Help Democrats take back most conservative district in NC

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Here is what Dean's strategy has done for us:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070813/moser




"What on God's green earth has gotten into the Wilkes County Democrats? Here it is, the first pretty April Saturday of a snowy, blowy spring. There's yards to mow, balls to toss, plants to plant, Blue Ridge Mountains to hike--all of which you'd think would be mighty tempting on Democratic convention day in a place where Republicans have a damn near two-to-one edge. "Welcome to red-hot Republican territory," says Dick Sloop, a career-military retiree turned antiwar protester who's the new county Democratic chair. "We've been like the homeless around here: silent and invisible. The best we ever did in my lifetime, we had two Democrats once on a five-seat county commission." Even here in western North Carolina, where Republicans have proliferated since the Civil War (when the woods were full of Union sympathizers rather than pro-lifers), Wilkes County--Bible-thumping, economically slumping--has stood out for its fire-and-brimstone conservatism. It's been a stiff challenge to find folks willing to run against the Republicans. Hell, it's been rare to hear anybody publicly admit to being a Democrat. "You've got a lot of people in this county who probably couldn't tell you if they've ever met one," Sloop says"


"Good morning everyone!" comes the booming drawl of Seth Chapman, the longtime clerk of court in neighboring Alexander County who's pondering a 2008 challenge to the archconservative Republican Congresswoman from these parts, Virginia Foxx. "Isn't this something--in Wilkes County of all places! I'll tell you what, I've been over here before when there was maybe six of us. This is great. How on fire the Democratic Party must be in Wilkes County--and rightfully so. You have suffered for centuries!"




"The fifty-state strategy kicked off in 2005 by that other Yankee, DNC chair Howard Dean, has begun to level the playing field by putting field organizers, media directors and fundraisers into both "red" and "blue" states to stimulate grassroots organizing and year-round party-building."



Now check out is running, and eventually taking down Virginia Foxx in 2008. We're going to take down republicans by hitting them where it hurts, and by winning over their base by actually engaging with them in dialouge. Keep Carter on you mind. This is the start of a bright future for the high country of North Carolina.


http://roycarterforcongress.com/



: Roy Carter, the youngest of three children, grew up in rural North Carolina and has lived nearly all of his life in various North Carolina mountain communities. The son of Marion “Bill” Carter, a tobacco farmer, and Jessie Buckner Carter, an assembly-line worker, Roy was raised in a home that valued strength of character above worldly possessions. Poor in almost every other way, Roy Carter had a childhood rich in the traditional Democratic values of hard-work, fellowship, love and prayer.

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