take sides, but where is the

line drawn. Can good ethical people, regardless of

occupation, not serve our community.

Linda

Clark

Fayette

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