Cabarrus Cheap Seats

“The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.” - Thomas Carlyle
According to Harold Smith and Coy Privette - I’ve been undertaxed. Or, they were simply mistaken. Or, they were exploiting perception to score some votes in the May Primary.
I’m going to serve up a big helping of the benefit of [...]

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Alright, I’ve been meaning to get to this; but the holidays, the last article, and all of the end-of-the-year stuff at work has delayed me. So, here goes:
December 13, 2005: The “Soap Opera” 
The end of the controlling inflence of the Raders over the Kannapolis City Council
Darrell Hinnant was “huffy and puffy” in Monday’s Kannapolis City [...]

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In the 2005 Election Thoughts article, I stated that Michael Hart and Steve Sciascia had never voted before. I had based that on a statement made by Mark Martin in an Independent Tribune article.
This is, in fact, not the case. When I was writing the article, I couldn’t get to the State Board Of Elections [...]

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There are 90,739 voters in Cabarrus County. 6845 (or 7.5%) are marked as Inactive. That leaves about 84,000 people. Well, about 10% of them bothered to show up and vote in this past election. The results were predictable; and the news media analyzed the election just long enough to cut to the story of two [...]

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In today’s Cabarrus Neighbors, there were instructions given on how to get to the voter’s guides they put together. I thought I would share the links here:
Concord
4 hoping to unseat Padgett
Grid | Positions on issues
Bios: mayoral candidates
Bios: Council candidates
Kannapolis:
10 run for Kannapolis seats
Grid: Candidates on issues
Bios: Mayoral candidates
Bios: City council candidates [...]

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In these last moments before the Kannapolis City Council Election, does Harold Smith take his opponents on the issues? Does he layout a different vision for the City of Kannapolis? Does he offer up a bold, new initiative to address the community at a crossroads?
Not Exactly.

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2005 Cabarrus Election Challenge I: The Easiest Question - Why are you running for office this year?

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Here it is…your last question for Cabarrus Candidate Challenge. Next Wednesday, I’m going to post all of the answers to all of the questions in one big post for the voters to read. So, if there are questions you’d like to answer, now is the time.
Here’s the last question: Do you see a need for [...]

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I opened up the Cabarrus Neighbors today and was checking out the candidate profiles when I came across James Hurley Klontz . Here was his last book read:
Light Her Fire! How to Ignite Passion, Joy, and Excitement in the Women You Love by Ellen Kreidmen
(Yes, no typo, that’s “WomEn”)
I’ll leave you, dear reader, with this [...]

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The most talked-about political issue in 2005 has been the Cabarrus County property tax increase. Property owners faced 20% rate hike on top of last year’s revaluation. A major part of the controversy was that the people “opposed” to the tax hike didn’t identify any substantial cuts in the budget to allow for a lower [...]

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