NC Right to Life Rally and March - January 17, 2009: Ashley Tyndall

Ashley Tyndall, national President of Students for Life of America and Raleigh resident spoke at the rally.

Ashley got the numbers wrong though - estimates are at over 1000.

And where was most of the major news media after having received numerous media advisories days in advance?

WAKE SCHOOLS AND THE IMMACULATE INAUGURATION

Have a story about Wake Schools pushing a political agenda with the inauguration of the messiah this week?

You can confidentially email us with the details and we'll look into it.

Email us at wakecommunity@bellsouth.net with the details.

WHICH PLUM CRAZY IN THE BRENTWOOD AREA IS WORSE

The old Plum Crazy or these new folks who are "plum crazy."

The "Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center."

Apparently, they do hip-hop as well.

You can add these folks to the list of problematic "hip-hop" joints in Raleigh

Brentwood sure has gone downhill since I grew up there.

ATTEND - STOP FORCED ANNEXATION MEETING

StopNCAnnexation Update

The next meeting of the Joint Commission is this coming Thursday. The location is different from where the last three meetings were held.

Meeting details:
Day: ThursdayTime: 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Date: January 22nd
Location: Room 1027 - Legislative Building
Address: 16 West Jones Street, Raleigh, 27601
Directions: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/help/directions.html

The final meeting is less than five days away. It is critical that the Joint Commission members hear from hundreds of people from across NC while they hammer out the details of the recommendations they plan to unveil on the 22nd.

I hope that you realize the impact that your input has had on the direction of the conversation in this Joint Commission.

When the Senate decided to get involved in studying the annexation issue, all the signs were there that some Senate members were more interested in taking control of the conversation than in allowing the citizens and the growing number of pro-reform legislators to continue to control it. It looked like some pro-city Senators were stepping in to rescue the cities from the outcry of the people. But that hasn't happened thanks to the strong committment by so many people to stick together and keep writing, calling and doing whatever it took to be at the commission meetings.

The comments coming back from the commission members to some of the calls and letters has been encouraging to say the least. It appears that the legislators are listening to the people and are recognizing that there are serious problems with how city initiated annexation has been used. And they seem to realize that the people of this State are not going to rest until the laws are made right with the American principle of protecting individual rights.

No matter how much the city lobbyists would like to transform this wonderful State into the "Soviet Socialist Republic of North Carolina", that is not what the people will accept and that is not the kind of place we want to live in.

Please take the time to remind the Commission members that 'we the people' want to see real meaningful changes made to the annexation laws_"no more tweaks". We want change that restores just rights and protections to the property owners.

1. Meaningful oversight of city initiated annexation
2. Meaningful services defined and required
3. A meaningful voice in the final decision to join a city or not

Here are the email contact addresses for the Commission Members for your convenience:
vernonm@ncleg.net; Rcsoles@ncleg.net; Austina@ncleg.net; danielc@ncleg.net; done@ncleg.net; tonyf@ncleg.net; Steveg@ncleg.net; malcolmg@ncleg.net; joeq@ncleg.net; tonyr@ncleg.net; Bruceg@ncleg.net; Paull@ncleg.net; Larrybr@ncleg.net; nelsond@ncleg.net; Earlj@ncleg.net; louishomeofo@bellsouth.net; Edgars@ncleg.net; Fredst@ncleg.net; Russellt@ncleg.net;
bhcampen@bellsouth.net; Tina.Hall@rowancountync.gov; spfd1301@nc.rr.com; beth.trahos@smithmoorelaw.com; gbarrett@co.cumberland.nc.us; dmccarley@ci.charlotte.nc.us; judith_wegner@unc.edu; DAITKEN@nc.rr.com

(Trudi Walend is no longer receiving email at the General Assembly)

I have also attached a text document that lists the home addresses and phone numbers of all the Legislators on the Commission. You can also find this information online @ ttp://www.stopncannexation.com/Joint_Committee.htm

A couple of other things that you could do, that would raise the public discussion of the issue and help keep the annexation issue in the media, would be to write letters to the editor and call into radio talk shows. These two actions can be done for the next few months and will help the progress of the issue through the 2009 Legislative Session.

One thing that is very clear from the statements from the Legislators and the reaction of the NCLM during this study of the annexation laws; we are all being heard and taken seriously. This is unprecedented in all the past studies.
Let's keep the pressure up and take this issue to a successful resolution this year.

You can find this information and more on the StopNCAnnexation website: http://www.stopncannexation.com/ See you in Raleigh on January 22nd!

Catherine Heath
StopNCAnnexation Coalition
919 649-9154

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them." abolitionist Frederick Douglass

MONDAY'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 19, 2009

Today's overview:

OVER 1000 CONSERVATIVES MARCH IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH SATURDAY, MOST OF THE MAJOR MEDIA MISSES IT

LIBERAL FRONT GROUPS GIVEN CHANCE TO PUSH AGENDAS AT RALEIGH TAXPAYER EXPENSE

WAKE SCHOOLS RECEIVES OVER 1400 COMMENTS CONCERNING FLAWED DIVERSITY ASSIGNMENT POLICY

SATURDAY'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 17, 2009

Today's overview:

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: IF THIS HAPPENED ON FAYETTEVILLE STREET WITH THE CLOCKWORK FASHION OCCURING AT THE ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL AREA ...

YET ANOTHER VIOLENT CRIME COMMITTED AT ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL AREA

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: ATTEND - NC RIGHT TO LIFE RALLY AND MARCH IN RALEIGH SATURDAY!

IF THIS HAPPENED ON FAYETTEVILLE STREET WITH THE CLOCKWORK FASHION OCCURING AT THE ENLOE HIGH SCHOOL AREA ...

What would Charles "Livable Streets" Meeker do?

Yet another violent crime has been committed at/in the Enloe High School area.

Of course this area around Tarboro Road, Raleigh Boulevard, Glascock Street, etc. doesn't fall within Mayor Meeker or Mitch Silver's vision for livable streets.

They've dumped millions onto Fayetteville Street and in the process completely neglected areas of Raleigh desperately in need of true social services and more importantly police protection.

Police moral is low. The Raleigh Police Department is understaffed. Ask some of Raleigh's finest off the record and they'll tell you how disappointed they are in Meeker and City Manager Russell Allen.

Maybe you can tell folks at the MLK celebration tomorrow how much you've neglected their community in favor of pouring millions into upper crust "white-collar" restaurants on Fayetteville Steet.

Maybe an apology is more in order....

Or maybe you can just blame President Bush's "human rights" record for the problem as you did recently. After all you're just a Mayor and this is your city.

Anne McLaurin - could you please talk to your husband and ask him to fix the problem? He is the Mayor and you are on the school board.

ATTEND - NC RIGHT TO LIFE RALLY AND MARCH IN RALEIGH SATURDAY!

North Carolina Right to Life will hold their annual Rally and March for Life this Saturday, January 17, in downtown Raleigh.

It is important that we have a large crowd for this event.

The Rally will last no more than a couple of hours and is a great opportunity to show your support locally for the sanctity of life if you cannot make it to Washington DC.

Snacks and beverages will be provided following the March.

As the weather should be quite cool tomorrow, please dress warmly.

Here are the details:

Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Nash Square – downtown Raleigh (corner of McDowell and Hargett Streets)
Google Maps: Nash Square

For Life,

Joey Stansbury
Wake Community Network
www.wakecommunity.blogspot.com

FRIDAY'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 16, 2009

Today's overview:

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: COMING SOON - OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO BETTY LOU

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: RALEIGH PUBLIC ART - THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - RALEIGH'S NC BUDGET DOCUMENT

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: TERRORIST RALLY IN RALEIGH JANUARY 5, 2009 - PART TWO

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: MISS THE RALLY FOR TERRORISTS IN RALEIGH ON JANUARY 5? YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE.

COMING SOON - OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO BETTY LOU

Until Wake County Commissioner Betty Lou Ward moves forward with her recommendation that public records be put online, we're going to help with her personal records.

We'll post them for her.

Stay tuned .........

THE 2030 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - RALEIGH'S NC BUDGET DOCUMENT

Anyone involved with politics of any persuasion in North Carolina knows how both sides utilize the NC budget as a political weapon.

Politicians on both sides of the aisle anxiously await the week before elections to know what type of mail attacking them will arrive in voter mailboxes.

Likewise, Raleigh's Comprehensive Plan has 460 pages of goodies.

Maybe Meeker, Koopman, Stephenson, Baldwin and McFarlane would like to explain this one to irate Raleigh parents.

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TERRORIST RALLY IN RALEIGH JANUARY 5, 2009 - PART TWO

If what these folks were supporting wasn't so inherently dangerous to the survival of a democratic Isreal and a world free from terror, they would be so

PATHETICALLY LAME.

These folks need to read Saul Alinsky's chapter on Tactics in Rules for Radicals.

It would not surprise me if somewhere some Z. Smith Reynolds money was involved with this.

MISS THE RALLY FOR TERRORISTS IN RALEIGH ON JANUARY 5? YOU CAN WATCH IT HERE.

Related Link:

http://wakecommunity.blogspot.com/2008/12/come-support-terrorists-in-raleigh-on.html

RALEIGH PUBLIC ART - THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

Cue the music.

In the immortal words of James Brown ......

Please, Please, Please

Raleigh appears bent on moving forward with yet another taxpayer funded boondoggle to spend millions on public art.

In today's N&O, Raleigh City Clerk Gail Smith is quoted as saying:

"Yes, we like the concept, and yes, we want to move forward ...."

What a tasty election morsel. Maybe folks like Rodger "I phone in my votes" Koopman, Mary Ann Baldwin, Russell Stephenson or Nancy McFarlane in potential swing districts can tell their constituents how they raised their property taxes and water and sewer fees to put more Light + Time landmarks all over Raleigh.

Or better yet, Mayor Charles "unlivable streets" Meeker can explain to people on the brink of losing their homes how he needed to raise property taxes to pay for this.

And just think, each time a new Raleigh capital project goes up, the issue magically arises from the grave.

So,

Please, Please, Please .....

Vote for this.

Opposition candidates are salivating.

THURSDAY'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 15, 2009

Today's overview:

BARRY SAUNDERS OF THE N&O DEFENDS MILLIONS FOR PUBLIC ART - RALEIGH CITY CLERK SAYS THEY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE IDEA

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: IF YOU'RE BILL MCNEAL AND YOU'VE WRECKED A SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHAT DO YOU DO?

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: BETTY LOU WARD - THE EXPERIENCED TRAVELER

WAKE FOREST SETS BUDGET PRIORITIES, RALEIGH MOVES AHEAD WITH WASTEFUL CITY PLAZA PROJECT

ACORN "NUTS" TO HOLD RALLY IN DOWNTOWN RALEIGH

SOUTHERN WAKE PARENTS SPEAK OUT AGAINST UNRESPONSIVE SCHOOL BOARD

DON FRANTZ SPEAKS ABOUT HIS MEETING WITH THE WAKE SCHOOL SYSTEM

IF YOU'RE BILL MCNEAL AND YOU'VE WRECKED A SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHAT DO YOU DO?

Lobby for changes in how school test results are recorded.

McNeal supports the State Board of Education's proposal to count retests for students who fail the initial tests. McNeal called the idea a "no-brainer."

Well thank goodness it was a "no brainer."

It's all part of Bill McNeal and Tom Oxholm's "School District's Journey to Excellence."

BETTY LOU WARD - THE EXPERIENCED TRAVELER

Monday afternoon's Wake Commissioners meeting proved to be pretty lively.

Beyond the fact that Harold Webb cut off Commissioner Tony Gurley from speaking against Webb's sacred cow of forced busing (yes - the great program that puts minority children on old buses for hours on end each week and somehow that makes them smarter), Paul Coble seemed to provoke a hyper-sensitive response from Betty Lou Ward.

Hmmm.

Commissioner Coble made an entirely reasonable suggestion. That being that the County Commissioners participate in budget cuts as they are asking all Wake County Departments to do.

Paul did not even suggest doing away with trips, which would have suited Wake Community just fine. He suggested that perhaps just one commissioner travel and report back.

Heck he even suggested that Betty Lou could attend "since she was so experienced at it."

Wonder why?

Because Paul Coble suggested taking away Betty's sacred cow.

Betty Lou Ward is legendary for never meeting a taxpayer funded trip she didn't like.

Watch the video here. Under the video screen go to the "Jump To" bar and scroll down to the consent agenda. It's the first video that will appear once you jump to the consent agenda.

And what does Betty Lou Ward have to say about Wake County taxpayer funded trips?

"Commissioner Betty Lou Ward said she supports putting the public records online ...... "

"You're held up to a lot more scrutiny when you use public money than if you're in a private sector job," Ward said.

"Ward said more oversight might be needed to ensure county money isn't wasted."

"I think there will definitely be changes. In the 20 years that I've been a commissioner, nothing like this has ever happened," she said.

You can probably gather that Betty Lou was not speaking about her personal trips.

We applaud Betty Lou Ward for wanting to put the public records online and hope that she'll hold herself to the same standard she wants of others.

Here's a great place where a link should be posted front and center.

Ask Betty Lou Ward why her travel records aren't posted online. You can email her at _____________ . Oh that's right, she's the only Wake Commissioner who does not list an email address.

WEDNESDAY'S JOURNAL - JANUARY 14, 2009

Today's overview:

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: RALEIGH ARTS COMMISSION WANTS TO SPEND AT LEAST $1.13 MILLION FOR PUBLIC ART AT NEW CLARENCE LIGHTNER PUBLIC SAFETY CENTER ..... FOR STARTERS

WAKE COMMUNITY NETWORK: WHEN RALEIGH GETS A NEW MAYOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF TARBORO ROAD AND BRAGG STREET RESIDENTS SHOULD START IMPROVING

WAKE COMMISSIONERS SPEND $40,000 FOR BIRTHDAY PARTY

MAYOR MEEKER STANDS UP AGAINST HOMEOWNERS, STANDS UP FOR VAGRANTS

NC DOT TO STOP REIMBURSING RALEIGH FOR REPAIRS THE CITY MAKES ON STATE ROADS

ENLOE STUDENTS URGED TO TAKE PRECAUTIONS AGAINST MAYOR MEEKER'S "UNLIVABLE STREETS"

VIOLENT CRIME DROPS IN CARY, SKYROCKETS IN RALEIGH

TARBORO ROAD SEES IMPROVEMENTS DESPITE NEGLECT OF MAYOR MEEKER

WAKE SCHOOLS MAKES COSTLY PURCHASE IN WATERSHED, SHUNS SEEKING INPUT FROM RALEIGH

WAKE HOMEBUILDERS TRAVEL TO DC TO SEEK INCENTIVES

DEMOCRATS LINE UP FOR LINDA COLEMAN'S SEAT

THE ONGOING SAGA - WAKE PARENTS UPSET AT REASSIGNMENT CHANGES

RALEIGH COUNCIL VOTES AGAINST DOG PARK FOR STRICKLAND ROAD SITE

RALEIGH CHARTER SCHOOL GETS VARIANCE FROM CITY COUNCIL - CAN BUILD ON SIX FORKS ROAD

WHEN RALEIGH GETS A NEW MAYOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF TARBORO ROAD AND BRAGG STREET RESIDENTS SHOULD START IMPROVING

"A mention of human rights led Mayor Charles Meeker to say America's human rights record should start improving now that Obama is replacing Bush."

(N&O 12/6/08)

Maybe when somebody replaces Meeker the human rights and public safety of residents around Tarboro Road and Bragg Street will start improving.

Pot meet kettle Mr. Meeker.