
{"id":1796,"date":"2008-02-06T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/02\/06\/letter-from-the-editor-020708\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T23:36:42","slug":"letter-from-the-editor-020708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/02\/06\/letter-from-the-editor-020708\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from the editor: 02\/07\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With apologies to Mr. Wolfe<\/strong><br \/>\nNow that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not working the campaign trail, John Edwards and family are a lot more visible around town. He was close to courtside in the comfy seats at the Smith Center during last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Boston College game and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been making the rounds lately to thank the staff and hometown volunteers and supporters. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And if you were strolling by Milltown the other night, you might have heard the former senator \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or someone who sounds just like him \u00e2\u20ac\u201d belting out a Bon Jovi number during the karaoke challenge at a party for the staff. The tune was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who Says You Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Go Home.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the chorus:<\/p>\n<p><em>Who says you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go home<br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one place they call me one of their own<br \/>\nJust a hometown boy, born a rolling stone, who says you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go home<br \/>\nWho says you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go back, been all around the world and as a matter of fact<br \/>\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only one place left I want to go, who says you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go home<br \/>\nIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alright, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alright, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alright, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alright, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s alright<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed. Welcome home, John.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campaign finance<\/strong><br \/>\nNothing wrong with a nice dinner, but when a candidate in a local race drops $6K on a fundraiser at La Rez, well, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna get noticed.<\/p>\n<p>There are all kinds of tidbits of information in the local campaign finance reports if you peruse the recent filings on the OC Board of Elections website. Of the recent filings, Chapel Hill Town Council candidate Matt Czajkowski\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s was by far the most interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The largely self-financed candidate, who edged out Cam Hill by 60 votes, dropped $5979.17 for an early December \u00e2\u20ac\u0153victory party and fundraiser\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at the lovely Rosemary Street establishment. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a hefty chunk of the roughly $20,000 the newcomer spent overall and three times the amount he raised from contributors throughout the race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friends of Bill?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lost on several observers that a board of aldermen item to schedule breakfast with the state legislative delegation included a yes or no poll about extending Rep.<br \/>\nWilliam Faison (D-Cedar Grove) an invitation. Not sure if someone at the town knows that Faison is simply not a breakfast eater (he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 0 for 3 returning our phone calls, so I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bother asking) and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to force him. But the item did cause some residents to wonder if there was a move to snub Faison, who presents a couple of precincts in northern Carrboro, over his support for a bill to de-annex The Highlands and that derailing last session of the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign finance bill.<\/p>\n<p>A few aldermen objected to the poll saying it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem right and noting that Faison had attended similar events before. So, the poll was removed and Faison, like the rest of the delegation, is on the invite list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HKoJ<\/strong><br \/>\nThe acronym really reminds me of something you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d buy at an IKEA, but the Historic Thousands on Jones Street is an annual gathering in Raleigh that brings together a coalition of groups fighting for civil rights, a better health care system, labor issues, a cleaner environment and a number of other causes.<\/p>\n<p>The event is Saturday with a rally at Chavis Park at 11 a.m. and a march to the General Assembly at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>More than 5,000 people representing 75 organizations attended last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dKirk Ross<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Mr. Wolfe Now that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not working the campaign trail, John Edwards and family are a lot more visible around town. He was close to courtside in the comfy seats at the Smith Center during last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Boston College game and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been making the rounds lately to thank the staff and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-letter-from-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}