http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/o_captain Comments for "O captain" en http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/o_captain#comment-35 <p>Growth Matters has a related post <a href="http://www.growthmatters.org/?p=101">here</a>. </p> Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:03:36 -0400 ryanteaguebeckwith comment 35 at http://projects.newsobserver.com http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/o_captain <!-- Begin check for Blog Icon --> <!-- End check for Blog Icon --> <!-- Begin check for Teaser Toggle --> <div class="field-item"><p>Normally when a political party has a great year, as the Democrats did in November, the captain is not made to walk the plank.</p><p>But over the weekend, Wake County chairman Keith Karlsson, a business executive with Sysco Systems, was defeated for re-election by Doris Weaver, a retired labor official with the <a href="http://www.cwa-union.org/">Communications Workers of America</a>, reports Rob Christensen.</p><p>The upset at the county convention held at Knightdale High School was seen by some as a victory by the liberal/progressive/labor wing of the party.</p><p>&quot;I think we changed for the better,&quot; said P.R. Latta, the veteran Democratic activist and former labor guy who backed Weaver. &quot;We will come from the bottom up instead of from the top down.&quot;</p></div> <div class="node-blog-teaser-footer"> <div class="node-blog-teaser-comments"><a href="http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/o_captain#comment"><img src="http://www.newsobserver.com/images/front_new/icon_discussion.gif" width="11" height="7" border="0" /> Comments (1)</a> <!-- If permissions, display edit link at end of teaser --> <!-- End edit link code --> </div> </div> <!-- End check for Teaser Toggle --> <!-- BEGIN AUDIO ATTACHMENT CODE --> http://projects.newsobserver.com/blogs/o_captain#comment Democrat Under the Dome Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:24:01 -0400 ryanteaguebeckwith 265 at http://projects.newsobserver.com