By the way, here's some free advice: If you have a limited number of
signs and/or volunteers, make sure you get your signs to one of Orange
County's three early voting sites!
I believe in the United States. That's my only phrase, because where else in this world will an organized country allow their citizens and non citizens to freely assemble and curse their own (or adopted country) to hell. I don't agree with their awful mentality but I respect and in a strange way admire their dissent. That is what makes us great, that is what sets us apart from China, Cuba and Iran. Because we encocurage our citizenry to be different.
I joined OP because I wanted to be a dissenting voice. Orange County NC is liberal, there is no doubt about that. But to be shunned and segregated becaused of my beliefs is no different than to be set aside as a second class citizen (By the way, I'm not Anglo-Saxon, this name is a pseudonym)
I'm upset that I have to live in a county that is so elitist that they feel their voice is the majority in NC. It is not!
Ruby, you can ban me, or censor me but I will always find a way to come back. It is your page, you do what you feel is right. Because I believe in your freedom.
I just got a robocall from a group calling itself "Citizens for a better Orange County" that opposes the Transfer Tax. It calls the tax the "Home Tax," which is clearly wrong on two levels. Firstly, the proposed tax is on all land sales, and secondly it is an attempt to falsely personalize this tax for local homeowners. Oh, and it fails to mention an important detail: the tax rate would be 0.4%. That's right: four tenths of a percent. That's one thousand dollars on a $250k hypothetical home. Sounds like too much money? Well, what are the alternatives? If this is defeated, the only two alternatives that have been seriously discussed are a sales tax (the most regressive tax possible) and a property tax increase. A property tax increase would be a home tax. Everything about the robocall was misleading and dishonest.
The call directs people to a website that I won't link to here. The website refers to "Tom Holt" as their treasurer and "Mark Zimmerman" as their spokesperson. A bit of googling gives:
My roommate and a few other folks I know are among the several UNC students on the second day of their protest against UNC's use of sweatshop labor, having occupied South Building since yesterday and with no intent of leaving until the Chancellor quits brushing them off. Check out the video below, and attend a rally in their support today at 4:30 PM just outside on the south quad. If UNC decides to use their police force to remove this peaceful protest, local friend and prominent civil rights attorney Al McSurely has agreed to serve as their legal representative.
So you’ve got Barack and Hillary all figured out, but what else is on the ballot?Yes, it’s my periodic profile of the lesser known races on the ballot this May. I will be partisan and leave it to some other writer to profile the Republican Primaries (there are some). And I am skipping over the US President, NC Governor and US Senate races, presuming that you can find some good info on those somewhere else. I am also skipping the Orange School Board and the District 2 Commissioner races because I don't live in either of those districts and have not really followed those races.So what else is out there? A bunch of stuff and some of it is even fairly important. I have bolded below the names of folks that I think are the clear choice. In a few races you will see two bolded names in cases where I think progressive voters have an interesting choice to make. I personally have an opinion about those races as well and that may come through in my commentary.Lieutenant Governor – No Incumbent There are four candidates for Lieutenant Governor, but only two of them seem to have much of a following in this area: Hampton Dellinger and Dan Besse.
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