primary

This last week and a half has been crazy. Trying to move forward but unsure how to proceed. Less than 24 hours before the North Carolina 5th District Democratic Convention and victory is awaiting a handful of provisional ballots from Forsyth County ...

Does Edwards endorsement of Obama move NC into the Swing State category?

Patrick McHenry, dissuaded with the fact that he can't come up with anything to beat back recent photos made public by Mike Rogers/Brandon Greeson, has now taken his time to begin inventing letters and insinuating that Cass Ballenger, his predecessor, is senile (though he voted for McHenry).

The story starts when suddenly, out of the blue, the former Congressman decided to endorse Lance Sigmon over Patrick McHenry. In the Republican camp, that's known as "suicide", partially because Patrick McHenry will sic every single person he can on you- and that's exactly what he did. Seeing the signed/dated letter, McHenry claimed it was fake (and insinuated it was forged)... until Ballenger heard about it and made a Phone Advertisement for Sigmon (Recording in the YouTube video). Wuh oh. So what does McHenry do? Falsify his own letters!

I am registered unaffiliated(UNA) and plan on voting in the primary sometime this week. As most of you probably know, unaffiliated voters get to choose what party’s primary they get to vote in.

Especially because of the Presidential race, I’d like to have my vote for Obama heard in the Democratic primary. On the other hand, our (Moore County) contests for state senate, state house, and county commission only have Republicans in the race.

Since my individual vote counts more in the smaller races, because those races stand to have a much greater impact on my local situation, and because the Republican primary winners will be the eventual office holders, I am leaning towards voting in the Republican primary.

I thought some of y'all would be interested in this revival of the Tarheel Tavern:

Richard Moore, Hampton Dellinger, Janet Cowell and more...the Independent Weekly has issued its endorsements for the 2008 primary online.

Note: I put this on facebook first as a note and figured I'd share it here. Let me know if you have any input on the races I didn't know much about. Note that some of these are Orange County specific.

Hillary Clinton asks North Carolinians to engage in a conversation in her first television commercial to air throughout the state.

We had fun at first organizational meeting. So now all we need is for you to bring a friend! We will be going over sample canvassing scripts and we will be talking about putting fliers up at some strategic locations. Also we have some yard signs for those that asked. llawsonguilford@gmail.com is my email.

Charlotte 4 Hillary will hold a brief meeting after the office opening party in Charlotte on Thursday. We will discuss voter registration activities, visibility strategies, debate parties, election return parties, telephone banks and other future events. Feel free to participate, and feel free to offer your thoughts and ideas for delivering Mecklenburg County and North Carolina to Hillary. I look forward to seeing everyone there.