On August 8, 2011, NCTC's law firm finally sent Ken Arterbury three documents they felt were misleading or untrue.
A
Letter to the Editor from Stephen Harlow. While Dr. Hadlock didn't identify any discrepancies, we agree the statement
about no difference between in-county and out-of-county tuition was wrong. There remains a difference. We did
not see this letter before it appeared in the newspaper.
There was also an anonymous letter that
Dr. Hadlock at the last board meeting said he objected to it because it stated "HADLOCK AND OBAMA...TWO PEAS FROM THE
SAME POD". Note: We at Cooke Citizens had not seen this letter before it was provided to us by the college. We
do not support anonymous political letters consistent with Texas Law. We are only providing it here as information as
to what Dr. Hadlock was referring to as misleading and untrue.
Finally, the attorney provided
a copy of the front page bar chart ad run by Steve Gaylord the day before the election showing the true cost per credit hour
including taxes per credit hour. I would note that Steve Gaylord has presented this analysis since 2004. In 2008,
he ran an ad offering $500 to anyone that could prove he was wrong or that he had knowingly written anything misleading about
the college. TO date, no one has taken Steve Gaylord up on that offer.
Since no other documents,
ads or e-mails circulated before the election were provided by the college, we presume that Dr. Hadlock did not find the other
ads, Letters to the Editor, and e-mails misleading or otherwise didn't see them.
