ATTN: #ncpol 🚨⚠️
It has been brought to my attention that there is an account impersonating me, posting atrocious tweets using my name and image. Please report them as spam to help accelerate the process of having this profile taken down. #ncga
It’s the right thing to do to give power to the people. #ncpol
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Here is a link to the bill: https://t.co/jvKDMXhEbQ
Here are links to two articles on my bill:
https://t.co/75HwfEkvGH
https://t.co/eKC5PcuhyK
They have clearly refused.
I am currently talking with my Wake colleagues in the House and Senate about this bill. I am encouraging them to support it, and support the people’s right to choose their representation on the County Board.
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last spring about this issue. Some I spoke to. Some never responded to me. I spoke to every Wake County Commissioner last spring about this issue except for one who never returned my call. I asked them to implement this change themselves so the #ncga didn’t have to.
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Today I filed a common-sense, reasonable bill to align the Wake Board of Commissioners with the Wake Board of Education: one member district elections/nonpartisan.
Time to give back the power to the people.
I reached out to every member of the House Wake Delegation
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Board of Commissioners based on the vote of the other districts outside of District 2.
Why should those voters have faith that their Representative is accountable to them when it's the voters of the other six districts that put that person in office?
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People deserve a County Commissioner who is accountable to them and the local interests of their part of the county.
What we have now is akin to taxation without representation.
In 2014, the winning candidate for District 2 lost the vote of District 2 but won a seat to the
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Wake County’s population is nearly 1.2M.
#WakeCounty is bigger than eight states.
Wake County is rich in communities of interest around the county.
It makes no sense that we elect all seven of our Wake Board of Commissioners at-large (county-wide).
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