Posted on 10/06/2009 4:43:07 AM PDT by RangerM
Don't forget to vote in your local election today!
I made a list of the Wake County School Board Candidates by where they stand on “diversity”.
Against Diversity
Chris Malone
John Tedesco
Deborah Pickett
Debra Goldman
For Diversity
Rita Rakestraw
Horace Tort
Karen Simon
Lois Nixon
As a kid growing up on Charlotte in the late’70s/early ‘80s, the forced busing was a joke. (I didn’t really know what was going on or understood it at the time)
We were still (relatively) segregated among the individual classrooms at First Ward Elementary.
I’m out in the middle of Chatham County. Nothing happening here today.
I grew up in Boston in the 60’s (actually a suburb) and busing was a Big Deal.
Just got back from the polls - unfortunately I guess I don’t live where I could vote for School Board - wasted trip.
Hey, it’s important nonetheless; at least in Wake County. The only way we’re going to implement our will is to show up.
Sadly, nothing going on here in the Democratic People’s Republic of Durham. Not that it’d matter too much anyway...the GOP hardly even fields candidates here anymore because it’s such a lost cause. It’s Philadelphia South, without the cheesesteaks.
}:-)4
It would be interesting for a turnout report after this election. Two days after the 9/12 march on Washington, we had a mayoral and city council primary in Charlotte, NC. Even with all of the awareness in the conservative community because of the tea parties and the march, we had about a 1% turnout, and the same leftist loonies will be back on the ticket in the next general election. People need to understand that this debacle in Washington started at the local level and reform must start at the local level also.
I really feel sorry for anyone who has to live in the leftist hellhole of Durham. It makes Carrboro look right wing. Im in Fayetteville. Besides Bragg another left wing dump. The dems here are at least capitalist.
Thanks, RangerM! Going to vote in a little while.
I am having a difficult time finding information on candidates...
i have used www.ncfamily.org has questionare sheets for information in the past...
correct grammar:
I have used www.ncfamily.org questionare sheets for information in the past...
I voted at approximately 7:30 this morning and was number 26.
Let’s hope the 25 ahead of you weren’t registered by ACORN. ;)
Busing worked great in Baltimore county. Parents paid a lot of money to buy homes in nice neigborhoods, then all the bad kids from the bad parts of town were bused in. I guess Libs think it’s better to bring the nice schools down, not try to push the bad schools up.
” It makes Carrboro look right wing.”
THAT would be tough! I lived in Carrboro for about a year, and can’t imagine a more leftist locale (DC and Ann Arbor, perhaps).
I guess Libs think it’s better to bring the nice schools down, not try to push the bad schools up.
I’m a little hopeful because, as low as turnout may have been, the GOP primary actually drew more voters in a city that is 50% D, 25% R. I’m not sure how typical or atypical that may be as I’ve never went back to look at past primary numbers, but I’ll take any sign of hope I can get.
Also, Ridenhour, Bokhari and Rao are all very good city council at-large candidates.
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