NC Gov 2008

On Saturday, March 22,2008 the Jones County Voter League will be hosting a candidate forum from 12.00 noon until 3.00 PM at the Jones County Civic Center, Hwy 58 between Pollocksville and Trenton.
A free lunch will be served. [ BBQ, BBQ turkey, fried fish]
Come and have a chance to meet and listen to many statewide candidates.

Attending

Congressman Butterfield
Sec. of State Elaine Marshall
Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr.June Atkinson
Rep. Van Braxton
Rep. Russel Tucker
Mr. Bob Eaves, Lt. Gov Bev Purdue's husband, speaking on her behalf.
Jim Neal, candidate for US Senate
Beth Wood, candidate for auditor
Robin Anderson, candidate for labor commissioner
Wayne Goodwin, candidate for insurance commissioner
Ronnie Ansley, candidate for ag. commissioner

I want to tell you about the great job Richard is doing for every single American: he's going up to Wall Street to fight for corporate accountability, fighting for tougher environmental standards and against corporate greed. Treasurer Moore is working with Democrats like Gov. Eliot Spitzer to bring a sense of morality back to the corporate world, and he's using North Carolina's leverage as a stockholder with a $70 billion dollar portfolio to work for these changes.

One great example is in Richard's fight against absurd CEO pay for Exxon Mobil's former executive, Lee Raymond:

I promised I'd give an update on the two Moore for Governor events this week, and after Thursday's vote in Congress, I'd rather write about something that won't make us angrier. Unfortunately, both of my digital cameras broke, so I don't have any photos from the surprisingly well-attended Charlotte event, but luckily the campaign has a flickr account with photos from Tuesday's kickoff event, and I've got the story (If you want more on the Treasurer's message, try my earlier blog post).

It's my birthday today, so please let me get away with a diary that I'm bound to update later. I was at Richard Moore's campaign kickoff in Oxford, NC yesterday, where right next to trays of excellent hush puppies supporters found an example of excellent framing:

Reform to Invest

The Democratic Primary for North Carolina Governor, which seems like it's been running at full steam for ... well, forever, becomes official today as Richard Moore announces his campaign. In addition to opening the campaign website this morning, the campaign will hold the first of many kickoff events tonight. There will be barbecue in Oxford at 5 p.m. ... and yes, I'm supporting Richard's campaign for NC's highest office.

In recent days Nathan Tabor of The Conservative Voice has been spamming North Carolina blogs on behalf of Fred Smith State Senator and Gubernatorial Candidate. Tabor and Smith became enamored of each other last fall as Tabor describes in an effusive description that also belabors his own self-importance as a “blogger”. I caught up with this troll when he posted the entire text of a letter by Fred Smith “Time For Leadership on NC Budget” at exileonjonesstreet as a comment to an unrelated post with the plaintive cry:

Isn’t anyone in the NC blogosphere going to cover this subect? Am I the only one in NC to receive this in my e-mail?

No Nate. You are the only one sending this in your email.