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On powerlessness The power and it became one of those opportunities went down in my for us to encounter one another, bond neighborhood in our suffering, however trivial, perhaps on Thursday experience some true empathy for our afternoon, shortly neighbors across the city. after Hurricane By Saturday night we had all gotten to Michael hit its know each other just a little bit better, and apogee in the we cleaned out our refrigerators. by Brian Clarey Triad and before At our house Friday night, the teen the creeks began to overflow. squad gathered by candlelight for a The teenagers, home from school, were sleepover and a marathon session of gobsmacked. No electricity. No wifi signal. old-school Monopoly — dice, cards, little Sure, their devices were charged enough plastic houses and hotels, the whole deal. for the next few hours, but what then? Some of them left homes with perfectly What then? functioning electrical systems to do this. And it’s not like The oldest came their various screens home from school were doing them any for the weekend, and After prowling around good. Without access sat strumming his old like cats locked in a to the great neural acoustic guitar. Our room, they flopped on cloud, they couldn’t so youngest emerged much as post an Insta. from her bedroom the couch, despondent A phone that only to be a part of this in surrender as the storm makes calls and sends celebration of powerraged outside. texts is practically uselessness. less. It might as well be They thought it a pager. was hilarious, though After prowling they kept their devices around like cats locked in a room, they within eyesight as their batteries dwindled flopped on the couch, despondent in surdown. render as the storm raged outside. By the time the power chirped back to It’s good to feel powerless once in a life on Saturday afternoon, the stragglers while, to remember that those things of the teen squad, too, emerged from upon which we increasingly rely are not their analog states; they raced to recharge permanent fixtures, and certainly not their devices and get the PlayStation guaranteed. started. So like everyone else all over town, we Because as an experiment powerlessshowered at the gym for a couple days, ness can be useful. But it’s tough to live and we ate at restaurants, charging our that way. devices piecemeal as we moved around. The coffeeshops and restaurants that remained open boomed over the weekend,
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CITY LIFE October 18–24, 2018 by Savi Ettinger
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Ribbon cutting @ Wonderland Bookshop (GSO), 1 p.m.
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Join this family-owned bookstore for the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating their grand opening. Young readers will delight that this shop specializes in children’s and young-adult literature, with stories for all ages. The event is free and open to the public. Find out more on their Facebook page. Movements & Migrations Conference @ Wake Forest University (W-S), 3 p.m. Head over to Wake’s Bolton University Center for a series of panels and presentations on the potential real-world applications of the humanities. Experienced professors, including keynote speakers Yarimar Bonilla and Kyle Powys Whyte, will focus on migration and displacement. For more information, find the event on Facebook.
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Trail of Treats and Hocus Pocus @ Bolton Park (W-S), 5:30 p.m. Come in costume for the third annual Trail of Treats, boasting 30 organizations with games and activities for children to win candy and prizes. Food trucks offer extra snacks, and be sure to pack a blanket, because the night concludes with a showing of Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus. Find details on Facebook.
Ghost Stories in the Park @ High Point Museum, 6 p.m.
Frankenstein @ Reynolds Auditorium (W-S), 7:30 p.m.
America’s Workforce: Empowering All @ SECCA (W-S), 5:30 p.m.
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Chow down on popcorn and cider during the 7th annual Ghost Stories in the Park. Jon Sundell invites the audience to participate as he spins tales of autumn, with apple picking, witches and spirits. Pumpkin decorating and face painting add to the seasonal fun. Find the event on Facebook. The Piedmont Wind Symphony presents Michael Shapiro’s score to the 1931 feature Frankenstein, as the classic film plays. Whether you’re a music lover or a horror buff, this multi media event will electrify you. Buy tickets and find out more at piedmontwindsymphony.com. Miss North Carolina USA Pageant @ High Point Theater, 7:30 p.m. Both the young-adult and teen competitions for the title of Miss North Carolina take place into the weekend. Join for a display of poise and strength with the preliminaries on Friday and the finals on Saturday. Purchase tickets and find more on missnorthcarolinausa.com.
Mass of the Children @ Maple Springs United Methodist Church (W-S), 7:30 p.m. The Piedmont Chamber Singers’ 41st season starts off with a performance of John Rutter’s Mass of the Children. This collaborative concert will spotlight the Winston-Salem Girl’s Chorus, Jodi Burns and Dennis Raley in a display of community through song. Purchase tickets and learn more at piedmontchambersingers.org Alternative Champs, Andy Mabe @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.
SATURDAY Touching the art is not only allowed but encouraged at the reception for this exhibit by local photographer Bowman Gray. Thermal-image printing makes for tactile photos showcasing the stories of five employees of IBF Solutions. This method was chosen for the sake of blind art-lovers, in honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Find out more at ifbsolutions.org/events1
Faces of Diversity Kick-Off @ International Civil Rights Center & Museum (GSO), 4 p.m Colombian artist Edwin Gil starts this public art project with a discussion about connection among diversity, featuring a panel of community leaders. Leave your print to be a part of the final art piece — a collective permanent installation to be displayed in the Greensboro Cultural Center. Learn more about the project and events on Facebook.
Charlotte-based band Alternative Champs takes the stage with Andy Mabe for a night of catchy jams. Alternative Champs’ guitar skills make for a melodic rock-n-roll performance, and Andy Mabe’s one-man show brings a comedic take to concerts. Find the event on Facebook.
Greensboro Jewish Festival @ Temple Emanuel (GSO), 11 a.m.
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Experience the only Jewish festival in the Triad through the afternoon. Taste corned beef, bagels with lox or baked goods, tour the sanctuary, and enjoy educational and cultural exhibits. Shop various vendors or listen to live music and dance. For more information, visit gsojfest.org.
Stellar Circuits @ The Blind Tiger (GSO), 7:30 p.m. Formed in Winston-Salem, Stellar Circuits performs to promote their new album, Ways We Haunt, out Nov. 9. The band takes influence from A Perfect Circle and Rush among others, so the concert is sure to bring both metal and rock to the stage. Learn more at stellarcircuitsmusic. com.
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Open House @ the Carolina Theater (GSO), 1 p.m. Tour the 91-year-old theater to check out all the renovations, including new seating and carpet, and restored paint and plaster. Settle in with refreshments from the updated concessions stand and enjoy live performances from local musicians. Jessica Mashburn hosts acts from Sam Fraizer, Chuck Cotton, AJ Diggs and Turner Battle. Find out more on Facebook.
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Greensboro Pride @ South Elm Street, 11 a.m. The vibrant festivities at this year’s Greensboro Pride feature live performances from drag queens like Sonja Simone and Greensboro musicians Vanessa Ferguson and Ed E. Ruger. Explore the variety of vendors, or the fashion that the celebration brings. Food trucks and a beer garden promise to fuel the partying. Learn more at greensboropride.org.
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Ballot initiative are used to drive voter turnout, provide political cover and, occasionally, get honest feedback form the public on complicated decisions. This year all North Carolina voters will weigh in in six proposed amendments to the state constitution. It’s worth noting that the state constitution has been altered significantly only twice since its initial drafting in 1776. Once in 1868 to abolish slavery and guarantee equal rights to all north Carolinians after the Civil War, and again in 1971 after a study by the NC Bar Association recommended an update to reflect the growing complexities of state and federal government. Forsyth voters have a tax referendum.
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Ballot initiatives: 6 constitutional amendments and 1 tax increase by Brian Clarey
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4. Judicial vacancies This strips the power of appointing empty judge seats away from the governor and the executive branch. Instead it proposes that a commission be appointed by the governor, the legislature and the NC Supreme Court, bringing all three branches of government into the equation. In the interim, the legislature would basically appoint interim judges instead of the governor.
Forsyth sales tax referenda 1. It’s sort of misleading: The county needs to raise funds to cover the cost of a new courthouse. It will come from either this proposed -cent sales-tax increase (25 cents on $100) or a 3.1-cent property tax increase ($46.50 a year on a home valued at $150,000). Basically, the money’s coming from somewhere, either property owners or everyone via a consumption tax. After the courthouse is paid for, 40 percent of the rest of the money is earmarked for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
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3. Income tax cap The state constitution already has a cap on income tax — it’s 10 percent, outlined in Sec. 2(6) of Article V. This drops it to 7 percent. The current rate is about 6 percent.
6. Voter ID “Constitutional amendment to require voters to provide photo identification before voting in person.” It’s worth noting that the General Assembly passed a voter ID bill in 2013, but it was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court. That bill was struck down because , as the court noted, it disenfranchised black voters “with almost surgical precision.” This voter ID provision comes unencumbered with any other restrictions, so it could pass muster with federal courts if it becomes enshrined in our constitution.
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2. Victims’ rights “Constitutional amendment to strengthen protections for victims of crime; to establish certain absolute basic rights for victims; and to ensure the enforcement of these rights.” The initial Crime Victim’s Rights Act was passed in 1998, and then amended by law in 2001. It was further clarified by session law under this very General Assembly in 2017. But victims’ rights are not enshrined in the NC Constitution.
5. Elections and ethics board Instead of the NC Board of Elections, elections would be overseen by this new entity, merging the functions of elections and ethics. Currently, the nine-member BOE has four from each party and a single unaffiliated voter, chosen by the governor from two nominated by the other eight members of the board. The new configuration will have just four from each party, all selected by the General Assembly, removing the governor from the process.
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1. Hunting and fishing The text of this one is vague: “Constitutional Amendment protecting the right of the people to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife.” No mention of how or why. Hunting and fishing are protected in this state under several laws, with regulations on weaponry, game seasons and safety.
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THE 2018 VOTER GUIDE
If you view Donald Trump as an existential threat to democracy and civilization — and we think a lot of you do — then the 2018 midterms are literally a referendum on whether the president should be given unfettered power to pursue his corrupt, oligarchic, anti-immigrant, anti-woman and anti-Muslim agenda, or whether Democrats should take control of Congress to create an effective counterweight. Even conservative columnist George Will argues that the Republicans needs to lose the midterm elections in order to save democracy. Roughly two-thirds of voters in Guilford County who reside in the 13th Congressional District hold the power to determine whether one seat in the House remains in Republican hands or shifts into the Democratic column. FiveThirtyEight.com gives Republican Ted Budd a slender 1.8 points over Democrat Kathy Manning. Of course, there is a Green Party candidate and a Libertarian party candidate in the mix to throw off any reliable prognostication. Similarly, the outcome of the Forsyth County Commissioner race will likely determine whether the governing body stays a moderate course or reverts back to conservative rule. Although they have an uphill battle, there are Democratic candidates in the at-large and suburban District 2 race challenging Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools’ “School Choice” assignment plan, which is widely blamed for re-segregating the state’s fourth-largest public school system. Voters in Guilford County are also electing new county commissioners and school board members. Every single state legislative race is contested this year, with only four Democratic pickups needed across the state to break the Republican supermajority in the House. Do you care about Medicaid expansion, charter schools, teacher raises and Confederate monuments? They pretty much all hinge on which party controls the state legislature. Other contentious issues like voter ID will be directly decided by voters across the state in the form of referenda. There’s a high-profile state Supreme Court race, which is important because the courts increasingly have the final say over virtually any consequential piece of legislation that comes out of the General Assembly. Early voting started on Wednesday and runs through Saturday, Nov. 3. The sheer length of this voter guide — 93 candidates, and we didn’t include Soil & Water Board positions — might seem overwhelming. Don’t be intimidated. Remember that some races are at large (meaning everyone in the state or county gets a vote), and some are by district. Your first step is to go online and look up your voter registration (which you should do anyway, to make sure you haven’t been purged), and then scroll to the bottom and click on your sample ballot. Then — just a suggestion — go through this voter guide with a pen and flag the races on your ballot. Also, take a look at the websites for the two local boards of elections — forsyth.cc/elections in Forsyth County and guilfordcountync.gov/our-county/ board-of-elections in Guilford County — to look up times and locations for early voting. See you at the polls!
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5th Congressional District Virginia Foxx (R, i): Rep. Virginia Foxx was considered an arch-conservative when first elected to the seat in 2004 and drifted rightward with the party, ascending to the Republican Leadership Conference after the 2012 election. Foxx served as secretary of the House Republican Conference from 2013 to 2016 and remains the chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce where she is hyper-focused on de-regulating the education system. Foxx seeks to roll back reproductive rights, to revoke birthright citizenship, to fund a wall along the southern US border and professes limited-government values. DD Adams (D): Adams’ progressive platform including raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, legalizing marijuana, creating a path to citizenship for eligible DACA recipients, single-payer health-
care and gun-control measures like reinstating the assault-rifle ban. Adams, who is serving her third term on Winston-Salem City Council, is open to impeaching and potentially removing President Trump from office if he is found guilty of high crimes. She has faced an uphill battle in a district that has leaned Republican even prior to the GOP redrawing the state’s electoral map to their benefit in 2011. 6th Congressional District Mark Walker (R, i): Republican incumbent Mark Walker was elected to the 6th Congressional District after Howard Coble retired in 2014. When asked about the recent Supreme Court controversy, Walker said that while it took a lot of bravery for Christine Blasey Ford to come forward, he believes that Brett Kavanaugh “demonstrated the highest level of professionalism” and he’s glad he was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Walker worked with fellow US Rep. Alma Adams, a Democrat, in 2016 to launch a bi-partisan internship program aimed at increasing diversity on Capitol Hill through HBCUs. Walker claims to have made
history in April after raising $650,000 in a single lunch event in Greensboro attended by Vice President Mike Pence. Ryan Watts (D): Twenty years younger than incumbent Mark Walker, Democrat Ryan Watts was born and raised in North Carolina. Watts believes that Kavanaugh’s “temperament and partisanship should have disqualified him from sitting on the highest court in the land.” Watts also says that he is also “looking very diligently at the outcome of the Mueller investigation” and believes that “the Trump campaign willingly engaged with foreign actors illegally.” Watts has raised just over $200,000 according to a Federal Election Commission report from June. 13th Congressional District Ted Budd (R, i): A gun-store and shooting-range owner, Budd first won election to Congress two years ago, breaking out from a crowd of 17 Republicans with a financial assist
from the Club for Growth. As a oneterm congressman, he’s a ripe target for a Democratic pickup. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee endorsed Budd’s challenger in its Red to Blue program way back in December 2017, and the grassroots Swing Left has also been knocking on doors in the district. Budd voted to overturn the Affordable Care Act and for the corporate tax rate cut. He’s a co-sponsor of the Unmasking Antifa Act, which would impose a 15-year prison sentence on anyone who “injures, oppresses, threatens or intimidates any person” while “wearing a mask.” Kathy Manning (D): A former chair of the Jewish Federations of North America and lead fundraiser for the Tanger Performing Arts Center in Greensboro, Manning said she was motivated to run for Congress because she worries that repeal of the Affordable Care Act would result in her daughter losing health coverage because of a pre-existing condition. She supports comprehensive background checks and closing loopholes for gunshow sales. The Budd campaign is
Clark Porter (R): Porter didn’t respond to our questionnaire, and he doesn’t have a campaign website. The posts on his personal Facebook page generally reflect disdain for liberals, Democrats and the news media. Otherwise, Porter’s positions on the issues and plans as a prospective lawmaker are more or less a black box. His name first surfaced in late 2016 as part of a group of Republican officials who filed challenges against Democratic voters in the wake of Gov. Pat McCrory’s unsuccessful reelection bid, and were in turn slapped with a defamation lawsuit.
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District 31 Joyce Krawiec (R, i): A racially caricatured meme of President Obama labeled “monkey” that was posted on Krawiec’s personal Facebook page caused a minor stir for the Republican lawmaker, but she said it had previously escaped her notice. The anti-abortion social conservative, who was first appointed to the District 31 seat to fill a vacancy with the retirement of Pete Brunstetter in 2014, opposes expanding Medicaid, supports
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Michael Garrett (D): Garrett, who garnered nearly 47 percent of the vote in a losing bid against Wade in 2016, may benefit from redrawn lines that make the district friendlier to a Democrat in this year’s rematch. Garrett strongly supports Medicaid expansion, re-prioritizing the needs of the public
District 28 Gladys Robinson (D, i): Democratic Rep. Gladys Robinson, current deputy minority leader of the Senate, was first elected to the District 28 seat in 2010 and won her 2016 bid with nearly 84 percent of the vote. The Democratic leaning district includes heavily urbanized section of Greensboro and High Point. Robinson supports expanding Medicaid, increasing funding for K-12 education, making it easier for local governments and universities to determine the fate of monuments, and legislation that would allow citizens access to police body camera video. She strongly opposed HB2 and voter ID.
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District 26 Jerry W. Tillman (R, i): A retired school administrator and eight-term incumbent who serves as one of the majority whips for the Republican leadership team in the Senate, Tillman indicated to City Beat that he’s not overly concerned about teachers paying out of pocket for school supplies. “No matter how much we fund education, teachers will always try to get the extras their students need,” he wrote. “I don’t see this ever changing much.” On other issues, he supports the current state law prohibiting cities and universities from removing Confederate monuments; supports the current police body-camera law, which requires an order from a superior court judge to obtain access; opposes expanding Medicaid; and supports voter ID. Tillman makes no apologies for the Republican majority’s partisan gerrymandering scheme, even though the courts have ruled it unconstitutional. He drew open laughter from a group of voters at Temple Emanuel in Greensboro on Tuesday when he said, “There’s nothing wrong with partisan election districts.”
District 27 Trudy Wade (R, i): Wade was first elected to the state Senate in 2012 after unsuccessfully attempting to re-open the White Street Landfill as a member of Greensboro City Council. As a state senator, Wade has demonstrated a special aptitude for the Republican majority’s art of preempting local government, with mixed results. The federal courts struck down an effort by Wade to restructure Greensboro’s election system in a manner that would maximize Republican advantage. And although a bill she filed to deprive Guilford County newspapers of revenue from legal ads died, the legislation was later resurrected in gut-and-replace maneuver that passed into law without Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature. Wade declined to return City Beat’s questionnaire, complaining that Senior Editor Jordan Green has never treated her fairly; one irony of her complaint is that City Beat wasn’t affected by Wade’s anti-newspaper legislation.
education system, making it easier for local governments and universities to determine the fate of monuments, and legislation that would allow cities and local law enforcement oversight bodies greater leeway to decide whether to release police body camera video footage. He opposed HB 2 and voter ID.
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JD Wooten (D): Formerly a second lieutenant in the US Air Force, Wooten lives in McLeansville and serves in the intellectual property group at Womble Bond Dickinson. On the issues, he calls HB2 “a regrettable piece of legislation,” opposes the 2015 law that prohibits universities and local governments from removing Confederate monuments, wants more public access to police body-camera video, favors expanding Medicaid, and opposes voter ID.
Bill McCaskill (D): A retired supervisor with Randolph County Department of Social Services, McCaskill did not respond to City Beat’s questionnaire. But in his remarks at the Temple Emanuel candidate forum, he assailed the Republican majority’s tax policy and rollback of environmental regulations. “I personally, if I was in the legislature, would not vote to lower income tax rates and then turn around and raise sales tax and fees that disproportionately affect lower-income people,” McCaskill said. “If I was in the legislature, I personally would not vote to repeal the rules and regulations that have been in place for 40 years to protect our environment. I would especially not underfund the Department of Environmental Quality.”
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Tom Bailey (L): The Libertarian candidate punted on our question about whether candidates believe Justice Brett Kavanaugh or Christine Blasey Ford, but he volunteered: “I think Kavanaugh is an entirely unfit choice for Supreme Court due to his contempt for the Constitution as evidence by his work on the Patriot Act and his support for Bush legalizing torture.” And his response to our question about presidential impeachment reveals a leftward tilt: “Yes, I would consider impeaching Trump for his unauthorized acts of war, his violations of the Bill of Rights and his inhumane treatment of immigrants among other reasons.”
District 24 Rick Gunn (R, i): Gunn has represented Senate District 24 in Alamance County since 2011. The district was recently redrawn to cover roughly a third of Guilford County. The candidate didn’t respond to the City Beat election questionnaire, so it’s hard to know where he stands on the issues. Beyond the claim that Gunn is “North Carolina’s jobs senator,” his campaign website isn’t much help.
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Robert Corriher (G): A new law passed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly, one that lowered the signature threshold for ballot access, allowed the Green Party to put forward a nominee for any race in the state. The 13th is an interesting choice, since it’s one of two or three Republican-held districts where Democratic challengers are within striking distance. A labor organizer and selfdescribed “socialist,” Corriher says he’s running “to build independent power for working people,” and a platform of universal healthcare, tuition-free higher education and ending the war on drugs.
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running attack ads against Manning over a taxpayer-supported parking deck that would benefit a hotel project involving the candidate’s husband. Manning has pointed out that she has no role in the project, which is her husband’s undertaking, and says the couple has pledged to donate any profits from the deal to the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro. Despite Manning’s superior fundraising record and support from national Democratic groups, most polling shows that the district favors Budd, with FiveThirtyEight giving it to him by 1.8 points.
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voter ID, opposes giving local municipalities and universities authority to decide the fate of Confederate monuments, and supports the current police body-camera law. John Motsinger Jr. (D): The name John Motsinger Jr. might look familiar: His father ran for the seat on the Democratic ticket in 2014, and his mother, Elisabeth Motsinger, serves on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board. The junior Motsinger, who works as a lighting-andrigging technician for traveling theater shows, said he’s running because, “I don’t think the issues of my generation are being addressed, and they’re not being fixed for the long term.” Motsinger favors giving local municipalities control over whether to remove Confederate monuments, supports Medicaid expansion, and opposes voter ID. District 32 Paul Lowe Jr. (D, i): Democratic Senator Paul Lowe has held the District 32 seat since 2015, when he replaced Democratic Sen. Earline Parmon, who resigned and has since passed away. This is the first election in which Lowe has faced a challenger in the heavily Democratic district, which covers Winston-Salem. Lowe, who has sponsored many bills in the past year, including one on universal voter registration and a revision of marijuana laws, both of which died in committee, believes that HB2 was “bad and regrettable” for the state and that Confederate monuments should be removed from state property. He also believes in expanding Medicaid and increasing funding for schools. Eric Henderson (R): Henderson did not return our questionnaire, but an Oct. 13 tweet, “Jobs, not mobs,” seems to take subtle aim at both Democratic protesters who opposed the appointment of Justice Kavanaugh and antiracist activists in Chapel Hill. In a recent interview with the WinstonSalem Journal, Henderson indicated he wants to increase alternatives to public school, continue to reduce tax rates, and increase criminal penalties for people
who sell crack cocaine. This isn’t his first election: Henderson unsuccessfully challenged Democrat Jeff MacIntosh for the Northwest Ward seat on Winston-Salem City Council in 2016. NC House District 57 Ashton Clemmons (D): The newly drawn District 57 offers an easy pickup for Democrats, and Ashton Clemmons, a former assistant superintendent, is probably the party’s dream candidate. She marched with teachers in Raleigh in May to call for increased pay and additional funding. Clemmons opposes charter schools, arguing that they do not provide equal access to students from families with limited financial resources. “Charter schools do not have to provide transportation for children,” she says. “Our district is 67 percent kids that qualify for free and reduced lunch. So you cannot tell me that in a district that is two thirds where kids need help to have their food provided, it’s equal access when charter schools don’t provide that and they don’t provide transportation.” Troy Lawson (R): As chairman of the Guilford County Republican Party and a board member of Gate City Charter Academy, it’s no surprise that Lawson is diametrically opposed to Clemmons on charter schools. He contends that the popularity of the charter school argues against Clemmons’ position that it’s not accessible. “I challenge her and anyone else to come to the drive line at 7:20 in the morning and see all those parents — hundreds of them — waiting to let their children go to a school that the other side says there’s no access to.” The fact that Lawson is black isn’t likely to persuade many voters in northeast Greensboro that the voter ID initiative he and his party is pushing isn’t racist. The federal courts have ruled otherwise. District 58 Amos Quick (D, i): A former vice chair of the Guilford County School Board, Quick won election to the state House in 2016, earning the distinction of Democratic freshman
vice chair in his first term. He has introduced 117 bills, demonstrating a political philosophy he calls, “Show the people the laws you would pass as the majority.” Legislation proposed by Quick includes a law prohibiting racial profiling, a measure allowing cities and counties to create police review boards, funding for free lunch and free breakfast to all students in K-12 schools, automatic expunction of a person’s record if they’re wrongly convicted and ultimately exonerated, and a bill to provide funding to help corner stores install refrigeration so they can sell fresh fruits and vegetables. Peter Boykin (R): Peter Boykin launched “Gays for Trump” — chronicled in a short doc by the same name — during the 2016 campaign. The concept was a hit — a ready-made rebuke to anyone who would deign to point out that Trump’s Supreme Court nominations will set back the cause of equality — but the novelty seems to have worn off since the election. Boykin has increasingly run in alt-right circles, expressing admiration for disgraced media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, and in June 2017 in Raleigh he emceed a “March Against Sharia,” which promoted Islamophobic themes and drew members of the white supremacist group Identity Evropa. We’ll see if running for office revives the flagging “Gays for Trump” brand. District 59 Jon Hardister (R, i): Perhaps no GOP lawmaker was stung more by the backlash against HB 2 — a 2016 law preventing transgender people from using the bathroom that accords with their gender identity, which led to a corporate boycott against North Carolina — than Jon Hardister. “The legislature made a mistake,” Hardister said. “We went too far. That’s why we corrected it.” Otherwise, the three-term House member who serves as majority whip, is proud of the Republican record, particularly touting tax cuts and business growth. He supports a 2015 law that prevents local municipalities and universities from removing Confederate monuments, arguing that the policy needs to be uniform across the state. He said he defers to law enforcement on a law that requires an order by a superior court judge to obtain access to police body
camera video. He opposes the expansion of Medicaid and supports voter ID. Steven A. Buccini (D): A Grimsley High School graduate, Steven Buccini studied at UC Berkeley and works as a software-engineering consultant. He said the passage of HB 2 in 2016 was the culmination of a series of bad laws passed by the Republican majority that inspired him to run for office. Having worked in Silicon Valley, Buccini says HB 2, which was scaled back the following year, is only one of many embarrassing policy positions — also including the state prohibition against removing Confederate monuments, the state’s failure to expand Medicaid, and the state’s No. 39 ranking on teacher pay — that are a deterrent to investment. District 60 Cecil Brockman (D, i): A High Point native first elected to the state House in 2014, Brockman opposes voter ID as “a discriminatory tactic meant to suppress voting rights.” He supports expanding Medicaid. He also supports bringing greater transparency to police body-camera video, including creating a process whereby city council or a special review board could provide access “so the public has a representative in these matters advocating on their behalf.” Brockman says local governments and universities should have discretion over whether to keep monuments, and even goes a step further, saying, “I believe Confederate monuments should be taken down as they glorify people who fought to tear this country apart over their desire to own slaves.” Kurt Collins (R): If Collins’ name is familiar, it’s likely because he ran for the District 3 seat on Greensboro City Council in 2015, losing to Democrat Justin Outling. Now a resident of Jamestown, this year Collins is making a play for state House. Collins didn’t return our questionnaire, but on his campaign website he celebrates tax cuts enacted by the Republican majority in Raleigh, expresses support for charter schools and private schools, and says he wants to ensure that state troopers receive adequate pay while putting more police officers in schools.
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Terri LeGrand (D): A director in Wake Forest University’s student financial aid office, Terri LeGrand grossed the highest campaign receipts of any candidate in Forsyth
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District 74 Debra Conrad (R, i): A former Forsyth County commissioner who was first elected to state House in 2012, Conrad touts her Moravian heritage as the foundation of her conservatism. She sponsored a 2015 bill that made it unlawful for government agencies to accept alternative IDs — a strike at the FaithAction ID — and has proven to be a consistent advocate for additional restrictions on immigrants. In an election in which education takes center stage, Conrad argues that corporate and personal income tax rate cuts ushered in by Republican are boosting the economy and positioning the state to make teacher pay more competitive.
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Scott Arnold (R): While he’s gained some political insight during his years as a chief election judge and as a campaign volunteer, this November will be Scott Arnold’s first time on a ballot. A Republican who currently works as a landscape architect, Arnold is running for the state House on a platform of improving school safety, environmentalism and tackling the opioid crisis. When asked about the removal of
Reginald Reid (R): A regular at Forsyth County Republican Party events, Reid made the gutsy move of running against the late and legendary Earline Parmon in Senate District 32 in 2012. This year he’s undertaking the similarly quixotic quest of opposing all-star Democrat Derwin Montgomery in the heavily Democratic leaning District 72 in northeast Winston-Salem. Although he probably intended it ironically, the candidate who can be seen posing with Confederate monuments on the Confederate Memorial Tour Facebook page, posted on his own page on Monday: “I’m a certified Uncle Tom by trade.” In response to a question about whether local governments should have the authority to remove monuments, Reid says, “History should not be removed. History should be discussed.” He says HB 2 was “a public safety issue,” not a civil rights issue, opposes Medicaid expansion, and supports voter ID.
William Stinson (D): A Democratic farmer who has unsuccessfully run for office three times before, William Stinson replaced Aaron Cave, who won the Democratic primary, on the ballot after Cave passed away. Stinson called HB 2 “the most embarrassing piece of legislation passed in the last 50 years” and believes that the constitutional amendment about voter IDs makes it harder “for the average North Carolinian to vote.” On his website Stinson says that his primary reason for entering the race was to “to fight against the inadequate funding of education by the North Carolina General Assembly.”
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District 71 Evelyn Terry (D, i): A former Winston-Salem City Council member, Terry was first elected in the heavily Democratic leaning District 71 — covering the southeast quadrant of Winston-Salem — in 2012. Terry says she supports expanding Medicaid and believes that HB 2, or the “bathroom bill” was “invasive and cruel” and “[infringed] upon individual differences of human beings because of how they were born.” Terry also advocates for re-examining the formula for the state’s educational funding. Over the course of her three terms in the House, Terry has experienced frustration as a member of the party locked out of power.
District 72 Derwin Montgomery (D, i): After filing to run for reelection in February, Democratic incumbent Ed Hanes abruptly announced his retirement in August to pursue an unspecified professional opportunity. At Hanes’ prompting, the Democratic Party appointed Derwin Montgomery, a three-term WinstonSalem City Council member. As a city council member, Montgomery said he challenged the local legislative delegation’s support of a 2015 bill that made police-body camera video a personnel record and required a superior court judge to sign off before it can be viewed by the public. “When these issues arise in communities, it’s the cities and town leadership that gets the calls from the public wanting to know what’s going on, not the state leaders,” Montgomery notes. Similarly, he favors local control over the disposition of Confederate monuments. He supports expansion of Medicaid and opposes voter ID.
District 73 Lee Zachary (R, i): Recent changes to the House map drew the western tip of Forsyth County into District 73, which also covers the entirety of Yadkin County. The district has been represented by Lee Zachary, a local lawyer, since 2015. Zachary, who does not have a campaign website, did not respond to our questionnaire.
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District 62 John Faircloth (R, i): A former police chief and former High Point City Council member, Faircloth shepherded a 2015 bill that created a restrictive police body camera policy requiring an order from a superior court judge to obtain access to footage with a more progressive measure that allows activists
Martha Shafer (D): A healthcare executive who retired from Cone Health, Martha Shafer is part of a cohort of candidates that represents the Democrats’ best hope for cracking the Republican supermajority in the House. As a testimony to her campaign’s momentum and the candidate’s networking ability, Shafer had out-raised her opponent 10 to 1 as of late June. She favors a less restrictive police body camera video policy. And not surprisingly, given her professional background, Shafer supports expanding Medicaid, both to provide care for additional people and to bring more jobs to the state.
Confederate statues by universities or local governments, Arnold answered that he believes that “the topplings are done by mobsters” who should be “arrested and prosecuted for destruction of property.” Arnold also supported a 2015 law that restricts police body camera footage, and said that voting provisionally was “not a problem” when asked about a constitutional amendment that would require voters to have voter ID.
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Alissa Batts (R): Batts said during a recent candidate forum that she credits the Republican leadership in Raleigh with “making the hard decisions to stick with a controlled budget,” resulting in a healthy “rainy day fund” that’s available to assist those recovering from Tropical Storm Florence. She said she differs with her opponent on the role of elected representatives in government. “I believe the representative should be a voice of the people and not of the party,” Batts said. “And when I looked at Ms. Harrison’s record, I realized that I couldn’t hear my voice in her votes.” As for her own positions, Batts said she doesn’t have a solution to the controversy over Confederate monuments, but doesn’t “agree with mob rule or anarchy.” She doesn’t have a position on the current police body camera policy. She opposes Medicaid expansion, arguing it will “add tremendous costs” and make emergency rooms “even more flooded than they are today.” She personally supports the voter ID requirement.
to dispense clean needles to intravenous drug users. He also exercises significant power in the House as chairman of the Appropriations Committee. Despite his law enforcement bona fides, Faircloth failed to obtain the endorsement of the NC Police Benevolent Association, the organization that represents police officers across the state, in this election.
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District 61 Pricey Harrison (D, i): First elected to the state House in 2004, Harrison is the longest serving legislator from either the Guilford or Forsyth delegations, and has been in Raleigh long enough to remember what it was like to be a progressive lawmaker fighting a centrist Democrat majority, before the Republicans took control in 2011. She criticized HB 142, which replaced HB 2, as creating “uncertainty about whether transgender people could be barred from using restrooms in government buildings, including schools.” She calls for the repeal of a 2015 law barring municipalities and universities from making their own decisions about removing Confederate monuments. She favors making it easier for individuals and local governments to obtain access to the police body-worn video, favors the expansion of Medicaid, and opposes voter ID.
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or Guilford county, and outraised her Republican opponent more than 2 to 1. LeGrand argues that the Republican majority has misplaced its priorities by focusing on personal and corporate tax rate cuts instead of funding education. She opposes a 2015 law that prohibits local governments and universities from deciding for themselves whether to remove Confederate monuments, supports increased public access to police body camera video, supports Medicaid expansion and opposes voter ID. District 75 Donny Lambeth (R, i): A former hospital administrator and Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County School Board member first elected to the state House in 2012, Lambeth led the effort to revamp the state’s Medicaid system, but the lawmaker has maintained demonstrated lockstep conformity with fellow Republicans by refusing to expand Medicaid, leaving hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without coverage and billions in federal dollars that could be used to create thousands of jobs. Yet Lambeth’s politics aren’t uniformly conservative: He cosponsored the bipartisan Corner Store Initiative, a 2017 bill that would have provided funds to help corner stores install refrigeration equipment so they could sell produce in food deserts. Dan Besse (D): A member of Winston-Salem City Council since 2005, Besse ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 2008. But this is perhaps his most audacious move: Responding to President Trump’s raft of anti-immigrant executive orders in January 2017, Besse drafted a largely symbolic “welcoming city” resolution, but the Democratic majority on city council withdrew support for the measure after conservative lawmakers led by Rep. Debra Conrad and Sen. Joyce Krawiec threatened to withhold state funding. As a city leader hemmed in by state government, Besse made the logical move — running for state legislature. He’s challenging Republican Donny Lambeth, who quickly dubbed him “Sanctuary City” Dan. Besse calls HB 2 “a product of bigotry and political opportunism.” He favors giving local governments control over the fate of Confederate monuments. He supports expansion of Medicaid and opposes voter ID. And he believes local governments should have the authority to release police body-camera video.
Forsyth County Sheriff Bill Schatzman (R, i): A former FBI agent, Schatzman came into office in 2003, after Republican voters involuntarily retired the scandal-plagued Ron Barker, whose son, a deputy, shot himself with his own weapon in 1999 and blamed it on two phantom Hispanic men. Schatzman has promoted an image of professionalism over the course of his four terms, but the office hasn’t always run smoothly. In 2013, the county made a $96,000 settlement to a former deputy who was fired after taking leave to serve in military combat in Iraq. And since 2013, county commissioners and members of the public alike have raised concerns about medical-related deaths of inmates in the jail. Bobby Kimbrough (D): A retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Kimbrough warns voters that gangs, violent crime and, most importantly, drug sales are on the rise. He wants to create a narcotic unit, and talks about addressing “inmate living conditions” and medical care at the jail. Kimbrough, who dispatched two Democratic opponents during the primary, made a minor stir early in the campaign writing about his wife’s death from an apparent opioid overdose in 2005. During the primary, he declined to explain why the vast majority of the start-up funding for his campaign came from individuals in the video sweepstakes industry and how he would handle enforcement as sheriff. Since then, the candidate has doubled his receipts, and his donor base has broadened to include insurance, law enforcement and higher education. Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes (R, i): Barnes was first elected sheriff in the red-wave election of 1994. The six-term incumbent is a deft political operator who flagrantly endorses other Republican candidates and yet has repeatedly gotten re-elected in a Democratic-leaning county without much trouble. In 2016, Barnes appeared with Donald Trump and has sometimes voiced tough-on-immigration rhetoric,
but after Trump’s election, he declined to honor ICE detainers. As such, Barnes is among a cohort of red-state sheriffs across the country who have complicated Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ pledge to crack down on “sanctuary” jurisdictions. Barnes allowed the sheriff’s office’s accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies to lapse, saying, “The only thing CALEA does is give you a scapegoat when things go wrong.” Danny Rogers (D): A former deputy, Rogers is seeking a rematch with Barnes, who bested him in the 2014 election, 56.1 percent to 43.9 percent. Aside from Rogers’ pledge to restore the office’s accreditation with CALEA and reinstate the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or DARE program, there’s not a great deal policy-wise to distinguish the Democratic challenger from the Republican incumbent. There’s no debate over cooperation with immigration authorities, jail visitation policies or the provision of healthcare in jail. Parts of Rogers’ platform conveys a “when did you stop beating your wife” implication against Barnes, such as: “Create safer outcomes with community policing; rebuild law enforcement and citizen relationships; reduce officer attrition rates; and develop equitable employment practices.” Meanwhile, Barnes has turned the tables on Rogers in an almost literal sense, reminding reporters and voters about Rogers’ criminal record, which he has declined to discuss in specifics. If anything is clear, it’s that these two guys really don’t like each other. Forsyth County Commission At large Ted Kaplan (D, i): Kaplan, the incumbent Democratic candidate for Forsyth County’s commission at-large seat, originally won the seat in 2006, serving until 2010, when he was beat by Republican Bill Whiteheart. Kaplan then won the seat back in 2014. A centrist, Kaplan has been a state politician for more than four decades after being elected to the state House from 1976 to 1982, and then serving in the state Senate for the next 10 years. After serving on the Forsyth County Commission for a total of eight years, Kaplan says he’s most proud of the economic development initiatives undertaken over the past four years.
Buddy Collins (R): A Republican lawyer in Kernersville, Collins has been involved in education since he was first appointed to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board in 1996. In 2013, Collins was appointed by thenGov. Pat McCrory to the State Board of Education despite staunch opposition from now deceased state Rep. Paul Luebke (D-Durham) and others who cited Collins’s history of anti-LGBT stances such as voting no on a 2009 motion approved by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board to add “sexual orientation” to a list of characteristics prohibited under the district’s bullying and harassment policies. Keenen Altic (G): Brought into the political fold after collecting signatures for the Green Party in 2016, 33-year-old electrical technician Keenen Altic, is the newest member on the ballot. Running on a progressive platform, Altic says he is running to create rent control tied to wages, stop the county jail from locking up immigrants, demilitarize the sheriff’s office and create a property-tax exemption for working-class people. Altic is a graduate from Cape Fear Community College with an associate’s degree in sustainable technology, and this is his first time running for office. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board At large Robert Barr (R, i): First elected to the school board in 2014, Barr’s positions are comfortably within bounds for his political party. He takes a noncommittal stance on community advocates’ demands for replacement of Ashley Elementary, which has struggled with mold infestation, noting only that the district has spent $1.5 million to replace the HVAC system. He says if Forsyth County voters approve a ¼-cent sales tax, a portion will be used to fund teacher pay supplements. And he backs the current School Choice assignment plan, arguing that it’s supported by a majority of parents across all demographics.
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Leah H. Crowley (R): Crowley supports the School Choice plan. “I do think when parents have a choice, there’s more buy-in,” she says. “When you have neighborhood schools it’s easier for kids to get involved.” And, like Hayes, Crowley supports using public funds to build a new stadium for RJ Reynolds High School. “I am
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Lida Calvert Hayes (R, i): A painting contractor, Hayes was selected by the school board to fill a vacancy left when Jeannie Metcalf resigned in 2015, so this election is her first opportunity to win the seat by going before voters in the district. Hayes possesses the rare ability to appeal to all constituencies in the polarized era of Trump, campaigning with the future president in 2016 and showing up to talk to a group opposed to the School Choice plan at a recent candidate forum. She said at that forum that she favors School Choice, but added this caveat in her response to our questionnaire: “I do not like the fact that all students, due to socioeconomic conditions, do not have a way to be included in some of these benefits; this bothers me greatly. Socioeconomic factors beyond the control of
Lori Goins Clark (R, i): Part of the new cohort of Republican leadership, Clark succeeded her mother, Janes Goins, on the board in 2014. Clark supports the School Choice plan. But with the district building new schools to accommodate growth, Clark says the board has an “opportunity to look at zones and assignment lines.” She says it’s not realistic to “break up” concentrations of poverty by rebalancing school populations. Instead, Clark argues, “our society should begin to tackle poverty — breaking that cycle — outside of the schools, inside of churches and communities and businesses.” She goes on to say that the district should look for community partners to develop programs to address poverty by incentivizing marriage. Clark says the effort to come up with a plan to bring the teacher pay supplement in line with the other four large school districts in the state has taken longer than she would like, but she asks “teachers to simply believe that this board has made increasing the local supplement a priority.” Clark acknowledges that replacement of Ashley Elementary was dropped from the 2016 bond list “because the needs are always much more than can be met in any one bond.” She adds, “Ashley was indeed discussed and considered, but because there were other pieces to a new Ashley school still undecided, we did remove it, but included the design fees of the future building to show support for it.”
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Timothy Brooker (R): Brooker says he supports the current assignment plan, writing, “While this plan is not perfect, it is far more preferable than an assignment plan that balances schools by socio-economic status or race. My focus would be on improving these low-performing schools so that they become the ‘choice’ of many of our parents and students.” But he’s even more noncommittal about Ashley Elementary than current board members, who have pledged to build a new school with funds from the next bond. Brooker writes, “If mold/health issues continue at Ashley then I would be in favor of adding Ashley back into the mix for future replacement. In the interim, I would advocate for Ashley students/teachers to be able to attend/work at other schools if capacity or teaching needs can be met.” On the matter of the teacher pay supplement, Brooker says the school board should ask the county for sufficient funds to bring its rank in line with the county’s status as the fourth most populous in the state.
our kids shouldn’t keep disadvantaged students in failing schools.” Hayes says the school board should ask the county for more money to pay for teacher salary supplements so the school system doesn’t continue to fall behind other large districts. She says she looks “forward to Ashley having a new school as soon as monies are available. We are looking at ways to make this happen pertaining to land now.”
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Jim Smith (R): Smith did not respond to City Beat’s questionnaire, but at a candidate forum in Clemmons earlier this month he responded to a question about the School Choice plan by saying education leaders should study what other districts have tried and what works before undertaking any
Andrea Pace Bramer (D): A parent with professional experience in the financial industry, Andrea Bramer is running on a “throw the bums out” platform. She opposes the School Choice plan, noting that the school board is currently defending itself against a civil rights complaint. She says the Choice plan, where one zone has no elementary schools with greater than 50 percent reading proficiency and another zone with three schools over 70 percent proficiency, is indefensible. She calls it a “shock and disappointment” that the current board didn’t ask the county for money to increase the teacher pay supplement. And she faults the board for its handling of mold problems at Ashley Elementary, writing, “Turning a blind eye to the community and waiting until shamed in the press and on social media is completely irresponsible and negligent.”
District 2 Dana Caudill Jones (R, i): A former member of the Kernersville Board of Aldermen, Jones was part of a new wave of Republican leadership elected to the Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County School Board in 2014, although elevation was more a matter of generational succession than change. Her colleagues elected Jones to chair the board. She supports the current School Choice assignment plan. But Jones said in response to a City Beat election questionnaire that she acknowledges the current plan “needs revisions.” She says the opening of a new middle school in Lewisville provides “the perfect opportunity to start community conversations around choice, evaluate our current zones and collectively improve our plan. My vision is an expanded choice plan that offers more options for students, better balances all of our schools to reflect the demographics of Forsyth County.” The board chair pledges that a working group of board members, teachers and county officials will have a plan in place by January to bring Winston-Salem/ Forsyth County Schools back into the top five districts for teacher pay supplements. And like other incumbents, Jones responds to concerns about mold at Ashley Elementary by noting that funds for a new school design were included in the 2016 bond package, and the district is currently working to secure land for a new school.
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Deanna Kaplan (D): The retirement of Republican Marilyn Parker opens up the third at-large seat on the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School Board. Parker returned to the board in January 2017 to fill the unexpired term of Mark Johnson, who was elected state superintendent of public instruction in 2016. Kaplan ran for District 2 in 2014 and fell short of the votes needed to win one of the four seats. She often campaigns with her husband, Ted Kaplan, who is running for reelection to the Forsyth County Commission. Kaplan says on her campaign website that she supports maintaining the School Choice plan “with some modifications to ensure that we are not packing poverty students in single schools,” and supports increasing teacher pay supplements. Kaplan did not return our questionnaire, and her website doesn’t address the challenges at Ashley Elementary.
major overhauls. In contrast to fellow Republican Tim Brooker, who said the school board should ask for funds for a teacher pay supplement and figure out how to pay for it later, Smith said the county needs to come up with a sustainable way to increase teacher pay before proceeding.
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Elisabeth Motsinger (D, i): Since her election in 2006, Elisabeth Motsinger has been the only Democrat able to wrangle the votes to win a county-wide seat on the board. As such, she’s never had the opportunity to govern in the majority on the Republican-dominated, conservative board. She argues that it’s time to revisit the 1990s-era School Choice assignment plan, which has been faulted for reinstituting segregation, and says it’s imperative that the school board ask the Forsyth County Commission for about $6 million to pay for a teacher salary supplement that would be equitable with neighboring Guilford County. But Motsinger downplays any prior commitment by the school board to replace Ashley Elementary, while stating that she asked for a $1 million planning grant so Ashley will be the first school to be built on the next bond.
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absolutely in support of this project,” she says. “This is an access and equity issue,” adding that low-wealth students at the vaunted high school are shut out of athletics and other after-school activities because they lack transportation. Rebecca Nussbaum (D): Nussbaum, who serves as the director of career development at UNC School of the Arts, says the current School Choice doesn’t work. Taking an initiative launched by WinstonSalem Mayor Allen Joines as a model, Nussbaum says the community needs a “Forsyth County Education Thought Force” that can address an array of issues, including “how to meaningfully and intentionally have balance in our schools.” She says the school board needs to advocate at both the county and state level for additional funds to pay teachers. She calls Ashley Elementary “a prime example of a building in need of replacement.” Marilynn Baker (D): A former instructor at Forsyth Tech and longtime public education advocate, Baker participated in the Moral Mondays protests in 2013, and joined teachers in Raleigh during a massive protest calling for increased educational investment in March. Baker calls the School Choice assignment plan “broken,” and calls for “a communityinvolved strategic assessment of our current situation and an objective analysis of viable options to improve the accessibility and quality of meaningful choices.” Baker says it’s “a tragedy” that Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools teacher pay supplement has fallen from the Top 10 five years ago to No. 26 and last among urban counties. She says the school district can’t expect to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers with a supplement roughly $1,000 below neighboring Guilford County. On the matter of Ashley Elementary, Baker says the district needs improved transparency between the school board and the community.
NC Supreme Court Barbara Jackson (R, i): Jackson has served on the Supreme Court since 2011, and although she’s one of two Republicans on the ballot, she notes that she’s the only one with the endorsement of the state Republican Party. Jackson served as general counsel for the state Department of Labor from 2001 to 2004, and has earned the endorsement of Republican Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry, along with former Chief Justice Burley Mitchell. Jackson says she’s centering her reelection campaign on three priorities: adherence to the rule of law, fair and impartial justice, and increasing the utilization of technology. Anita Earls (D): It would be hard to imagine a brighter light in progressive jurisprudence in North Carolina than Anita Earls. A former assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Clinton, Earls went on to found the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which fought the White Street Landfill and helped bring a civil rights complaint against the Greensboro Police Department for its treatment of Jorge Cornell and the North Carolina Latin Kings. But no issue has catapulted the coalition’s legal work to national renown quite as much as its successful challenge to state legislative redistricting plans, which the courts found to be unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. Earls has earned the endorsement of no less than former Attorney General Eric Holder. Chris Anglin (R): Chris Anglin changed his voter registration from Democrat to Republican, exploiting the weird election system devised by the Republican-controlled legislature, which made judicial elections partisan while eliminating the primary. In response, Republican lawmakers tried to get Anglin thrown off the ballot, but the courts upheld his candidacy. There’s no love lost. Anglin says he’s running “to make the point that it is a mistake to be the only state in 100 years to make our judicial races partisan.” He charges that
the new law undermines the independence of the judiciary and makes judges beholden to political parties. NC Court of Appeals Arrowood seat John S. Arrowood (D, i): John Arrowood of Charlotte has been appointed to the Court of Appeals by two separate Democratic governors, first by Gov. Mike Easley in 2007 and then by Gov. Roy Cooper in 2017. He says he pledges “to be an independent member of the judiciary and to administer justice equally without favoritism to any party or to the state consistent with the constitution and laws of North Carolina and the United States Constitution.” Andrew T. Heath (R): Andrew Heath of Raleigh currently serves on the superior court bench. He’s a former board member of the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, a former chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, a former secretary of the Council of State and a former professor of legal and regulatory environment of business at Campbell University. Calabria seat Toby Hampson (D): The retirement of Judge Ann Marie Calabria sets off a three-way race for succession. Hampson’s first job out of law school in 2002 was clerking for the Court of Appeals, where he served under judges K. Edward Greene, Wanda Bryant and Bob C. Hunter. Since then, he’s worked in private practice handling cases involving family law, worker’s compensation, business disputes, real estate, personal injury and criminal matters. Hampson pledges to maintain civility, impartiality and judicial independence on the court.
Jefferson G. Griffin (R): Although Griffin is one of two Republicans on the ballot for the Calabria seat, he’s the only one who has received the endorsement of the state Republican Party. After serving as a prosecutor in the Wake County District Attorney’s office, Griffin became a district court judge. He also serves as a JAG officer in the North Carolina Army National Guard, where he advises on rules of engagement and law of war. The candidate says he believes “in the American rule of law, protecting our Constitution, judicial independence, access to justice, civic education and impartial courts.” Sandra Alice Ray (R): Ray, a district court judge in Wilmington, takes it as a point of pride that she’s not endorsed by any party. “I believe as our constitutions say, in the sovereignty of the people — not the politicians and bureaucrats,” Ray writes. “We can never forget that all the power of the government is invested in and derived from ‘the people’ and is founded upon ‘our will only.’ I want to serve on your court of appeals to preserve the self-evident rights our constitutions guarantee.” Elmore seat Allegra Katherine Collins (D): Judge Rick Elmore of Greensboro is stepping down from the court, alongside his colleague Judge Calabria. Like Toby Hampson, Allegra Collins clerked for the Court of Appeals. Now, she teaches at Campbell Law School, where she obtained her law degree. Collins carries endorsements from the state Democratic Party, the NC AFL-CIO and the Replacements Limited PAC. Collins tells voters: “I am an analytical thinker, thorough researcher, articulate writer, and independent arbiter, and I will use my experience and expertise to be a judge on the NC Court of Appeals that all citizens can rely upon to judge fairly and accurately.”
The meeting will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church located at 5120 Burlington Road in Greensboro from 4-7 p.m. The public may attend at any time during the meeting hours. Please note there will be no formal presentation. At the meeting there will be maps of the proposed plans as well as project team members who will be available to answer your questions and receive feedback. All comments will be taken into consideration as the project progresses. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail no later than November 1, 2018. As information becomes available, it may be viewed at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: https://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings/.
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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed widening of U.S. 70 (Burlington Road) from Mt. Hope Church Road (S.R. 3045) to Birch Creek Road (S.R. 3175) in Guilford County. The primary purpose of this project is to reduce traffic congestion and improve mobility along the U.S. 70 roadway.
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Michael Monaco Sr. (L): Although Michael Monaco currently works in product development for Mansa Electrical, he was admitted to the bar in 2000, and served as a partner in a small law firm through 2015. He says it’s paramount that the Court of Appeals remain objective and independent, especially in disputes between the branches of government. As a Libertarian, Monaco argues that he would be immune from political pressure, either from the Democrat-controlled executive branch or the Republican-controlled legislative branch.
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Chuck Kitchen (R): Chuck Kitchen’s most high-profile case was likely defending Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson against the US Justice Department, when the Obama administration accused the sheriff of racial profiling through the 287(g) program. Johnson won the case, although a federal judge admonished the sheriff for the use of anti-Latinx slurs by his staff, and the federal government dropped the county from the 287(g) program. Kitchen argues that you shouldn’t be a judge until you’ve litigated cases.
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Manning vs. Corriher: The left’s moment of truth
Perhaps no one issue more embodies the United States’ slide into barbarity under President Trump than the intentionally created crisis that unfolded at the southern border in June, with families fleeing violence in Central America presenting themselves to immigraby Jordan Green tion officials, and seeing children, including toddlers, ripped away from parents, without any process to ensure reunification. Many of these children are at the most sensitive age of development, and yanking them away from their parents and other caring adults does incalculable and irreversible harm. Some of the parents were deported without any financial ability to recover their children, who are scattered in remote detention facilities across the United States. Some of the children have been shifted into foster care. The president opened his campaign by demonizing immigrants from south of the border in the most vicious and degrading terms. The panoply of policies enacted since his inauguration have inflicted undeniable material harm on immigrant families. Which brings us to the midterm election. Early voting opened across North Carolina on Wednesday. There’s an argument that — endorsed in our voter guide (page 8) — the most effective check on the reckless, corrupt and gratuitously cruel administration in the White House is for voters to return control of Congress to the Democrats. After all, the Republican Congress has become little more than a rubber stamp for executive power. And the successful nominations of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court ensure a conservative judiciary that is effectively in Trump’s pocket. If you’re following this logic, the Democratic majority is everything, and the specific Democratic candidates are kind of an afterthought. The voters in the 13th Congressional District, which covers two thirds of Guilford County, have the power to flip one of the 24 seats Democrats need to retake the House. The website FiveThirtyEight.com currently gives Republican incumbent Ted Budd a 1.8-point advantage over Democratic challenger Kathy Manning. If only it were a matter of choosing between Budd and Manning; there are two other candidates on the ballot — a self-described “socialist” named Robert Corriher on the Green Party ticket whose platform resembles Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and an anti-war Libertarian named Tom Bailey. There’s another important calculation. In a word: It’s the policy, stupid. If you accept that the Trump administration’s human-rights violations at the southern border is the signature issue in this election, then you have to reckon with the inconvenient reality that immigration is not necessarily the Democratic Party’s strong suit. Consider the contrast between Manning’s and Corriher’s positions, as reflected in their statements to the Lexington Dispatch. After calling for comprehensive immigration reform and taking potshots at lack of leadership from incumbents in Washington, Manning writes, “We must have secure borders, increase penalties for companies that break the law, find better ways to track people who visit our country and
overstay their visas, and we also need a system that strengthens North Carolina and our country’s economy. We need to create a pathway for Dreamers, especially those who serve as first responders or in the military.” Notice that the first two thirds of the statement is devoted to increasing security and strengthening the economy (whatever that means), and only after that does Manning mention helping one particular immigrant constituency — people brought to the United States without authorization as minors, and even then she makes a point to emphasize “worthy” immigrants who have served in the military. Contrast that with Corriher’s statement: “I unequivocally believe we should abolish ICE and offer amnesty to all undocumented people in this country. If capitalists and factory owners can cross borders with ease to find cheaper labor, all workers should be able to cross borders for higher wages. ICE leadership and agents have proven to be reckless, violent, and we cannot trust them.” As the headline in the cover story for the recent issue of the New York Times Magazine declares, “The Democrats have an immigration problem.” If Manning’s position is a political calculation that comprehensive immigration reform will only be politically viable after Democrats concede to the compromise of strengthening border security, it’s the same position President Obama took for eight years. The Obama administration increased deportations to record levels, but the Republicans never reciprocated by passing a bill to create a pathway to citizenship. Meanwhile, the conservative lie that the border is broken — contradicted by all the evidence — paved the way for the white nationalist demagoguery of Donald Trump in 2015 and 2016. When Democrats have held the majority, they haven’t enacted immigration reform for fear of alienating conservative voters. President Bush couldn’t find partners in the Democratic-controlled Congress to pass immigration reform in 2007. And in 2010, when Democrats controlled both executive and legislative branches of government, the DREAM Act came up five votes short in the Senate. One of the withheld votes? Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan of NC. Democrats have a lot of work to do to earn voters’ trust on immigration reform. But let’s acknowledge that political power is a cumulative process of building unwieldy coalitions to achieve the necessary majority to govern. A vote is not like wearing a patch to signify your favorite indie-rock band. It has to merge together with a lot of other votes to amount to something. Budd vs. Manning could be very close. If FiveThirtyEight’s prediction holds, it’s conceivable that Budd wins by 2 points. It’s also possible, even probable, that Corriher could earn more than 2 percent of the vote. Conceivably, some of the votes for Corriher will come from people who would otherwise vote for Manning. But it’s also likely that some of Corriher’s votes will come from people on the left who have been too demoralized to participate in previous elections. It’s not hyperbole to say the left has an awesome, even a terrifying responsibility in deciding between Manning and Corriher in the 13th Congressional District. Go vote, and do so with solemn resolve.
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olossal stainless-steel beer fermenters and snaking bottling machinery made an odd backdrop as Wee Thistle Bakery offered samples of Scottish shortbread delicacies across the floor from K-9 Doggie Bakery, stacked cases of dark Hopjob Session IPA bottles towering above. Thousands descended upon Foothills Brewing Tasting Room venue several miles southwest of the downtown brewpub for the inaugural Triad Dessert Market on Oct. 13. Loves Desserts, an organization that typically organizes dessert-centered events in Charlotte, brought the concept to the Triad. Some of the more than two dozen vendors took a cue from the first truly crisp morning of October and dressed their tables in autumnal décor like Baked Just So owner Stacey Milner who positioned some of her boxed confections in a classic bright red Radio Flyer wagon. Since opening her bakery and coffee shop last year, she’s homed in on classic pastries and experimented with new flavors and baking methods in response to specialty cake requests from customers. “I love to be challenged and if you ask, I’ll research it and do it,” she says. As much as she loves recreating Italian apricot tarts from customers’ memories, she makes sure to have ice cream sandwiches on hand for kids. “I really wanted to create an environment, a coffee shop, you could bring kids to and it’s a meeting place for families, “Milner says. “It’s okay if a baby cries in here or runs around. We try to keep [breakable] things high, and it’s just not a big deal.” Her brick and mortar location features a kids’ corner with chalkboard walls, a small table and a nearby assortment of children’s books. “It feels amazing to see kids in here reading these books that I read to my children.” Milner was hardly the only businessowning mom representing at the market. Zaria’s Milk owner Phyllis CaldwellGeorge and her daughter-in-law Brianna Holland opened their e-commerce business in September 2017 after Holland found herself struggling to produce enough breast milk to feed her newborn daughter, Zaria. Holland, who is vice president of the company, says she found most lactation-boosting cookies hard and tasteless.
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“I found myself not able to eat them, these products that tion, black women struggle with breastfeeding because they would benefit me and my child,” Holland says. “I was destend to have to return to work earlier, receive less information perate for anything to work so I went online, found various about breastfeeding from their health-care providers and have ingredients people kept talking about… and I found some less access to professional support. basic recipes.” “We’re listening to the customers, listening to what the “Brianna reached out to me because she was experiencing mothers were experiencing and trying to support those mothlow milk supply and she asked me to bake her some lactation ers who are still trying to breastfeed,” Caldwell-George says. cookies with these ingredients,” Caldwell-George says. “One “Whatever works for you and your baby, maybe using some of my colleagues, his wife was also experiencing that. She formula, we want to help support you.” loved the cookies and made a post [about them] and then her “Ninety-five percent of our moms say their milk production friends started messaging me…. It seemed to be that there is increased, and they saw the content of their milk change,” a need, so I started the website, put these cookies out there, Caldwell-George continues. “We’ve got some data to support started the social media page and now we ship cookies everythat as well and we’ll be putting that information out soon to where. There are tons of moms who are looking for support, our customers… [but] you can’t guarantee that for everyone, sharing information about their experience [on social media].” like any other product.” Holland explains that the stress of low milk production She and Holland also offer lactation-boosting muffins among other stressors can compound the issue. She and her and brownies, but any of their treats can be made-to-order mother-in-law utilize ingredients like without galactagogues gluten-free, oatmeal, brewer’s yeast and flaxseed dairy free options included. Caldwellmeal in their Zaria’s Milk products to George is even working on a lactation Learn more at zariasmilk.com encourage lactation. pancake mix. The duo says their oatmeal and bakedjustso.com. “Breastfeeding is something that is chocolate chip cookies tend to be cusnatural but not easy and research shows tomers’ favorite until they venture out there are huge discrepancies between to try more daring options like blueberry women of color and white women, lemon white chocolate oatmeal cookies. and what it takes to continue breastfeeding,” Holland, who “As we say on the website [these cookies] increased my milk holds a master’s in public health, says. “Knowing there’s these supply by like two ounces and my milk was much richer and discrepancies, these barriers, helps me bring that perspective thicker than before,” Holland says. “But at the end of the day, into what we do as a company at large.” any excuse to eat a tasty cookie is a great excuse.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Preven-
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