Cabarrus Cheap Seats

If you haven’t noticed, others have been doing more writing on there than me, and that’s great. I’d like to do a quick roundup.

Sid Rauch gives us yet another reason why Coy should call it quits.

I think our District Attorney should reinstate the Cabarrus County charges related to his false police report and other allegations uncovered by the local investigation.

Mark Smith, who wrote the original Cabarrus County GOP Men’s Club Constitution, makes some thoughtful comments on the amendments to his Constitution.

When I read that the leadership of the Men’s Club decided to fold the organization, I was disappointed and outraged at the same time. Disappointed in a lack of leadership; the “I didn’t get my way, so I’m taking my ball and going home” attitude. Outraged at a lack of disrespect for the rules.

Cabarrus County GOP Chair Chris McCartan reminds us that Friday is the Cabarrus GOP Christmas Party

Many state and local officials have already confirmed that they’ll be here, and to top it off, on such an historic day, our keynote speakers will be two members of our armed services from WWII; more specifically, two members of the United States air crew.

Even though I authored this post, there are six commenters debating and discussing district representation on the Cabarrus BOC including Cabarrus Board of Commissioners Chair Bob Carruth with this interesting comment.

One idea to throw out - At least in the past 10 years, the election when 3 are elected showed that 2 of the 3 received, on average, a larger share of the vote than the 3rd place candidate. In 1998, Privette-Barnhart outpaced Fennel, who came within an eyelash of being beaten by Anderson. In 2002, Freeman-Carpenter finished well ahead of Privette. In 2006, Mynatt-White again finished well ahead of Privette. Why not have a provision that requires the 3rd place finisher (or 4th if we go to 7 members) to finish within a certain number of votes of the other winners in order qualify for a 4 year term? If not, then the candidate only gets a two year term. If that had been the case, then Fennel would had to run again in 2000, and Privette in 2004 and 2008.

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