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A piece from for Creative Loafing of Charlotte:

Democrats were able to celebrate across Charlotte last night after reelecting Mayor Anthony Foxx, improving their majority on the City Council, and getting two of their preferred candidates elected to the school board. To statewide Democratic leaders, those results were not in a vacuum — they were part of a trend with huge implications going into the 2012 presidential race.

“What happened in Charlotte is a very, very, big deal,” said David Parker, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party. “Pat McCrory handpicked those candidates, particularly for City Council, and campaigned for them. And the whole McCrory-Tea Party axis got shot down."

Hello again to all my BlueNC friends. Hope y'all been doing great, and enjoying some of the nice weather we had earlier this week.

I wanted to make sure everyone got to check out this great editorial today in the Charlotte Observer.

"When the senator got a burr under his saddle"

Curiously, Burr prefaced his remarks by saying he had no personal objection to the hearing going on. That's ridiculous. It was his objection that halted the hearing.

Oh wait, but there's more:

Hello folks, my name is Mike Cooper. I’m a volunteer for the Cal Cunningham for Senate Campaign.

For the better part of my life, I had always wanted to be a sports journalist, and was on a set path to make that happen. In college I was already writing for various sports publications, and I thought, on my way to living out my dreams.

Then in 2006, the Military Commissions Act was signed into law. When that happened I was shocked. That act was, to me, unconstitutional, the end of Habeas Corpus, and a blow to everything I thought America stood for.

The very next day, I walked across the campus of Appalachian State University and volunteered at the local Watauga Democratic Party headquarters. I canvassed, made the phone calls and finally got to advocate, and do something about, the issues I cared for. And I was hooked.

The next summer I moved to Vermont to take an internship with Howard Dean’s Democracy For America PAC.

Wow!!!!!!

Cal Cunningham has been building up momentum in the NC Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate

Look at the actual list of supporters that the Cunningham campaign just released.

I saw the email from Rachel Hunt Nilender, but that
list is huge and includes a ton of really important people.

Just check out

http://action.calfornc.com/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_ite...

Representatives Pricey Harrison and Lorene Coates.

Val Applewhitefrom the Fayetteville City Council, Nina Szlosberg-Landis, Former Chair of the Mecklenburg County Commission Liz Hair, Orange County Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier and a few hundred other people from
across the state.

That is quite a list!

Join NC-5 candidate Roy Carter on a live blog at Democracyforamerica.com 's blog: blogforamerica.com

It takes to minutes to sign up, and you can join the rest of the national Netroots and blog with Coach Carter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hunt for the Foxx begins here.