Tea Party A$$ KICKED! Dem's control Wake County, NC (Raleigh) school board

[kpete]

Hill wins runoff; Democrats control Wake school board

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/11/08/1629462/wake-school-board-runoff.html#ixzz1dAlZDzSY

Oh HELL yes! Local matters! Diversity matters!

The election yet to be finalized until today's runoff between the Democratic candidate and incumbent Kevin Hill and Republican challenger Heather Losurdo for Wake County School Board has given the Democratic Party a majority! After the voters in Raleigh and Wake County completely rejected "neighborhood schools" and Tea Party Republicanism on October 11th in favor of Democratic candidates in a total turn of events from the previous election when the Teahadist's took control, this seat was still contested due to Kevin Hill (DEM) receiving only 49% of the vote which triggered a runoff tonight.

WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA? You RAWK!!! The people have spoken and they have loudly stated that they reject Tea Party values in favor of diversity, caring for your neighbor and wanting to live in harmony with all people.

It's a beautiful thing!

http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/11/08/1629462/wake-school-board-runoff.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/08/1034491/-Tea-Party-A$$-KICKED!-Dems-control-Wake-County,-NC-(Raleigh)-school-board?via=siderec

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. yes, a great day! Our family totaled 4 of those Hill votes! n/t

[OneGrassRoot]

9. +2 :) Yay!!!! n/t

[NCarolinawoman]

10. My brother and sister-in-law made for two of those votes.

:toast: :-) I'm a little more south of them.

[RedCloud]

2. Victory over the forces of ignorance!

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Yeah! nt

[slay]

4. This was VERY important here in Wake County - basically we threw out the Koch funded repubs!

who did their best to try and destroy our great public school system here. a great day for us - but will take quite a while to undo the damage done by these fuckheads. for more info on what they did - and how - check out this clip from The Ed Show talking with Robert Greenwald about his short film regarding this subject - very powerful -- Robert Greenwald Discusses the Koch Brothers Battle to Re-Segregate North Carolina Public Schools - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0XJiCwSJEM

also Greenwald's film: Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education? -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mbJhjCbwo8

[kpete]

6. congratulations!

I love Mississippi
was just there in October
I have good friends in Stringtown (near Greenville)
love the people - but the politics?!?!?

peace, kpete

[Kennah]

5. We'll put a boot up your ass. It's the American way.

Aw c'mon, Toby. Don't ya wanna sing right now?

[Lex]

7. Was watching closely from Durham

and was so relieved. Go Wake County! Way to take your county back from the Koch Brothers money and Tea Party BS.

[myrna minx]

8. This is such a wonderful night.

:woohoo:

[burrowowl]

11. Whew!

[mnhtnbb]

12. The original turnover to Repubs happened because only 11% of registered voters

turned out to vote in the election 2 years ago.

Even yesterday, less than 1/3 of registered voters turned out--an improvement--
but WTF!!! People have to understand that voting is the ONLY way to counteract
the money the powers that be have to throw at an election.