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The state Board of Elections has wrapped up its investigation of the Wake Schools Community Alliance's late mid-year campaign finance report.
The state Board says the WSCA did violate state statutes by not filing the mid-year report on time. But no action will be taken against the WSCA because of bad information given to the group from the Wake County Board of Elections.
Click here for a prior post with more info. (I meant to post this earlier in the week but got hung up on some other matters.)
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When I left yesterday, they
Thu, 10/01/2009 - 17:40 — WhalerCaneWhen I left yesterday, they were still standing by moving Dist. 1 to Monday. Rita is unavailable then due to a prior engagement. They sent me an e-mail today at 2:45 saying Malone was going to be there today and it was on for then. I didn't see e-mail until after 4:00 pm. By that point it was too late.
If they had stuck to orginal schedule, she would have been there. This one is on WPTF I'm afraid.
As to missing the Phil Jeffries forum with all of ten people there outside of her district, It was a better use of her time to talk with voters in her district.
You can go to Wake Ed Partnership site and see her debate Malone and Vair at that forum. I don't believe you live in the district, and your mind is made up, but I will work to get an answer to any question you have.
You can do better than that
Thu, 10/01/2009 - 22:21 — g88ky07Apparently Bill, show producers, station, Curits Media, didn't care if Rita was available or not. Monday or today the event was on, should've been a priority and Mr. Malone seemed to be in tune to it.
What does your getting an email late have to do with Rita being competent enough to oversee the priorities on her schedule? Guess this wasn't one of them. Can she not, like Lois, move w/o your steering the boat? No way I'd vote for someone who can't keep up any better than that and expect they'd do anything different when it comes to making critical decisions for my children. If they were to get elected, is the plan to have you run their calendars then as well?
Thankfully I'm not in her district, but we have our own status quo issue. Hopefully he will be enjoying his last days on the board this time next week!
Big ole non-story from the start
Thu, 10/01/2009 - 17:27 — g88ky07Right Whaler!
Hey, I know we said we weren't going to engage, but I HAVE to ask, you knew early this week that if today didn't get moved Rita was due to debate Chris on your boy Bill's show. So why didn't she show? Is she underground like we've heard or was she just afraid of having to answer 12 minutes worth of questions? Or, was she afraid her car would get broken into?