Will Cubbison

The State of the Twitter?

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:29:55 -0400

It's fair to say that was the first State of the State to be tweeted.

Gov. Beverly Perdue's first speech to the legislature was touted as historic because she is the state's first female governor, but it may be recalled as well as the first to be micro-blogged on the popular site Twitter.

A sample of the live reactions to the speech:

* "who cares? It would only be interesting had Munger won." — Sam Spencer

* "Anyone else think it's ironic that the hashtag for the state of the state address is #ncsos? Guv'nah Bev's sending out an S-O-S!" — Ben McNeely

* "Perdue: "We don't have time for talk-show political posturing or petty partisan games." Not Political Connections I hope? lol" — Tim Boyum, News 14 North Carolina host

* ""Vocational, CC, or college" .... Glad to see McCrory at least influenced debate on the issue." Ryan Radford

* "Governor just called me out for twittering while she talks. Well me and people actually there" — Will Cubbison, Young Democrats labor chair

* "Great example with the flight attendant from the Miracle on the Hudson flight, but "Sheroes"? Really?" — Joe Colletti, John Locke Foundation

* "Brace yourself for a Gov. O. Max Gardner reference. Gardner was governor during the great depression, spent money rather than cut." — Mark Binker, Greensboro News-Record reporter

To read the full discussion, go to search.twitter.com and type #ncsos

Draft numbers

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:53:05 -0400

The creator of the Draft Brad Miller site says he is not surprised.

Will Cubbison, an N.C. State graduate who started a Web site encouraging the Raleigh Congressman to run against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole, said he was "shocked" that the draft movement did as well as it did.

"In some ways, the most surprising thing of all is that Brad would even consider it," he said.

In the beginning of the year, bloggers at BlueNC and elsewhere began rooting for a Miller campaign. In January, Cubbison registered the Web site, which went live in April.

He said that the site raised about $3,000 from around 70 donors for a Miller campaign. Though it wasn't successful, Cubbison said the draft may have raised Miller's profile and helped promote some of his issues.

"If that's all we accomplished, then it was worth every minute," he said.

Miller genuine draft

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 16 May 2007 11:29:23 -0400

An N.C. State grad has started a Web site to draft U.S. Rep. Brad Miller for a Senate run.

The Draft Brad Miller site features pro-Miller videos, links to blog posts and attacks on U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole's record in office.

It was started by Will Cubbison, a 21-year-old political science major from Raleigh who writes under the name Blue South on the liberal BlueNC and The Daily Kos blogs.

Cubbison said he only recently met Miller at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner and has no ties to the Raleigh Democrat's political staff.

If Miller runs, Cubbison said he isn't sure what will happen to the site. A controversy broke out earlier this year when U.S. Sen. Barack Obama took over a volunteer's MySpace page.

"It's one of those things I haven't thought too much about," Cubbison said. "If he decides to run, then I'll forward most of this stuff to his campaign and say here you go, have fun. Other than that, I'm not sure."