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Joe Schwartz ·
4 Nov 2009, 3:31 AM ·
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*Reporter’s note: Scroll to the bottom if you want the quickie results from Election Day (no suprises in Carrboro or Hillsborough. CHCCS followed the Indy endorsement. Chapel Hill Town Council went to Penny Rich, Ed Harrison, Laurin Easthom and Gene Pease). If you’d like to read a scene-setting piece from Chapel Hill Mayor-elect Mark Kleinschmidt’s victory party, then read on.
Councilman Mark Kleinschmidt celebrates his mayoral victory as his twin sister clutches his shoulder and his mom bursts into tears.
Supporters erupted. His mother burst into tears. His sister shouted. Mark Kleinschmidt just smiled contently, arms crossed but giving the kind of ear-to-ear grin you could feel across the room, satisfaction and disbelief merging together on his face. The campaign had just received word that rival Matt Czajkowski had made his concession speech at the Franklin Hotel.
The progressive bloc had won. They’d just escaped a new, moderate business-centered group gaining traction and council seats. Not so fast.
Word came back that one precint, Patterson, was yet to report. Kleinschmidt was up a scant 168 votes. The jubiliation turned to shocked concern. It was too close to call.
“I don’t want a Dewey defeats Truman headline,” Kleinschmidt warned reporters at his R&R Grill party. The pack of local politicos returned to the laptop, clicking refresh again and again.
Moments later, the candidate’s ever-buzzing cell phone went off once more. It was Mayor Kevin Foy calling to congratulate him.
Kleinschmidt cautioned him, but thanked him for his support. Then the results flashed on the TV screens. It was final — Kleinschmidt had won.
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Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Orange County, politics Amanda Ashley, Augustus Cho, Brian Voyce, Bryant Warren, Christine Lee, Ed Harrison, Frances Dancy, Gene Pease, Greg McElveen, Jacquelyn Gist, Jim Merritt, Joe Green, Jon Dehart, Kevin Foy, Kevin Wolff, Laurin Easthom, Mark Chilton, Mark Kleinschmidt, MaryAnne Gucciardi, Matt Czajkowski, Matt Pohlman, Mike Gering, Penny Rich, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Sharon Cook, Shell Brownstein, Susana Dancy, Tim Peck, Tom Stevens, Will Raymond
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 ·
16 Jul 2009, 11:53 AM ·
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There are 24 hours left until the deadline for candidates to file for the 2009 election, so expect a last-minute trickle of additional names on the ballots.
Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton has a challenger, Amanda Ashley, who, according to her MySpace page, is a Wiccan feminist graphic artist. She works at Phydeaux.
Three incumbents have filed for Chapel Hill Town Council: Ed Harrison, who has served on Council since 2001 and has the distinction of living in the part of Chapel Hill that is in Durham County (don’t make us explain the strange annexations). In addition, Laurin Easthom, who was first elected to Council in 2005, filed, as did Jim Merritt, who was appointed to fill Bill Thorpe’s seat after Thorpe died last year.
Carrboro, Chapel Hill, politics Amanda Ashley, Ed Harrison, elections, Jim Merritt, Laurin Easthom, Mark Chilton
Lisa Sorg ·
9 Jul 2009, 11:48 AM ·
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Is that the sound of a cash register? First term Chapel Hill Town Councilman Matt Czajkowski has filed for mayor of Chapel Hill; like fellow mayoral candidate Augustus Cho, he has not opted to participate in the voter-owned election program, allowing them to raise large sums for their campaigns.
Czajkowski loaned himself more than $17,000 for his 2007 town council campaign.
Town Councilman Mark Kleinschmidt is also expected to run, but has yet to file.
Update at 5 p.m.: Matt Pohlman has filed for Chapel Hill Town Council. He has not enrolled in the voter-owned election program. Mark Chilton has filed for Carrboro mayor
In other Orange County filings, Gary Wallach and MaryAnne Gucciardi are running for Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board.
In Durham, the Ward 2 race got more interesting as a third candidate, Sylvester Williams, a minister, is running against incumbent Howard Clement III and Libertarian Matt Drew.
Update at 5 p.m.: Incumbent Cora Cole-McFadden has filed for Durham City Council in Ward I.
And in the No Big Surprise department, incumbent Mayor Bill Bell is running for a fifth term, effectively dousing Mike Woodard’s mayoral aspirations this year. Woodard is running for re-election to City Council.
In Wake County, candidate filings for District 7 are popping up like mushrooms after a rain: Deborah Prickett and Jerry Ballan are running against Karen Simon.
Meanwhile Rodger Koopman is running for re-election in District B and Anthony Integlia is the sole person seeking the District C seat.
Update at 5 p.m.: Chris Augustine has filed for Wake School Board District 2, bringing the candidate total in that race to four. In Cary, Jennifer Robinson will face Cynthia Sinkez in District A.
In Raleigh, incumbent Mayor Charles Meeker filed for re-election; he’ll face Mark Enloe, who also filed today. Nancy MacFarlane is running for another term in Council District A; currently, the only district without a candidate is District E.
Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, Wake County, politics Anthony Integlia, Bill Bell, Charles Meeker, Chris Augustine, Cora Cole-McFadden, Deborah Prickett, elections, Gary Wallach, Jennifer Robinson, Jerry Ballan, Mark Chilton, Mark Enloe, MaryAnne Gucciardi, Matt Czajkowski, Matt Pohlman, Nancy MacFarlane, Rodger Koopman, Sylvester Williams
Sam Wardle ·
5 Mar 2009, 3:36 PM ·
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“You are out of order,” the mayor said, his voice rising in frustration. Across the room, the defiant woman snorted in disgust.
“I am understanding I am out of order, but so are you!” she shouted back.
The woman, standing erect and imperial, turned to the small, stunned crowd of attorneys, city employees, reporters and citizens assembled for the evening meeting. She shouted that they’d been lied to, and then, after a subsequent exchange with the mayor, his honor ejected her from Town Hall.
The scene could well be the opening to John Grisham’s latest legal potboiler. But the setting is not in the pages of a thriller or in a courtroom of a prime time drama . The mayor is Mark Chilton; the location, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen’s March 3 public hearing. And the woman is Orange County landowner Marilyn Kille.
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Carrboro, news, politics Add new tag, Chapel Hill Herald, Dan Way, Marilyn Kille, Mark Chilton
Lisa Sorg ·
21 Oct 2008, 12:57 PM ·
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Holy Kucinich, Batman! Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton is supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory, according to the McCrory campaign, which quotes Chilton as saying:
“I’ve never voted for a Republican before, but I am voting for Pat McCrory because I trust him to clean up state government and to restore integrity to our state transportation system. Pat will end political fundraising by DOT Board members and use careful planning to allocate North Carolina’s transportation resources.”
Admittedly, Bev Perdue is no picnic, but Michael Munger would be a better second option.
It is unclear how Chilton is reconciling McCrory’s hardline stance against illegal immigrants considering Carrboro is known for its support for Latinos, documented and otherwise; the town has refused to drink the 287(g) Kool-Aid, a federal program that provides funds and training to local cops to function as de facto border agents.
Carrboro, North Carolina, politics Bev Perdue, Carrboro, illegal immigration, Mark Chilton, Michael Munger, Pat McCrory
