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WTH ! Investigation over Political Flier being too Political !; CRAZY -- CRAZY
Topic Started: Sep 15 2011, 12:27 AM (410 Views)
Mason
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This is leading the N.C. News!

I guess you can't campaign against DEM candidiates!

Anyone Heard of Free Speech!


State elections board investigating Wake schools race flier

Raleigh, N.C. — The State Board of Elections is investigating a campaign flier targeting five candidates running for the Wake County Board of Education.

The flier, which circulated at the school board's meeting last week and was posted to the candidates' Facebook pages on Monday, shows photos of national NAACP President Ben Jealous and state NAACP President Rev. William Barber, including a photo of Barber being arrested last year while protesting the end of the school system's long-standing policy of busing for socioeconomic diversity policy.

Under the heading "INDOCTRINATION," the flier calls candidates Susan Evans, Kevin Hill, Christine Kushner, Jim Martin and Keith Sutton "radicals" and "liberal allies" of Jealous and Barber and accuses them of supporting forced busing, social engineering and quota systems in student assignment.

The Wake County Democratic Party endorsed the five candidates last month.

Gary Sims, deputy director of the Wake County Board of Elections, says his board received a complaint about the flier on Tuesday and that it was sent to the state elections board.

The state board is investigating to see if the flier violates any campaign finance laws or any other election-related laws, Sims said.

Sutton spoke out about the flier on Tuesday, accusing the school board's Republican-backed majority and "their tea party supporters" of "name calling, attacks and division" ahead of the Oct. 11 election.

He said the person who posted the flier to his Facebook page went by the username "Rino Hunter," a term tea party activists use to accuse Republican candidates of being "RINOs" – "Republicans In Name Only."

"I would hope that both members of the board majority and our opponents would denounce such tactics being used," Sutton said.

Hill said Wednesday that he believes the fliers are inappropriate. His opponent Heather Losurdo agrees.

"I feel like it was a step out of what should be happening," Losurdo said.

Fellow candidate Jennifer Mansfield said the race has "gotten too political."

Both women said they have not seen any attacks against their campaigns.

Losurdo said she had a problem with a paper an overzealous supporter attached to her campaign flier. The paper called for a stop to the "liberal Obama-Perdue machine."

Going forward, Losurdo said she told volunteers not to add their opinions to her message.

http://www.wral.com/news/education/wake_county_schools/story/10133248/


You can't connect a DEM Gov that supported Obama to Obama?



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Edited by Mason, Sep 15 2011, 12:28 AM.
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Let me know if anyone calls the fliers inaccurate.

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How is it a "race" flier?
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Sep 15 2011, 12:57 AM
How is it a "race" flier?
It looks like "race" means political contest, and the headline forces one to read the article before they can see it how it is used.


Gary Sims, deputy director of the Wake County Board of Elections, says his board received a complaint about the flier on Tuesday and that it was sent to the state elections board.

The state board is investigating to see if the flier violates any campaign finance laws or any other election-related laws, Sims said



It reads like there is nothing illegal about it, probably just headlines the "Wake County Democratic Party" wanted and got by filing a complaint. They filed the complaint on Tuesday, had headlines on Wednesday, and can't even cite some rule or law that was violated.
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They couldn't have written "election" or "campaign" flyer?
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Then you wouldn't read the article to see what "race" meant!
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kbp
Sep 15 2011, 08:22 AM
Then you wouldn't read the article to see what "race" meant!
I wouldn't read it anyway.

Wake School board news = William Barber = :puk:
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It seems like some think it should be illegal to campaign against them - and the media is supporting the coverage in that manner.

If someone says something bad about the Tea Party - is it covered in a manner that the person that spoke is being investigated? Or that - this is the reputation of the Tea Party?

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