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Entries from August 2007

NCGOP to Coy Privette - Resign Now!

August 31st, 2007 · 11 Comments

The following is a letter from the North Carolina Republican Party that references one sent earlier this week from the Cabarrus County Republican Party:
August 30, 2007
Dear Commissioner Privette:
This letter is to confirm in writing what I have said to you by telephone.
In view of your recent confession to aiding and abetting prostitution, I want you [...]

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Tags: Ancient History · Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners · Cabarrus Politics

Cabarrus GOP to Coy Privette: Resign Now!

August 31st, 2007 · 9 Comments

There’ll be more on Tuesday (I forgot Monday was a holiday and, thus, there will be no substantial blogging until Tuesday).
If you would like to take action regarding Coy Privette - please e-mail me justin (at) cabarruscheapseats.com. I will forward your e-mail to a citizen whose going to hand the e-mails to Coy and [...]

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Tags: Ancient History · Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners · Cabarrus Politics

Be Back Monday

August 28th, 2007 · Comments Off

Well, not fishin’; but I’ll be gone with stuff related to work and the family.
I plan on being back Monday (y’all know how that has worked in the past).
In the mean time, enjoy some of the recent posts and join some discussions. Or, follow my example and get back to work and your families.

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Friday Five - We’re Old

August 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

Note: For those reading this over RSS or e-mail, you’ll have to go to the site to view the videos.
Since 2002, to help calibrate educators to the offset in age between them and their students to the difference in their ages, Beloit College releases the Mindset List. It’s an eye-opening list to understanding the [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners · Friday Five · Personal Experiences

Odell Charm School Part 3 of 3: File A Phony Ethics Complaint

August 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

When we last left our two participants at the Odell Lobbying seminar being taught by “Fella From Odell” the instructor from was suggesting that being rude should help when offering bribes doesn’t.
Part 3: “File a phony ethics complaint”

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Odell Charm School Part 2 of 3: Be Generally Rude

August 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

On Tuesday, I told you about a lobbying class that I sat in on. For the first part of the strategy was bribery. And the second part, be rude:

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Cabarrus Republican Men’s Club Meeting Tonight

August 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off

Brief Programming Note: Locusts have conspired against me and kept me away from ye olde blog the past two days. I’ll have the Friday Five and the remainder of the Odell Incorporation series tomorrow.

THE CABARRUS GOP MEN’S CLUB invites you to meet and hear a 20 member team of TEEN CHALLENGE
TEEN CHALLENGE began in 1958, [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners · Cabarrus Politics

Odell Charm School Part 1 of 3: Bribe ‘em

August 21st, 2007 · 9 Comments

 
Not a lot of people know this; but an unnamed person from the Odell Community held a training class on “How to Lobby Your Local Officials for Results”.  Over the next three days - I’ll be sharing some excerpts from what I saw. 
Here’s the first step in their three-step process: ”Ignore The Law”

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Cabarrus County Jail: This is Your Opportunity To Fight Waste

August 20th, 2007 · 7 Comments

You ever watch the news and get upset with bridges to nowhere, bridges that fall apart, government waste, etc? You wish there’s something you could do about it?
Well, now is your opportunity.

Do you think that Cabarrus County has spent too much on the jail?
If the answer is “no”, try this question - do you [...]

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Tags: Cabarrus Communities · Cabarrus County Jail

To My Second Banned Commenter

August 17th, 2007 · Comments Off

Part of the reason that I switched to Wordpress from Blogger was better control of comments. Just for a little background, when I was back at Blogger I had to approve every comment because one person would spend their whole making slanderous comments about elected officials. That person now runs their own blog [...]

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