2. Senior citizens. Many of

you called and personally asked me if or why I intended to eliminate the

school tax exemption for those 65 years of age or older. Some people attempted

to deceive you, but you checked it out and found the facts. Seniors have

nothing to be worried about. The commissioners have never talked about

eliminating tax exemptions for seniors, and you should know that no one

could do that to you without a referendum. Causing fear in our senior

citizens has been a tactic in national politics many times, but never

before in our community elections. Your failure to respond to this attempted

deception may prevent desperate politicians from sinking to this level

in the future.

3. "Push-poll" recipients.

Hundreds of you hung up and expressed outrage at this illegally conducted

"polling" which occurred several days prior to the election.

You refused to be conned by this consultant-driven tactic. Hopefully,

political aspirants have now learned that this type activity has no place

in Fayette County elections.

4. Citizens who received last-minute

messages from my opponent. My opponent stated he was "pro-life"

and implied I was not. Those of you who know me know I am and will always

be "pro-life." Many of you were outraged and felt it was a desperate

attempt to capture votes at the end, leaving me no time to respond to

this political trick. I agree with you.

5. Scores of supporters. Very

special thanks to all of you who have worked on this campaign or my previous

campaign. You worked hard, you always had faith in me and you lifted me

up when the rigors of campaigning might have brought me down. You are

a phenomenal, caring and courageous group of hard-working and fun-loving

folks who make it all worthwhile.

This campaign saw the introduction

of the nasty political activities normally associated with state and national

elections. It was indeed unfortunate. However, because Fayette citizens

were not influenced by these terrible tactics, we can hope that anyone

who has future political aspirations in Fayette County was watching and

will establish a standard for their campaign which is worthy of our community

where "quality is a lifestyle."

Thank you for renewing my contract

for four more years.

Greg Dunn, Chairman

Fayette County Board of

Commissioners