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Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

billybo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:51:48 -0500

It is scary to have people like Eva Clayton in power. The women is a proven idot.

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

Isaac136 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:33:48 -0500

Dang, FloyTurbo, I don't hate the guy. I didn't think my observation about Dubya was anything out of the ordinary, did you? Since when does stating the obvious tag a person as "raging?"

Say, you're not living in an angry little world of bitterness and denial, are ya?

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

joshtarheel — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:01:09 -0500

I was there, and she also called Beth Wood "Beth Woods," directed the audience the Food Bank was to our right when it was too our left, and she was trying hard to talk almost regally, and it sounded like a horrible Southern accent impersonation.

Very disappointing and embarrassing, especially when she said things like, "my good friend...Joe HACKLEY."

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

FloydTurbo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:08:25 -0500

Hold on to that raging Bush-hate Isaac. Maybe it will keep you warm while you stand in line for all of the "free stuff" Obama has promised you.

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

Isaac136 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:31:05 -0500

Er . . . I don't think Bush's problems with pronunciation were what bothered folks most about his presidency. You might want to think a little harder about it. (Clue: His inability to "think a little harder" might have something to do with our national humiliation.)

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

FloydTurbo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:52:20 -0500

And Bush said "nucular" and the Dems wanted to impeach him .... Eva Clayton wasn't elected because of her command of the language.

Re: Tongue twisters at the inauguration

CarltonHuffman — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:02:34 -0500

Me thinks someone drank one too many toasts at some point.

Re: Female Firsts in North Carolina

collar — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:05:15 -0500

The first female NC Secretary of State was Janice Faulkner - she was appointed in 1996 by then Gov. Hunt to replace Rufus Edmisten who resigned.

Re: Charlotte News editorial from 1937 on Wohl candidacy

gercohen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:51:29 -0500

"Yeah, but did anyone run before them? I don't want to assume they were the first without something saying that."

I checked the North Carolina Manuals for 1921, 1925, 1929, and 1933 to check the election returns for 1920-1932. Unfortunately, pre 1936 for council of state they only bothered to publush the results of Democratic primaries, no women there, but there are no records of Democratic candidates who faced no primary, and no record of Republican candidates at all for the Council of State. So I can not vouch for anything pre 1936 as to whether there were any female candidates. Guess being a one party state with a one party state government lead to a shortfall on the historical record.

Re: Charlotte News editorial from 1937 on Wohl candidacy

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:28:23 -0500

Yeah, but did anyone run before them? I don't want to assume they were the first without something saying that.

— RTB

I. Beverly Lake (both)

cornbread — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:57:47 -0500

For Gosh...

Senator Jesse, Congressperson Robin and Mayor Patty...

Gosh — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:15:23 -0500

Were all Female Firsts in North Carolina.

Bottom line. No Republican can even make a fair showing in this state without a ballot name pretending to be a woman.

Pat McHenry for Queen of the Universe!

Re: Female Firsts in North Carolina

samwatts — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:03:48 -0500

In 1587, Elizabeth I became the first Queen of North Carolina! :)

Charlotte News editorial from 1937 on Wohl candidacy

gercohen — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:50:30 -0500

"I cut it for now until we can resolve the issue. Not that I don't believe you, Gerry... "
uh, Ryan, I posted inline in an earlier comment the link to the North Carolina Manual for 1937, the official state publication that catalogues election returns for 1936.

Below is a Charlotte News editorial from 11/11/1937 that talks about her unsuccessful 1936 campaign
http://www.wjcash.org/WJCash9/Charlotte.News.Articles/11-11-37.htm
Oh, Lady; Don't!
The report from Raleigh is that Senator Bailey's jesting remark that a woman ought to enter the contest to take Bob Reynolds' toga away from him, has Mrs. Helen Robertson Wohl of Guilford giving serious thought to doing just that. Mrs. Wohl ran under the McDonald aegis for State Treasurer last year and got something like 100,000 votes. Besides, she is a prohibitionist, which would give her the United Dry vote as a nest egg, and she is, we say, a woman, and that would give Bob competition in the quarter he is strongest.
.....

Hard copy of the North Carolina Manual is in the library here. The 1960 election I cite is in the 1961 North Carolina Manual.

Re: earlier female candidates 1936 and 1960

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:20:42 -0500

I cut it for now until we can resolve the issue. Not that I don't believe you, Gerry...

— RTB