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10/12/2004 |
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League of Women Voters Forum If you missed it live tonight, you can see the re-runs of the forum held for contested county commissioner seats. Next showing is Oct 16 - 9:00am. Rest of schedule is here. Check out my candidate response to the League as well. If I remember correctly, I think we each got in about 5 minutes of talking out of the 30 minute session for District 4 and 7. Watching the at-large candidates go before us here are the quotes I picked up on: (The words in italics are my emphasis.) On improving schools: "...we need to bring in some of the teachers and even some of the citizenry to the process." -- Roger Cotten, established county bureaucrat. On Econ Development: "...right now, only larger companies are entitled to incentives." -- Paul Gibson, solid Democrat worldview guy. "You have to have incentives." -- Trudy Wade pretending to be a low tax, small government Republican. "Regionalism is the right answer today." -- Roger Cotten, as noted above. I think I did well enough during my chance to address the voters. Out of 9 candidates, while others bragged on their support of the concept of "regionalism", I (anti-FTAA guy) was the only one to point out that "regionalism" as it is now being devised means more unelected and unaccountable boards of which the average citizen has no recourse against. And, that left unchecked, their are two (really one) end results: 1) Superfluous county boards of commissioners. 2) Loss of our representative government. 11:58:35 PM
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UN Sanctioned Election Monitors - Update As a solid Bush state, I don't expect we will see any of these international monitors hanging around the voting booths of North Carolina, but just in case here is the letter sent on the matter to our Executive Director of the State Board of Elections and his response. 11:43:01 PM
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