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As you probably know by now, Laura Nicholson has requested a runoff against current School Board Chair Anne Medenblik. The special runoff election will be held on June 22nd - the same day as the U.S. Senatorial showdown between Democrats Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham.
Under the rules for the non-partisan school board race, a candidate may request a runoff if one or more top vote getters fails to win more votes than the total number of votes cast divided by the number of candidates running.
In the school board race, the threshold was 2,636 votes. Medenblik, who finished fourth in the race for four seats, won 2,565 votes; Nicholson won 2,500 votes
- N&O: Runoff ahead in Orange County, 5/13/10
According to this morning's Herald-Sun, the Orange County "Board of Commissioners is one of the first government bodies in the nation to seek to define social justice and make it a backdrop for its decisions." The Human Relations Advisory Board presented a draft of their document to the BoCC on May 13. The full document is available at: http://www.co.orange.nc.us/OCCLERKS/1005131.pdf
For those who don't have time to read the full document, here's the bare bones.
In working to seek social justice, Orange County shall perform government duties including policy-making and budgeting with the express objectives of:
1. Striving for the elimination of oppression and inequity by creating an environment of equal opportunity in which no groups are targeted for harassment, exclusion, intimidation or violence.
I tried to post this under Events but I'm not sure it took and don't want anyone to miss the chance to "reuse".
[Editor's note: I removed the duplicate content. You can see the calendar item at the link below.]
A blog entry on the NC senate race may be a bit outside the scope for the OP but I have been so encouraged by the recent polling data showing both Marshall and Cunningham in statistical ties with Burr and with low approval rating for Burr thatI was inspired to write this entry. The title is just vision for a newspaper headline on an enjoyable Wednesday morning next November.
I personally have been supporting Elain Marshall since the day she announced and think she will be a great senator for NC. I recently recieved an e-mail from her campaign lamenting that Cal Cunningham did not drop out. I think there may be an upside from the run off in that it will generate extra local and national press coverage. It reminds me a bit of the discussion of the Clinton-Obama primary contest. Many people were calling for Clinton to drop out so that Obama could focus on November. However, the primary contest generated a lot of interest and in the end, Obama won.
However wins the run-off next month I hope you will all join me in GOTV efforts next fall. We have a really strong change to put NC firmly in the blue with to democratic senators.
The key to this run off is to know your candidate. I am very surprised that none of this came out in the election….
Laura Nicholson – Has not paid their taxes (remember that almost 50% of taxes goes to education!)
Look it up yourself!
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