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Nother PSA
Mark Barrett at the Asheville Citizen-Times just tweeted there will be a Moral March to the Polls in Asheville this Saturday. In case you haven’t updated your lexicon, “moral,” when…
William Barber II
civil rights leader from North Carolina
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N.C. voter ID law: ‘James Crow, Esq.’
The federal trial challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law wrapped up in Winston-Salem on Monday, with attorneys on both sides of the issue making their closing arguments: Penda Hair, an attorney for…
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Immune to Your Emotional Bonds
The Reverend Dr. William Barber is at it again. The Rev. rose to fame with his attacks on state reforms viewed as being “Republican.” The latest campaign has the backing…
Elections & Public Integrity
Redistricting fights not confined to North Carolina
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek focuses attention on the legal fights surrounding electoral redistricting nationwide. The magazine version of the article (substantially different from this online piece) features the…
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Gboro’s “Bully” Barber
Friends over at Carolina Plott Hound refer to the Rev. William Barber as “Bully” Barber. But —according to the N&R, Greensboro has its own “Bully” Barber —City Council member Mike…
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Civil rights museum getting desperate
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stranger down at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, board chair Deena Hayes Greene pulls another card out of her sleeve.…
Elections & Public Integrity
‘It was my understanding that there would be no math’
I was reminded of Chevy Chase’s famous portrayal of President Gerald Ford in debate when I read Barry Smith’s article in Carolina Journal today: The 38 percent voting-age turnout is…
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“I think that is extremely disingenuous and extremely inappropriate”
Carolina Journal’s Barry Smith reports today on disturbing information about a possible plan to disrupt voting in North Carolina. As early voting opens for the 2014 general election, an attorney…
Elections & Public Integrity
Spoiling the previous Haugh-as-spoiler narrative
It has been received wisdom for months — almost to the point of the election headlines having already been written — that Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate Sean Haugh was…
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Shut down & Feel the Energy
A recent article on the Fourth Circuit Court’s ruling on NC’s new voting laws continues to annoy. Moral Monday leader William J. Barber, II maintains the compression of early voting…
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Meanwhile, the NYT…..
Big New York Times article on North Carolina as a “state in play.” In addition to Thom Tillis and Kay Hagan, the cast of faces and places includes Jesse Helms,…
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Today’s least surprising election headlines….
The NAACP —and that means the Rev. William Barber —is asking the State Board of Elections to investigate and prosecute Sen. Phil Berger regarding his television ad that highlights his…