Board of Education candidate Rob Parsons

Rob Parsons is the most recent addition to the Polk County Board of Education, which has to get at least some of the credit for that success. In this first partisan school board election in history, he’s running as a Democrat, and his Saluda seat is the only one that’s being contested by a Republican.

His fellow Democrat member, Rick Covil of Tryon, is running unopposed, and independent Cindy Allen, who represents White Oak, and was on Polk Lore  earlier this year while she was trying to qualify for the ballot, is facing only a Democratic challenger, Syd Mutschler. Rob has been the pastor of Saluda’s United Methodist Church for the four years or so. We talked in his office in Saluda.