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Early voting begins

Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on October 13, 2010 - 4:30pm

...Tomorrow!  (Read on for details.)

LOCATIONS, DATES AND HOURS FOR EARLY VOTING

        for the November 2, 2010 General Election

 

Please note differences in times and days for each of the 3 sites

 

                            Board of Elections Office

              208 South Cameron Street, Hillsborough

 

                  Thursday – Friday - October 14 – October 15 – 9 am to 5 pm

                   Monday – Friday - October 18 – October 22 – 9 am to 5 pm

                   Saturday - October 23 – 9 am to 1 pm

                   Monday – Friday - October 25 – October 29 – 9 am to 5 pm

                   Saturday - October 30 – 9 am to 1 pm

 

                            Morehead Planetarium

                250 East Franklin Street, Chapel Hill

 

                     Monday – Friday - October 18 – October 22 – 9 am to 5 pm

                     Saturday - October 23 – 9 am to 1 pm

                     Monday – Friday - October 25 – October 29 – 9 am to 5 pm

                     NO voting on last Saturday - Oct. 30 at Morehead

                       **** UNC Football Game starts at 1:00 pm ***

 

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                            Seymour Senior Center

                   2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill

                     Monday – Friday – October 18 – October 22 – 12 pm to 7 pm

                     Saturday - October 23 – 9 am to 1 pm

                     Monday – Friday – October 25 – October 29 – 12 pm to 7 pm

                     Saturday - October 30 – 9 am to 1 pm

 

Date: 

Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 5:00am

More Information: 

http://www.co.orange.nc.us/elect/onestop.asp

Candidates Forum with David Price & BJ Lawson

Submitted by OP Editors on October 4, 2010 - 9:26am

Ask them yourself! US Rep David Price (D) & BJ Lawson (R) 
debate the issues at a candidates' forum co-sponsored by the Independent Weekly & BullCityRising.com. Public may submit questions to the candidates at the event or in advance by e-mailing editors@indyweek.com. The 4th Congressional District includes Durham, Orange & parts of Chatham & Western Wake (Cary, Fuquay, Holly Springs, New Hill, Morrisville) counties. In the second-floor public space of the Durham Transportation Center, 515 W Pettigrew St. 

Date: 

Friday, October 8, 2010 - 2:30pm

Location: 

Durham Transportation Center, 515 W Pettigrew St., Durham

More Information: 

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/candidates-forum-with-david-price-and-bj-lawson…

An Open Letter to BJ Lawson

Submitted by zabouti@gmail.com on October 3, 2010 - 12:27pm
BJ, when you first started running against David Price, George W Bush was still president of our country and the leader of your party.  You seemed different, a breath of fresh air - you talked about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and seemed to have some idea of the dangers of powerful government.  As a civil libertarian, I wanted to find out more about you, so I contacted you and we had a wonderful three-hour breakfast meeting where we seemed to agree on a lot of principles and issues.  After that we met once, perhaps twice, for more pleasant and stimulating conversations.  I even invited you to a liberal political group, where you impressed other liberals with your apparent earnestness and even with some of your ideas.

At one point I asked you why you belonged to the Republican Party.  You replied that the party was broken, ripe for takeover.   That sounded reasonable, given the ways that a Republican President and Congress had tossed away a budget surplus and gone to war against a country that hadn't attacked us.  That Republican Party is dangerous, I said, and you seemed to agree.

Chapel Hill government and social media

Submitted by Geoff Green on September 22, 2010 - 12:47pm

Ruby's recent post about the problems with the Town's communication strategy regarding the new Downtown Development Framework got me to think about the ways in which our town's government does not use social media to communicate with constituents. I'll have more to say about this hopefully in a future blog post, but this one item jumped out at me:

Lawson Push Polling in NC-4

Submitted by Patrick M on August 12, 2010 - 8:12pm

I was push-polled by Edge polling on behalf of the Lawson campaign or some other Republican PAC this evening.  The questions were reasonably straightforward for the first 5-7 minutes, then got more paranoid about illegal immigration and whether or not the country had abandoned the Constitution.  It closed with something like, "David Price, a college professor and your current representative, is an 11-term incumbent who supports Barack Obama's takeover and bailouts for companies that are too big to fail, and votes with Nancy Pelosi more than any other member of Congress.  If this makes you more likely to vote for him, press 1.  If it makes you less likely, press 2."

Final question, same button choices:

 "BJ Lawson is a father, a medical doctor, and a successful small businessman who is reported to have strong grassroots support who will lower taxes and restore the Constitution blah blah blah..."

 The most interesting question was about whether or not I supported Federal regulations that may add burdens to local and small farmers who sell at Farmer's Markets.  Perhaps Lawson is trying this out as a wedge issue against Price?

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