People Advocating Real Conservancy sent out the following message via its email newsletter. Click the website link below for more info on the organization.
PARC Endorses:
• Lael Gray
• Marc Hunt
• Chris Pelly
• The AB Tech Referendum
Early voting has started in the City Council election. Election Day is November 8.
Here's a guide to the candidates:
Mark Cates is endorsed by the Asheville Tea Party PAC. He has never before voted in a City Council election. Cates opposed the early voting sites for this election. How can you oppose the neighborhood sites and then ask people to go to those sites and vote for you?
Saul Chase served on the Boone Town Council. He supports better streets and sidewalks.
Jan Davis has been on City Council for eight years. He frequently voted with Carl Mumpower, and he donated to Mumpower's campaign.
Some of Davis' recent votes:
• Voted against the neighborhood early voting sites. (He supported the downtown early voting site where his business support is.)
• Voted against reopening the pedestrian bridge over I-240 to Hillcrest (where several deaths occurred).
• Voted against domestic partner benefits for City employees.
• Voted for the 51 Biltmore project, paying over $3 million for a property with a tax value of $870,000.
• Voted to waive the rules for developers to erect larger signs and more signs.
• Voted to de-regulate downtown development, handing Council's power over to the boards and commissions. (This vote was so unpopular that the Buncombe County Democratic Party Convention voted to ask Council to rescind it.)
Lael Gray Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Smart Start board member. Active with Jewish Community Center, worked on the I-26 Connect Us Project, Building Bridges facilitator. "Education, Environment, Equality."
Marc Hunt Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Founder and former CEO of Nantahala Outdoor Center. Former Chairman of the Greenways Commission. Supports walkable neighborhoods, sustainability and the environment, social and economic justice.
Chris Pelly Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Supports the AB Tech referendum, LGBT rights, council-controlled development, and a bond referendum for more sidewalks, greenways and bike lanes. Says that the needs of neighborhoods have been neglected for too long. Long-time President of Haw Creek Neighborhood Association and former President of CAN, the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods.
--the folks at PARC
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The PARC website:
http://web.me.com/downtown6/Sidewalks/HOME.html
PARC Endorses:
• Lael Gray
• Marc Hunt
• Chris Pelly
• The AB Tech Referendum
Early voting has started in the City Council election. Election Day is November 8.
Here's a guide to the candidates:
Mark Cates is endorsed by the Asheville Tea Party PAC. He has never before voted in a City Council election. Cates opposed the early voting sites for this election. How can you oppose the neighborhood sites and then ask people to go to those sites and vote for you?
Saul Chase served on the Boone Town Council. He supports better streets and sidewalks.
Jan Davis has been on City Council for eight years. He frequently voted with Carl Mumpower, and he donated to Mumpower's campaign.
Some of Davis' recent votes:
• Voted against the neighborhood early voting sites. (He supported the downtown early voting site where his business support is.)
• Voted against reopening the pedestrian bridge over I-240 to Hillcrest (where several deaths occurred).
• Voted against domestic partner benefits for City employees.
• Voted for the 51 Biltmore project, paying over $3 million for a property with a tax value of $870,000.
• Voted to waive the rules for developers to erect larger signs and more signs.
• Voted to de-regulate downtown development, handing Council's power over to the boards and commissions. (This vote was so unpopular that the Buncombe County Democratic Party Convention voted to ask Council to rescind it.)
Lael Gray Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Smart Start board member. Active with Jewish Community Center, worked on the I-26 Connect Us Project, Building Bridges facilitator. "Education, Environment, Equality."
Marc Hunt Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Founder and former CEO of Nantahala Outdoor Center. Former Chairman of the Greenways Commission. Supports walkable neighborhoods, sustainability and the environment, social and economic justice.
Chris Pelly Endorsed by the Sierra Club. Supports the AB Tech referendum, LGBT rights, council-controlled development, and a bond referendum for more sidewalks, greenways and bike lanes. Says that the needs of neighborhoods have been neglected for too long. Long-time President of Haw Creek Neighborhood Association and former President of CAN, the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods.
--the folks at PARC
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The PARC website:
http://web.me.com/downtown6/Sidewalks/HOME.html
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The statement that Jan Davis voted against domestic partner benefits is misleading. He did indeed vote against them when it first came before Council due to objections on how it was brought up. When it came up for a final vote for passage -- as part of an overall gay rights motion that included anti-bullying, a city registry for same sex couples, and anti-discriminatory policies for the city he voted FOR them.
This half truth PARC makes comes a little too close for my tastes to the tactics Cecil Cantrell and Chris Peterson make in attacks they have made over the years against Brownie Newman, Cecil Bothwell, and other progressives who have run for City Council and I would have thought better of them.
By RHS
10/26/2011
Clarification: I was Chief Financial Officer at Nantahala Outdoor Center and Board Chairman at a different point. Never CEO nor Founder. Very happy for my long association with that great company!
By marc hunt
10/27/2011
Mark Cates laid out a strategy addressed to his fellow Tea Partiers less than a year ago, where he suggested they support local activists running for office, as a step towards advancing their "Tea Party values" to Raleigh and Washington. Three months later, he announced his "Strike A Blow From The Heart Of Enemy Territory" campaign.
So yeah, an endorsement from the tea pac is not a surprise...
We can't let this Teabagger masquerading as an environmentalist get a stepping stone to higher office. The rest of the state/country would never forgive us.
http://www.ashevilledailyplanet.com/index.php/Opinion/Letters-December-2010.html
By Barry Summers
10/27/2011