This week has been full of traveling but what a great experience it was. We began our journey in Elizabeth City on Tuesday. We started by passing out “Respect our Vote” flyers at community shelters and food banks in the area since HB 351 would affect low income, low wealth, and displaced residents in large [...]
Monday was not the typical boring first day of the work week that everyone expects. Around lunch time we received a phone call that Governor Beverly Perdue would be in Greenville meeting with a small number of members from the Eastern North Carolina Civic Group. This was an opportunity that we could not give up. [...]
Thursday, June 2nd, Khadijah and I got a chance to speak to some senior citizens at Independent Living Center off of Akron Drive in Winston. The citizens that attended expressed a lot of concern about the new legislation being introduced. They also expressed other fears, such as community centers not getting the necessary funding, less [...]
This week in Charlotte… We’ve had quite a busy week, but a fairly exciting one as well. It seems as if this week has passed within a blink of an eye, yet we have already gained many valuable contacts and experiences. To begin with, our first day started with a speaking engagement at 8:30 AM. [...]
This week one of our main goals was to get on the local radio station WOOW am 1340. Broadcasting starts at 8 am and we of course had to be there early. Initially we were supposed to go on the air on Thursday but, like we were warned of, we ran into some pot holes. [...]
So far the internship has been a blur and pretty fast paced. Khadijah and I have been trying to find contacts, get organized, get numbers, set up events, all while preparing for speaking events and one-on-one meetings. Because our office is not equipped with internet service, making these conn Around lunch time on Wednesday we [...]
Our few days as Democracy NC interns have definitely been active, to say the least. Neither of us expected to be so busy within the first few days of the internship, but there has barely been a free moment since we walked into the office on Tuesday. Of course the first few moments involved logistics, [...]
Team Charlotte has officially created their twitter account @dnCharlotte. We are on Team follow back because we want to know what you think!!!
IMPORTANT UPDATE: We are pleased to confirm that the newest version of the Senate budget DOES NOT include a provision to combine the State Board of Elections, State Ethics Commission and the lobbying regulation division of the Secretary of State’s office as described below. We are hopeful that this bad idea will be permanently shelved [...]
For Release Thursday, May 26, 2011 Contact: Bob Hall, 919-489-1931 Legislation to Increase Charges on Small Loans Follows Surge in Contributions from Consumer Finance Industry A campaign finance watchdog organization is raising questions about whether an unusual pattern of contributions given by donors in the consumer loan business is connected to a bill now moving [...]