City council member Gordon Smith posted "Facts About Mark Cates and the Asheville Tea Party" on the Scutiny Hooligans blog. Cates is a Republican running for Asheville City Council. Here's an excerpt (click the link to read the entire post):
Fact: The Asheville Citizen-Times ran a story about last night’s Downtown Association City Council candidates’ forum. It contained this quote:
Cates said he did the books for [Asheville Tea Party PAC] out of friendship to one member and that members have supported him because of one key issue.
“I’m pretty sure I’m the candidate talking about jobs the most, and that is their biggest issue,” he said.
Fact: Mark Cates authored a op/ed in Asheville’s Daily Planet ten months ago in which he stated, “the tea party needs to focus on supporting local individuals who can develop experience in governing over time.”
He also urged people to, “focus our efforts on supporting candidates at the local and state levels that are aligned with Tea Party values.”Read the full article
Fact: The Asheville Citizen-Times ran a story about last night’s Downtown Association City Council candidates’ forum. It contained this quote:
Cates said he did the books for [Asheville Tea Party PAC] out of friendship to one member and that members have supported him because of one key issue.
“I’m pretty sure I’m the candidate talking about jobs the most, and that is their biggest issue,” he said.
Fact: Mark Cates authored a op/ed in Asheville’s Daily Planet ten months ago in which he stated, “the tea party needs to focus on supporting local individuals who can develop experience in governing over time.”
He also urged people to, “focus our efforts on supporting candidates at the local and state levels that are aligned with Tea Party values.”Read the full article
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There are many more questions than there are answers with Mr. Cates. Questions Mr. Cates is not answering.
By D. Dial
10/06/2011
Hard as he may try, and as ardently as his local minions try, this guy's dishonesty and efforts to obfuscate his tea party activities seem to be failing. He seems to be the stealth/Trojan Horse candidate, hoping voters don't peek behind the curtain. The curtain, however, seems to have been opened for all to see.
By Dionysis
10/06/2011
The tea party has proven itself to be a fringe group with an agenda that is not in-step with the majority of Americans. I believe their time has come and gone, and the polls that show many of them struggling to get re-elected reflect that sentiment.
By Ashevegasjoe
10/06/2011
STATE FOR SALE A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds.
by Jane Mayer
OCTOBER 10, 2011
“In a very real sense, Democrats running for office in North Carolina are running against Art Pope,” one political operative says.
Art Pope; North Carolina; Politics;
“In the spring of 2010, the conservative political strategist Ed Gillespie flew from Washington, D.C., to Raleigh, North Carolina, to spend a day laying the groundwork for REDMAP, a new project aimed at engineering a Republican takeover of state legislatures. Gillespie hoped to help his party get control of statehouses where congressional redistricting was pending, thereby leveraging victories in cheap local races into a means of shifting the balance of power in Washington. It was an ingenious plan, and Gillespie is a skilled tactician—he once ran the Republican National Committee—but REDMAP seemed like a long shot in North Carolina. Barack Obama carried the state in 2008 and remained popular. The Republicans hadn’t controlled both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly for more than a century. (“Not since General Sherman,” a state politico joked to me.)”………..c’ntd.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_mayer#ixzz1a1EB1K93
By D. Dial
10/06/2011
Mark Cate's website sure is full of vague nothing-speak. Why is he running away from his strong 'tea party ethics'?
By bill smith
10/06/2011