Name as it appears on the ballot: Valerie P. Foushee Campaign website:FousheeforNC.com Phone number:919-245-3266 Email:[email protected] Years lived in the district: 60 1. In your view, what are the three most pressing issues North Carolina faces? If elected, what will you do to address these issues? (1) Providing for a world-class public education system, (2) strengthening […]
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How Are N.C. Republicans Responding to Donald Trump’s Lewd Comments?
On Friday, The Washington Post unearthed a decade-old hot-mic recording of Donald Trump boasting of his sexual prowess to television personality Billy Bush. In it, Trump, then a fifty-nine-year-old newlywed, admitted that he “did try and fuck” a married woman (“I moved on her like a bitch”) and that he popped Tic Tacs because, when […]
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Chuck Stuber – State Auditor
Chuck Stuber ChuckStuber.com 919-916-9473 42 years lived in North Carolina [email protected] In your view, what are the 3 most pressing issues the State Auditor faces? If elected, what will you do to address these issues? The State Auditor must have adequate resources to ensure that the Auditor’s Office has the most advanced tools in the […]
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Elaine Marshall – Secretary of State
Name as it appears on the ballot: Elaine F. Marshall Campaign website: www.elainemarshall.com Phone number: 919-719-3907 Email: [email protected] Years lived in the state: 47 1. What do you see as the most important issues facing the secretary of state in North Carolina? If elected, what are your top three priorities in addressing those issues? Our […]
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Loathe Hillary? Fine. Vote for Her, Anyway. Democracy Depends on It.
I didn’t vote in my first presidential election. It was 2000. I’d just turned twenty-one. I’d voted in the primary, for former NBA star and New Jersey senator Bill Bradley, whose Northeastern cerebral style appealed to me, sort of like Jed Bartlet from The West Wing. But he lost. Al Gore won, and I just […]
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How Jim Obergefell Became an Unlikely Civil Rights Hero
Love Wins Benefit for Equality NC Featuring Jim Obergefell Cat’s Cradle, 300 East Main Street, Carrboro $32; 7 p.m. September 23 Five years ago, Jim Obergefell couldn’t have imagined how his life would unfurl, how his very name would become synonymous with a cornerstone event in civil rights history, no less than Mildred and Richard […]
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The Pride Issue: A Look at the Victories Won and the Challenges Facing the LGBTQ Community
If you step back and think about it, it’s kind of amazing to consider how far we’ve come, how fasthow, two decades ago, gay sex was illegal in many states, gays weren’t allowed in the military and were generally dismissed as perverts, the gay-rights debate was framed not in terms of civil rights but “special […]
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N.C. Republicans Offer a Fake HB 2 Compromise, Charlotte Turns Them Down
Man, it’s been a week, huh? First the NCAA pulled its championships from North Carolina over HB 2; then the ACC followed suit; then a smattering of Republican legislators began talking about amending or even repealing the law; then Governor McCrorydesperate to salvage his flagging re-election bidand Republican leaders broached a “compromise” in which the […]
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The Morning Roundup: Donald Trump’s Campaign Swears Donald Trump Is No Longer a Racist Birther, and We Totally Believe Them
Polling better than he has since August 20, Donald Trump started Wednesday with the wind at his back. And then: Of all these things—any one of which could be fatal in a more normal political year—the one getting the most attention today is his return to birtherism, or at least his refusal to disavow birtherism […]
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The Morning Roundup: There’s a Storm Coming
Greetings and salutations, everyone. The good news: it’s Labor Day weekend. The bad news: your Saturday is gonna be soaked. Let’s dive in. 1. Hermine has landed in Florida. It’s the first hurricane my native state has seen in a decade. By tomorrow morning, my new state will be getting drenched, though we won’t be […]
