Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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The complaint stems from a comment Womble made to Bill Foust, but which McDaniel thinks was directed at him.
In the complaint, sent by email to Carl Lambert, board chair, McDaniel wrote, “I was present, taking notes, and in unobstructed view and hearing of Mr. Womble, when he publicly reprimanded Mr. Bill Foust for his public remarks during the meeting. Mr. Womble said, ‘Mr. Foust, you were out of line in your statement to which you offended me and my board by calling them (BOE) liars.’ Mr. Foust denied using the word ‘liar,’ to which I hereby attest.”
Foust did not use the word liar at the Nov. 5 meeting. He used the word “fabrication” in reference to Davie High School’s capacity number of 1,320 which has been used for years, but which was recently changed. Foust suggested that anyone on the board who used the former number, knowing it was a fabrication, should resign.
Board members Rick Ellis and Carol Livengood spoke just before the meeting was adjourned, saying they resented the implication they had fabricated the number or used a fabricated number.
“The word ‘fabricated’ just appalls me,” Livengood said.
Foust asked if he could reply to what board members had said. Womble said, “No sir,” adding that Foust’s time to speak was over.
After the meeting, according to McDaniel, Womble made his way over to Foust.
“He came all the way from one side of the room to another,” McDaniel recalled, “not in a run, but not letting the grass grow under his feet either. He jumped on him [Foust] like stink on poo.”
McDaniel said he was standing directly over Foust’s left shoulder ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.