Today, on this bright and sunny Friday morning we found ourselves entering the lavish Levin Museum uptown for a Democratic Party forum. After our filling our stomachs with a delicious lunch, we opened our ears to an enlightening speech by Chris Fitzsimon regarding various appalling bills in the general assembly currently. He began by updating [...]
This weekend in Charlotte... On a lovely Saturday morning, we attended the infamous Black Berry Brunch with its galore of summer hats; pastel colored suits and finely dressed escorts. The event was hosted by the Black Women Caucus to discuss the ignored efforts the state has on Education and to celebrate the recognized awardees for [...]
This week in Charlotte... This week the Charlotte team made another trip to the beautiful city of Asheville, North Carolina. This trip was primarily to follow up on one-on-ones we had on our last trip, finalize details for our tour stop on the July 16th, and attend an event to get petition signatures for the [...]
Another week in Charlotte… Our week started with a planning day. We went to the office and set our goals on the table then later we made phone calls to prepare for our tour stop that was to begin the next day. Tuesday morning called for our full and undivided attention as we made our [...]
This week in Charlotte… It’s been another eventful week! Monday started off with scrupulous amounts of planning for meetings that were to be held in the upcoming days. In the evening, we also met with Mary Klenz from Legal Women Voters along with Advocate Tom Bowers, in order to discuss the details of our scheduled [...]
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. [...]
Team Charlotte has officially created their twitter account @dnCharlotte. We are on Team follow back because we want to know what you think!!!
So a main part of our week was our time spent at JCSU during freshman orientation. We were there Thursday and Friday from 7:30 am- 5:00 pm registering the new students to vote in Charlotte. We reached our 100 goal!! Erica and I had to hand paint signs that said "Sign Up Here To Vote! [...]
This week Alannah, Robert, and I are going to college freshmen orientations to register the incoming freshmen to vote. Hopefully we'll be able to pull these excited students into the trend that we're trying to create for the Charlotte college community. Tomorrow kicks off our 2nd month with Homeland Security. I feel like we're a big [...]
What a long week! It started off with some bad news regarding the venue of July 24th event. So while we were running around like chickens with our heads cut off, we were also finishing up the final touches for Lobby Day. Then Tuesday morning we were up bright and early to ride out with our van [...]