Ellie Kinnaird
Come back with me to the summer of 2009. Filing just ended for the Chapel Hill Town Council and Mayoral races when powerhouse Council Member Bill Strom suddenly announced he was resigning and moving to New York. Strom was called "Machiavellian" and much worse.
First it was just the typical Strom haters that accused him of attempting to manipulate the process by waiting until just after the filing period, so that his replacement could be chosen by his friends on the Town Council. Strom himself claimed the timing was purely accidental. However, in the following weeks information trickled out showing that Strom’s actions were every bit as intentional as they looked to the skeptics.
The NC Senatorial District 23 Democratic Party Executive Committee will convene an informational meeting for candidates interested in seeking the appointment to replace Former Senator Ellie Kinnaird at this meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to explain the process, hear brief statements from declared candidates, allow Executive Committee members to ask questions of the candidates, and to allow for public comments. The meeting is unofficial and optional and open to the public.
You can read more about the candidates interested in replacing Former Senator Kinnaird here.
There are four members on this committee, two from Orange County, who control 446 votes, and two from Chatham County, who control 212 votes. The members of the committee are as follows:
- Wanda Hunter, Orange County, whunter1@nc.rr.com, 919-929-9655
- Samantha Cabe, Orange County, 919-928-5701
- Donald Knowles, Chatham County, 919-968-0844
- George Lucier, Chatham County, 919-548-4151
The committee will convene on September 8th at the Chatham County Library to make the official appointment. Full information about this meeting can be found here.
Date:
Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 7:00pm
Location:
Post Office/Old Courthouse Building, 179 East Franklin St, Chapel Hill, NC
The NC Senatorial District 23 Democratic Party Executive Committee will convene to appoint Former Senator Ellie Kinnaird's replacement at this meeting. You can read more about the candidates here.
There are four members on this committee, two from Orange County, who control 446 votes, and two from Chatham County, who control 212 votes. The members of the committee are as follows:
- Wanda Hunter, Orange County, whunter1@nc.rr.com, 919-929-9655
- Samantha Cabe, Orange County, 919-928-5701
- Donald Knowles, Chatham County, 919-968-0844
- George Lucier, Chatham County, 919-548-4151
Date:
Sunday, September 8, 2013 - 6:00pm
Location:
Holmes Room, Chatham County Library, 197 NC Hwy 87 North, Pittsboro, NC
From an email just received:
Dear Friends,
This is my last newsletter to you. After a great deal of thought, I have decided to resign my position in the North Carolina Senate. It has been a great privilege and I have been honored to be chosen to represent the people of this district. Thank you for the opportunity to serve in this way, thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas and for your support over the years.
Note: All the following maps were made by my resident GIS specialist, Jason Baker. Use the checkboxes to toggle the display of old/new districts.
The events in state politics over the last two weeks have served as a reminder that election season is now here. Candidate filing for the May primary starts today. This will also be the first election to use the newly drawn maps for the NC House, NC Senate, and US House districts. These maps alter (rather drastically, in some cases) how Orange County is represented at the state and federal level, so I thought it would be helpful to provide a summary of the changes in each district.
Ellie Kinnaird has announced that she will running for re-election to the NC Senate this year. In past years she claimed that she was ready to retire, but only if she could find a suitable female replacement. Here's the press release:
North Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird
Contact: Senator Ellie Kinnaird
ekinnaird1@nc.rr.com
919 824-5240
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
SENATOR ELLIE KINNAIRD SEEKS RE-ELECTION
"The 2010 mid-terms are less than 3 months away. Join Speaker Hackney and Sen. Kinnaird for a discussion about the current legislative session and the upcoming election, and find out what you can do to keep NC blue this fall."
Date:
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 3:30pm
Location:
Southern Village Club, 601 Brookgreen Drive, Chapel Hill
Dan Pollitt was a dedicated activist and leader in our community for decades. He passed away this morning after a lifetime dedicated to peace and justice. My heart goes out to his wife Senator Ellie Kinnaird and the rest of his family. But the loss is all of ours. Pollitt was a beacon, lighting the way forward from just a little ahead of the rest of us.
Here's the Independent's profile of him from 10 years ago:
Chapel Hill attorney Bill Massengill nails it: "He's the
aggressive-liberal gentleman. Dan can aggressively press his ideas
without offending people." Even when those ideas are quite hopelessly
out of fashion--as they so very often are.
Take, for example, Pollitt's defense of free association amid Red Scare
panic. Or integration in the Jim Crow South. It took the times some
time to catch up with Pollitt on those two.
Or what about advocating labor unions in a "right-to-work" state? How very
un-20th century. And Pollitt's predilection for the abolishment of
state-sanctioned executions? Next season, maybe, or perhaps the one
after that.
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