THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Chuck Thompson | The Sunday Column OPINION — There’s only so many “types” of people in politics. When I look at a local elected official or candidate I always see them as a local version of someone else in history. I’ll look at one person and say well there’s the Bill Clinton or the Ronald Reagan, The Julius Caesar or the John Adams of Cleveland County. Oh, look, there’s the Andrew Jackson of the school board; there’s the Kennedy, Carter, Taft, Hoover or the Honorius (an i