Pat McCrory, the former Charlotte mayor and likely Republican gubernatorial candidate next year, has endorsed Wake County school board candidate Heather Losurdo.
In a robocall McCrory is making to voters today, he asks voters to "reject untrue, negative personal attacks, and vote on the serious issues." He also says that Losurdo "is the only candidate committed to this non-partisan (student assignment) plan moving schools forward."
Here's the text of the robocall:
"Hello, this is Pat McCrory. When you vote in the school board Election, please reject untrue, negative personal attacks, and vote on the serious issues.
In a bi-partisan effort to improve our schools, the board passed a new assignment plan that will bring stability to our system.
Heather Losurdo is the only candidate committed to this non-partisan plan moving schools forward. It's real progress, but it could end with the election of someone who opposes the plan.
So your vote for Heather Losurdo is important. Please be sure to vote on Tuesday for Heather Losurdo! Thank you very much."
UPDATE
Here's the Wake County Democratic response to the McCroy robocall:
"This coming from a campaign that spent most of their energy and time saying that we were part of a statewide machine," said Wake County Democratic Party Chairman Mack Paul in a press release. "In the waning hours of the race they elect to tie themselves with the presumptive GOP nominee for Governor, meanwhile we have hundreds of volunteers hard at work."
Comments
Bad Move......
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 23:40 — GODBLESSNCPat should have never endorsed Heather! What was he thinking?
OH MY, I hope Bev does make
Wed, 11/09/2011 - 00:59 — starsonoursOH MY, I hope Bev does make campaign ads with this. "McCrory supported Wake County School Board Candidate Heather Losurdo" People in the other 99 counties (and a large portion of Wake Co.) will say Heather who? Or will Bev win a second term in a landslide because of this?
Very stupid of McCrory...
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 08:07 — Jackson_Tybee.. to tie himself to a candidate with so many problems. If more comes out about Losurdo, this could come back to bite him in the ass big time.
Huh? What are you talking
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 08:17 — woodstockHuh? What are you talking about?
HAHAHAHAHAHA...
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 00:14 — ClearThinker...my, my, FSandYUCK. What big teeth, large ears, and thin, thin skin you have! You must know that Snooki Losurdo is going to lose Tuesday, otherwise, you wouldn't be so touchy, touchy, touchy! Perhaps you should join Mr. Margiotta at his table Tuesday night, and both of you cry over a bottle of Dom Perignon.
Just make sure that when Snooki waits your table, she brings you clean glasses. She had a bad habit of spit wiping them in New Orleans when she didn't feel like going back to the kitchen.
If she can't win one job, she might as well get that one right!
I'll be thinking of you!
I think of you when I wipe
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:19 — FSandYOUthen I watch you swirl around as you go down.
The attacks have definitely been personal
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 21:18 — Jackson_TybeeThey have also been absolutely true. I suspect Losurdo protesing as much as she does is only going to ensure that more people come forward to prove she's been lying about her accomplishments from the start, whether she wins or loses. She's really pushing it by demanding apologies. If I were her, I'd shut up and be glad worse didn't come out.
BY THE WAY...
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 21:50 — ClearThinker...I understand that Losurdo will be having her "victory" celebration Tuesday night at Milton's Pizza on Falls of the Neuse.
Question...will she be waiting tables...and will she be takling tips?
You really are a cad.
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:40 — woodstockYou really are a cad.
Kevin Hill has failed Wake County
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 23:06 — MontcalmWill Hill stand up to oppose the outrageous naming of a Wake County school by sworn white surpremacist Josephus Daniels?
It was Susan Bryant...
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:28 — bpuli9999who brought that up not Losurdo. You might start thinking about all the stuff that is named after slave-owning founding fathers too and standing up to it.
Now that's funny.
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 22:12 — the_truthNow that's funny.
Just when I thought you
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 22:08 — jeffrey1Just when I thought you turned the corner...
LOSURDO...
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 22:46 — ClearThinker...sorry you lost, sweetie. Table six! Margiotta wants more wine!
She'll need to wipe up the sewage
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 22:53 — FSandYOUcontinuously flowing from the crap hole in your face before she can get to Ron.
He won't mind waiting.
Never mind the
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:42 — woodstockNever mind the bleary-eyedstinker, he/she/it is an ill-bred cad.
posing?
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 23:05 — stepbystepFusSY, are you a middle school boy posing as a grown-up?
If the plan
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:49 — logosisdeadenjoys such nonpartisan support, why does it need to be partisan politics that keeps it in place? Does it not really have non-partisan support? It should be able to survive regardless of the party affiliation of the winner. McCrory's lies are now his. Partisan hack.
McCrory?
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:10 — logosisdeadWho lost last time around. He's now on the record LYING for Losurdo? In the same breath he tries to make voters think lying is bad he says Hill is against the plan. Hill has said he's for the plan. How simple can that be? McLiar and Loser-do - a match made in Tea Party paradise.
For the plan
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:15 — starsonoursHill is for the plan he voted NO to? Have we stepped into the Bizzaro world were up is down and No means you are for something?
Hill and Losurdo seem to
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:35 — danofncHill and Losurdo seem to have similar positions on the plan.
Both like the plan but want to see certain changes.
Since KH is on the board, he felt it was more appropriate to express his concerns by voting no, since it's easier to change something like this before it is "the way". Now that it has passed, staff is working on details, and changes will cause them to have to re-do work they are doing now.
Losurdo, on the other hand, says she would have voted for the plan but wants to change some feeder patterns. That, IMO, is basically saying "Vote for me, Brassfield families", but it really means nothing. Once the plan has passed, there is no guarantee that you can get anything changed.
Sorry to make you
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:31 — logosisdeadListen to sentences that last longer than seven words. Have you been listneing to anything? Seriously. Hill noticed that the plan that was hastily put before a vote was missing a key component called "set asides" HEY PAY ATTENTION!!! Better... without these set asides in the plan it could have a flaw that severely limits some students' ablility to get into the school of their choice. So, he voted "no" to point this out - WAKE UP! geez.. so that the staff would look at and fix this issue. Got it? He's on the record saying he will not go back to the other plan and that he supports this plan - when done right.
Now put down the Dr. Suess and pick up something more age appropriate.
Listen to yourself man!
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:50 — FSandYOUListen to yourself man!
Hill voted against it! He voted against a lot of things didn't he. He can be on record saying anything he wishes, but tomorrow when he's declared the winner all that is off the table. How long have you lived here, 20 minutes? That's how those like him do right! That's who they are. Ask the snob bunch.
He's about the last of the holdouts, the leftovers, the droppings, from the Burns-Dulaney way of life. Those who have surrounded him tell us who he is. I mean geez man. So we should just believe he's a reformed do gooder who's out on a joy ride? I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. I bet if you ask Sam, the Brassfield bunch, Bob and everyone else who can tell you that HE'S DONE NOTHING FOR THEM they'd tell you they don't trust him.
Now you put down whatever has you leaning too far left this evening because you're about to teeter over.
Brevity is the soul of wit
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:43 — starsonoursBrevity is the soul of wit...or you can go on forever trying to explain away your NO vote. Saying more than needs to be said does not win the argument. If your post are considered age appropriate I do need to pick up a Dr. Suess book, there is more wisdom there than the words you write.
Kind of funny
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:46 — logosisdeadHow you repeated the phrase, "brevity is the soul of wit." Like saying it once wasn't enough. You remind me of Polonius. Thanks for playing.
Like the if you do not post
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:51 — starsonoursLike the if you do not post a subject line, the first lines of your post before puncuation become the subject line?
"Sometimes the questions may be complicated but the answers are simple." Theodor Geisel
Wake County
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:36 — HereWeGoHe does not even live in Wake county.
Future Wake County Resident
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:02 — starsonoursHe will be living in Wake County in January 2013, he will be moving into a house on Person Street in Raleigh.
...
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:38 — SideburnsNow that's funny.
And I bet he doesn't even
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:47 — jeffrey1And I bet he doesn't even know why that's funny!
I think it's funny because
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:52 — danofncI think it's funny because one or both of you would have said it if he'd endorsed Kevin Hill.
...
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:01 — SideburnsI'm surprised you took the time to read it.
This is a mistake by McCrory
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 19:23 — gregishereMcCrory is slated to beat the crap out of Perdue next year. Expending political capital on a teabagger will come at a price. Maybe he's got enough coins in the bag to weather this, but he's now associated himself with a know-nothing scam artist.
Your mistake is thinking
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 06:30 — woodstockYour mistake is thinking tying someone to the Tea Party is a liability. Only the far left wing does not yet get the fact that the Tea Party is saving this country from the abyss. I have never even been to a Tea Party event, but I get that. Attempts to demonize the Tea Party is one reason conservatives have won so many races across the country lately.
So Heather Losurdo...
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:39 — bpuli9999is a member of the tea party or not? Why don't you help her with that- she sounds confused. Does she want their support or not?
There is no such thing as
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:28 — woodstockThere is no such thing as being "member" of the Tea Party, you dolt. It's a movement that supports Constitutional government. Are you against that?
So only Tea Party
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:47 — criticalthinkerSo only Tea Party supporters endorse Constitutional government?
Interesting.
Your island is shrinking.
Must be climate change.
But don't worry.
If you don't believe in it, it'll just go away.
So only Tea Party
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:36 — woodstockSo only Tea Party supporters endorse Constitutional government?
In 2011, YES!
Disturbing
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 11:46 — criticalthinkerAnyone else here want woodstock as your defender of the Constitution?
And I think it was the
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 08:44 — criticalthinkerAnd I think it was the number one strategy that defeated your slate.
How utterly hysterical to hear you and your cronies once again sing the praises of Tea Party, only to make sure and qualify that you haven't attended rallies (sort of like saying you didn't inhale.)
There's no doubt there's been too much complacency - on both sides - each side that lost in the last couple of elections has been guilty of it.
As for this election, the Tea Party has left a bad taste in an awful lot of mouths.
No it's not
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 20:36 — FSandYOUYour first sentence is correct. He'll enjoy a landslide victory over Captain Veto. The ultimate prize will have been won and those like WhalerMom won't even be hired to lick the loser's wounds.
As for your hate for "tea drinkers", the next time you are near the edge of the cliff it is totally up to you what you do.
I like mine with lots of sugar and a biscuit.
If the landslide is just like RM's...
Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:44 — bpuli9999we'll be fine.