Showing posts tagged “endorsements”
Joe Schwartz ·
17 Oct 2009, 10:12 PM ·
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The Thorpe-Anderson Breakfast Club, a group of progressive NAACP supporters and members, is backing incumbents in races for Chapel Hill Town Council, Carrboro mayor and Board of Aldermen and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board. The group’s endorsements, always sought after by the candidates, were released today. They are as follows:
Chapel Hill Mayor - Mark Kleinschmidt
Chapel Hill Town Council - Lauren Easthom, Ed Harrison, Jim Merritt and Will Raymond
Carrboro Mayor - Mark Chilton
Carrboro Board of Aldermen - Randee Haven-O’Donnell, Jacquelyn Gist and Sammy Slade
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board - Greg McElveen, Michelle Brownstein and Joe Green
The breakfast club was formed in the 1970s by Hank Anderson, the South’s first black parks and recreation director. The late Bill Thorpe, a former councilmen who passed away while in office in 2008, served as the group’s leader after Anderson died. The group fights for racial justice and lobbied to town to rename Airport Road as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
This is the first endorsement this season for Raymond. All the other Chapel Hill and Carrboro municipal candidates earned support from the Sierra Club and the Indy. The three school board hopefuls also earned the Indy’s support.
Early voting began Thursday. Election day is Nov. 3. Visit our elections page to read candidate questionnaires, get links to campaign pages and learn more about the candidates.
Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, politics Carrboro, Chapel Hill, CHCCS, Ed Harrison, endorsements, Greg McElveen, Jacquelyn Gist, Jim Merritt, Joe Green, Laurin Easthom, Mark Chilton, Mark Kleinschmidt, Michelle Brownstein, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Thorpe-Anderson Breakfast Club, Will Raymond
Joe Schwartz ·
8 Oct 2009, 11:29 AM ·
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The Sierra Club announced its endorsements today in municipal races in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough. The following candidates gained their support:
- In Chapel Hill: Mark Kleinschmidt for mayor and Laurin Easthom, Ed Harrision, Jim Merritt and Penny Rich for town council.
- In Carrboro: Mark Chilton for mayor and Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O’Donnell and Sammy Slade for board of aldermen.
- In Hillsborough: Tom Stevens for mayor and Mike Gering and Frances Dancy for town board.
Thus the group is backing all incumbents with Penny Rich gaining support for the open seat that Kleinschmidt will leave and Sammy Slade for John Herrera’s old post.
You can read the group’s rationale for each race by clicking on the above links. The Indy’s endorsements hit stands this Wednesday.
Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, politics Ed Harrison, endorsements, Frances Dancy, Jacquelyn Gist, Laurin Easthom, Mark Chilton, Mark Kleinschmidt, Mike Gering, Penny Rich, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Sierra Club, Tom Stevens
Lisa Sorg ·
20 Oct 2008, 3:22 PM ·
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The Indy has endorsed in the Council of State races (including: governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, auditor, agriculture commissioner, treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, insurance commissioner, secretary of state and labor commissioner).
North Carolina, politics Beth Wood, Bev Perdue, endorsements, Janet Cowell, June St. Clair Atkinson, Mary Fant Donnan, Ronnie Ansley, Roy Cooper, Walter Dalton, Wayne Goodwin
Lisa Sorg ·
20 Oct 2008, 1:42 PM ·
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The Indy has posted its endorsements for U.S. Senate and U.S. House. Tomorrow we will issue our legislative and Council of State endorsements. The Oct. 22 print edition will contain all the endorsements, including those already posted online.
North Carolina, national, politics BJ Lawson, Bob Etheridge, Brad Miller, David Price, Elizabeth Dole, endorsements, Kay Hagan, U.S. House, U.S. Senate
Lisa Sorg ·
17 Oct 2008, 9:37 AM ·
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Suzanne Reynolds is our choice for N.C. Supreme Court; read our endorsement to find out why.
The Indy also issues its endorsements for the state appellate court.
Also to be announced today: Soil and Water District Supervisors for Durham and Wake counties.
Coming on Monday: congressional and state legislative races
North Carolina, politics Cheri Beasley, endorsements, Jim Wynn, John Arrowood, Kristin Ruth, Linda Stephens, Suzanne Reynolds
Matt Saldaña ·
16 Oct 2008, 2:44 PM ·
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Our endorsements for Wake County District 10 and Orange-Chatham District 15B judges have been posted to Indyweek.com.
Recommendations for statewide judges, and soil and water district supervisors, will be published tomorrow. For our full endorsements schedule, click here.
Orange County, Wake County 2008 election, Chatham County, endorsements
Fiona Morgan ·
15 Oct 2008, 11:12 AM ·
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The first of our endorsements has just been posted to Indyweek.com.
See this fall’s full endorsement schedule here.
Durham 2008 election, endorsements, meals tax
Fiona Morgan ·
14 Oct 2008, 11:24 AM ·
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Online readers were understandably perturbed today when a link to a prominent Charlotte citizen’s endorsement of Barack Obama suddenly stopped working — and took them to another Charlotte citizen’s endorsement of John McCain.
As of 11:15 a.m., the link problem had been fixed, though comments and accompanying art were still mixed up.
On Oct. 6, the Charlotte Observer had published a column by former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl Jr. in which he said Obama is “whom we need now” to straighten out the country’s financial problems.
But this morning, Oct. 14, the link to McColl’s column led to another by Charlottean Mark Erwin, a former ambassador under President Clinton, titled “Why John McCain would make the best president.”
The Indy called David Enna, site manager for the CharlotteObserver.com, who said the link switch was a technical error. “There was no conspiracy,” Enna said. “It has to do with the slugging of the stories.”
A “slug” is newspaper jargon for a short name given to stories as they move through production. Enna said editorial page editors gave the same slug to both stories, which caused the second story to override the first. He said the problem has happened before. “It’s a really, really dumb thing. I’ve told them over and over not to do it,” he said.
media, national, politics 2008 election, Barack Obama, Charlotte Observer, endorsements, Hugh McColl, John McCain, Mark Erwin
Fiona Morgan ·
29 Sep 2008, 10:37 AM ·
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The Durham People’s Alliance, a progressive grassroots citizens’ group, announced last week that its political action committee voted to support a ballot referendum to impose a 1 percent sales-tax surcharge on restaurant meals in the city order to fund a minor league baseball museum and other cultural amenities.
“[M]embers of the organization engaged in a spirited discussion over the wisdom and desirability of the proposed one percent prepared meals tax,” the release said. “During the discussion, PA members sharpened their understanding of the balance between the impact of the tax on ordinary citizens and the local governments’ need for a reliable funding source in addition to the property tax. After a well-informed and spirited debate, the People’s Alliance decided to lend its support to the tax referendum.”
Bull City Rising has this analysis.
Meanwhile, another Durham institution has announced opposition. In an interview (reg. required) with The Herald-Sun, Elmo’s Diner manager Cammie Brantley sounded convinced by the position statement of the N.C. Restaurant and Lodging Association, which opposes the tax because of the rising economic hardships on restaurants and their customers.
“It’s not necessarily a bad thing for another time,” Brantley told the paper. “Our position is it’s not a great thing for right now.”
Durham, Durham County, food endorsements, meals tax, People's Alliance
