Some CIBO With Your Tea?
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If you’re into seeing political candidates go head to head in public forums, then this is the week for you.
Thursday at Noon, barring another wintry postponement, Patsy Keever and Bruce Goforth will be fed identical meals of meat, green beans, and whipped taters before debating the issues of the day. CIBO is hosting this event at Magnolia’s. It’s ten bones to pay for your lunch, and the political theater is free. Read my previous post on the event here.
If you’ve got plans Friday night, you be better off bagging them and heading to the Tea Party at A/B Tech. The GOP candidates will line up at 6:30pm and get their liberty on. Erika Franzi, headmistress of the local Tea Folk, is soliciting questions from you and me. Click here to email her a question for the gang. The six candidates committed to attending are Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, James Howard, Ed Krause, Jeff Miller, Greg Newman, and Kenny West. Congressman Heath Shuler is invited as well, but he hasn’t signaled any inclination to sip from the same cup as the organizers or the broad field.
Dr. Dan has been winning straw polls across western North Carolina with his “We have seen enough ‘government solutions’” approach. The GOP faithful appear to be drawn more towards Jeff Miller and Greg Newman. But what do I know? If you’ve got the constitution, go see for yourself.
Big kudos to both groups for helping to educate the people and ask hard questions of the candidates. No matter our political differences, good campaigns make for better elections.
8 Comments
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:47 am
If Teabaggers believed the crap they spew, they wouldn’t hold their meeting at a socialized community college. AB Tech is a classic example of a “public option”.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 4:48 pm
“The GOP faithful appear to be drawn more towards Jeff Miller and Greg Newman” If this is true why does he keep winning the Republican straw polls?
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March 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Dr Dan Eichenbaum
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March 2nd, 2010 at 5:30 pm
Jim,
It would have been more accurate to say, “The GOP leadership”.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Your quote not mine.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:34 pm
On a completely unrelated note, the CD from which you jacked the graphic for this post (“Rumble: The Best of Link Wray”) is essential listening.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:45 pm
I’m a Asheville Tea Party member but not a fan of the jingoistic 9/12 project and therefore probably not of Dan Eichenbaum. Still in November I could possibly go for Keever if she she would spend more time campaigning on (low fertility) social issues like gay rights and contraception or abortion funding than on steep slopes. But if she sticks with the issues she’s on, then I’m sticking with the Tea Party and against illegal alien uberbreeders.
Ironically, Ive been both for and against Fisher as her voting record is so much better than her campaigns, I tend to turn against her during campaign season as she campaigns on exactly the issues that I oppose, then she goes to Raleigh and quietly votes for what I support.
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March 2nd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Jim,
I’m saying that I would have been more accurate to say…
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