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Contact: Gary Coats
Phone: 864.641.5591
E-mail: gary@steveparker08.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
May 16, 2008
Steve Parker Makes 1000th Personal Phone Call
Boiling Springs, SC - On Wednesday, May 14, 2008, Steve Parker made his 1000th personal phone call to local constituents discussing the issues that affect them most.
This is another example of Steve Parker’s [...]
Our friend Piedmont Publius called attention to the fact that Asheville was running city buses to and from the Michelle Obama rally at UNCA not too long ago. At Tuesday’s city council meeting, activist Mike Fryar informed members of council that the two buses, which covered a total of [...]
From Under the Dome comes news of a shakeup in Dole Land.
In the ultimate "Friday Afternoon News Dump" Elizabeth Dole announced after 5pm today that her campaign will be under new management soon.
J. Sam Daniels, the campaign manager, has been shifted into the role of a top fund raiser, [...]
I saw a chance on Equality NC's website to share a letter with local leaders on the "defense of marriage" amendment. I see CA moving in the right direction, and I don't want NC to move in the wrong one. (Arnold wont let it happen through legislation, but will through [...]
BETSY J. WOLFENDEN ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF CAMPAIGN WEBSITE
CHAPEL HILL – 5/16/08 – Betsy J. Wolfenden, candidate for 15-B District Court Judge, announces the launch of her campaign website: www.betsyforjudge.com
Betsyforjudge.com educates voters on the importance of electing impartial judges and on Wolfenden’s position on the issues, including the need [...]
Finding balance can be hard sometimes, especially in politics. It's easy to get mean, and the truth is, I don't want us to be mean. Us as in anyone. For example, I shouldn't have started that photo caption contest about Liddy, I didn't think through that it could go south [...]
A three-way race to fill the seat created by Rep. Floyd Breeland’s retirement pits two political veterans who have served at least two terms on Charleston City Council, against a young Iraqi war veteran who currently works for one [...]
There has been a shakeup in the Senate campaign of GOP Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
J. Sam Daniels, the campaign manager, has been shifted into the role of a top fund raiser, Rob Christensen reports. He will be replaced by Marty Ryall, who until recently ran the gubernatorial campaign [...]
Now I know what my good friend Ty Harrell meant when he told me that campaigning for yourself is totally different than campaigning for someone else.
I've got more than 15 years of campaigns under my belt and have experienced the highs and lows of Democratic politics. But now my wife [...]
Not enough people know about the N.C. Research Campus, according to [...]
A Department of Veterans Affairs team leader in Texas suggested mental health professionals should diagnose patients with “adjustment disorder” rather than post traumatic stress disorder in order to save time and money treating veterans, according to an internal VA e-mail.
VA Secretary James Peake immediately called the e-mail “inappropriate” and a [...]
The News & Observer has a story today about the situation in the North Carolina penal system where they are running out of room for prisoners. The most obvious solution, but also an expensive one, is to build more prisons. I think that is inevitable in the short term, [...]
Charlotte is known as a buttoned up, conservative city in many ways, but it does have a sense of humor, or does it? We’ll find out from some veteran comedians in the Queen City. Prepare to laugh.
More here.
Sen. Elizabeth Dole's new campaign Web site includes a five-minute video in which she and her husband, former Sen. Bob Dole, talk about how they met.
The video, which features lighting design that would make Barbara Walters' producers jealous, is modeled loosely on segments from [...]
From the “Your Government at Work” files:
Easley Proposes Capital Visitor’s Center
Gov. Mike Easley’s budget proposal includes $40.4 million for a new capital visitor’s center.
The existing visitor’s center, isn’t a center at all, David Bracken reports. It’s a reception desk hidden in a corner of the N.C. Museum [...]
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr joined his Democratic colleague on the Senate Veteran Affairs committee today in calling for an independent investigation into a veterans hospital in Texas and its diagnoses of PTSD.
Burr, of Winston-Salem, is the top Republican on the committee. He and Sen. [...]
RALEIGH — Gov. Mike Easley has thrown his support behind a proposed monument on the State Capitol grounds honoring the African-American experience in North Carolina.
The governor will ask the General Assembly for $1 million for the N.C. Freedom Monument Project as part of his proposed budget released earlier this week.
State [...]
U.S. Rep. David Price says he’s disappointed with President Bush’s remarks to the Israeli parliament on Thursday, just 24 hours after Price and about 50 other members of Congress urged Bush to promote diplomacy in his visit to the region this week.
"The president’s comments yesterday demonstrated [...]
On Wednesday, the legislature’s ethics committee agreed to a bill that would prohibit the state auditor from investigating possible violations of the ethics law. Instead, the State Ethics Commission would have sole authority to enforce ethics laws.
Legislative supporters of the bill, mostly Democrats, say their goal is to have a [...]
Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole must have been watching the polls in recent days, because she predicts a hard-fought race to keep her seat next fall.
In her first blog post on her new election site, Dole says she expects to have to defend her record against attacks.
"Modern [...]
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