A Complex Profile, Gubernatorial Candidate Lloyd Jackson Beloved, Reviled in Home County
Charleston Daily Mail › April 30, 2004
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HAMLIN - To some here, Lloyd Jackson, Democratic candidate for governor, is a favorite son.
He's a former basketball player and valedictorian at Hamlin High School, a band dad and faithful churchgoer. He's a former state senator, the owner of a prosperous business and a customer known to stop in at lunchtime and crumble corn bread into pinto bean soup at M&R Restaurant.See the full content of this document
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A Complex Profile, Gubernatorial Candidate Lloyd Jackson Beloved, Reviled in Home County
To others, he's a deeply polarizing figure in the long, bitter struggle over Lincoln County school consolidation. His role in shutting down and combining the small, community schools that dot the landscape angers anti-consolidation forces.
Lloyd Jackson, local boy made good.Lloyd Jackson, reviled politician.In Hamlin, his hometown of 1,119 souls, both descriptions are accurate.* n nIn Hamlin, there's plenty of evidence of Jack...See the full content of this document
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