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Municipal Corner - stories about or interviews with officials from municipalities in Wake county (should include Raleigh)
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Legislative Vote Tally - What issues have Wake legislators voted on since last newsletter and how have they voted
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| Candidate for lieutenant governor says state should stop being magnet for illegal immigrants (Nikie Mayo, Sun Journal) - Today, March 06, 2008, 11 hours ago - Greg Dority has his sights on the lieutenant governor’s office, where he intends to “demagnetize the attraction” he says the state has for illegal immigrants. The Republican from Washington, N.C., has made two runs for Congress, losing to Frank Ballance in 2002 and to current U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield in 2004. But he says he’s learned to listen since then and has heard voters’ frustrations about illegal immigration. “There’s true anger there,” he said Tuesday. He was campaigning in Craven and Onslow counties during the day. “Illegal immigration is affecting our society because it puts pressure on our structures, even … the wage structure,” Dority said. “People already feel like they have less and less money left over. … They feel they’re being nickel-and-dimed from the top with taxes and fees and then squeezed from the bottom … when an illegal immigrant takes a job from a North Carolina resident,” he said. North Carolina must be in a “race to the bottom” with its neighboring states when it comes to attracting illegal immigrants, he said. “North Carolina is more of a magnet for illegal immigrants than Georgia, Tennessee or Virginia because of the ease of gaining a driver’s license here and the availability of social services,” he said. “We have to get tougher on those two things to demagnetize the attraction and to reduce the incentive for illegal immigrants to come here.” (Nikie Mayo, Sun Journal)
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Committee
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| Hillary: Stand By Some Other Man (Ann Coulter, humanevents.com) - Today, March 06, 2008, 12 hours ago - The mainstream media said she was finished, but our brave Hillary soldiered on to wallop B. Hussein Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night. I don't know what the MSM is so upset about-- we let them pick the Republican nominee. Did they want to pick the Democratic nominee, too? (Ann Coulter, humanevents.com) |
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Chairman's remarks
| Tell Berkley City Council to stop harassing the US Marines! (townhall.com) - Today, March 06, 2008, 13 hours ago - I am outraged by the actions of the Berkeley City Council. The U.S. Marines are a crucial part of our Armed Forces which young men and women join to serve their nation and defend their county. They deserve our support and sincere gratitude when they do. Many have sacrificed dearly for the freedoms that leaders in Berkeley take for granted. I support efforts in Congress like the Semper Fi act that pull back funding for projects in Berkeley. If Berkeley is hostile to our nation’s defenders, it doesn’t need our tax money either. (townhall.com)
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Municipal
Corner
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stories
about or
interviews
with
officials
from
municipalities
in Wake
county
(should
include
Raleigh)
| Hillary's Wins Raise Prospect of the Unthinkable -- A Contested Convention (Bob Novak, humanevents.com) - Today, March 06, 2008, 13 hours ago - A group of prominent Democrats was being formed secretly to go to Clinton to ask her to bow out for the sake of party solidarity. Now, neither candidate, counting their current super-delegates and potential unpledged delegates, can win a majority of delegates even after the Pennsylvania primary April 22. It is hard to imagine either bowing out. That raises the possibility of carnage in Denver with the super-delegates and the disputed Michigan and Florida delegations in play. (Bob Novak, humanevents.com) |
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School
Board
Review
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stories
on
issues
being
reviewed
by
school
board
| 'No-frills' schools plan is a no-go (News & Observer) - Yesterday, March 05, 2008, 10:12:43 AM - T. Keung Hui and Sam LaGrone, Staff Writers RALEIGH - An extra $35 million may be considered a "no-frills" budget request by Wake County school leaders, but the county commissioners who are being asked to ante up warn that it's too much to ask from taxpayers. "This would appear to be a budget that would take all of our revenue growth and leave no other funds for any other county services" said Joe Bryan, chairman of the Wake County Board of Commissioners. "I don't think we could grow the county services and taxes by 12 percent." (N & O) |
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Legislative
Vote
Tally
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issues
have
Wake
legislators
voted on
since
last
newsletter
and how
have
they
voted
| Illegals, legals deported under bill - Strict immigration needed, Dole says... (News & Observer) - Yesterday, March 05, 2008, 9:56:46 AM - Barbara Barrett, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole will join a handful of moderate and conservative Republicans in introducing a host of anti-immigration bills today in the U.S. Senate. Dole, a Salisbury Republican, has been increasingly vocal about enforcement measures in the past year, and she played a key role in blocking last year's attempted comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. (News & Observer)
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| 2008 General Assembly Candidate Filing Analysis (CIVITAS Institute) - Yesterday, March 05, 2008, 6:49:44 AM - As the 2008 election progresses the Civitas Institute will periodically look at the election process and landscape and give insight and analysis into where the elections may be heading. Using analysis and polling, the Civitas Institute will report what is happening on the campaign trail and what North Carolinians say are the important issues this year. In this first report we use the North Carolina Partisan Index (NCPI) to look at how legislative candidate filing has shaped the fall election. (CIVITAS Institute) |
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From the
Donkey's
Mouth
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things
said or
done by
Democrats
and
liberals
in Wake
county
| Huckabee Takes a Bow (Washington Post) - Tuesday, March 04, 2008, 10:56:08 PM - Huckabee said he called McCain to congratulate him for an "honorable" campaign and pledging "to do everything possible to unite our party, but more importantly to unite our country." (Washington Post) |
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Wake GOP
written
articles
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topics
of
interest
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What it
means to
be a
conservative,
etc...)
| It could be Texas or bust for Mike Huckabee. (FoxNews.com) - Sunday, March 02, 2008, 4:47:00 AM - It could be Texas or bust for Mike Huckabee. The long-shot GOP candidate is making a big final push in the Lone Star State ahead of Tuesday’s four-state primary contest. The former Arkansas governor says he’s going to keep “plugging away” until somebody reaches the 1,191 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. |
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