WataugaWatch

Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]

Friday, November 04, 2005

The Republican Dirt on N.C. Democrats

Democrats will have supplied the Republican talking points against them in North Carolina's 2006 General Assembly elections ... by passing the lottery bill. Here's a preview from Republican uber-operative Carter Wrenn of those talking points. Senator Tony Rand has richly earned his defensive position, and we're interested to see Lt. Gov. Bev Perdue make an appearance her for her role. But ... what! no Jim Black?

// posted by J.W. Williamson @ 11/04/2005 12:44:00 PM

contact

Contact us with news tips, links to articles of interest, malicious gossip, and unsubstantiated rumor. We'll check it out!

Local Newsy Opinion

North Carolina Bloggy Goodness

about

J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.

The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.