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WHY THE REST OF THE STATE SHOULD CARE ABOUT THE RACE FOR STATE SENATE IN THE 43RD DISTRICT!

Today’s Sunday edition of the Gaston Gazette, the local newspaper in Gaston County, told the terrifying story of local Democratic candidate Annette Carter and her brush with political terrorism. Annette Carter is the current chairperson of the board of education and is running in a hotly contested race for current Democrat, David Hoyle’s seat this fall.

Gaston County politics has always been a bit lopsided and if truth be told somewhat cumbersome for local democrats. The conservative stronghold in this county is more like a choke hold with the 43rd State Senate seat being one of the bright spots.
Annette carter became the victim of what some are calling “campaign terrorism” when a crumpled up yard sign was left on her door step along with shards of glass from a brick thrown at her glass door. The Gaston Gazette described it this way.

It's hard to question anyone who's 70 years old and wants to get out the sausage factory in Raleigh. But on the heels of Tony Rand's rapid fall from grace, you'll be forgiven for wondering if something smells a little fishy around David Hoyle's recent announcement.

Sometimes you just have to shake your head and cry, as I did this morning after reading comments coming from David Hoyle on a story in the N&O about sex-offenders.

Nichols, 31, had served six years in prison for indecent liberties with a teenage girl and attempted second-degree rape. He was released last September and started attending Moncure Baptist Church. He met with the pastor, disclosed his crimes and often sat in the front row for worship.

But after the Chatham Sheriff's Office investigated an alleged sexual assault by another person in the church parking lot in March, Nichols was arrested because he was attending the church, which has a child-care facility on its premises.

And what does the family-values man who sponsored the law have to say about all this?

"As far as I'm concerned, they've lost all their rights -- to go to church, to go to McDonald's to get a cheeseburger if they've got the slides," said state Sen. David Hoyle, the Gastonia Democrat who sponsored the law. "They have made that choice. They have imposed that on themselves. I didn't."

As reported by the Independent Weekly, Representative Ty Harrell (D-Wake) and State Senator David W. Hoyle (D-Gaston) have penned SB1004 (and it's House counterpart, HB1252), known as the "Level Playing Field/Cities/Service Providers" bill. Contrary to its name, the bill seeks to prevent municipal governments from installing high-speed broadband or wireless internet service and acting as an ISP, even if commercial ISPs have no plans to offer service to their communities.

Close on the heels of Time Warner Cable's announcement that it would begin testing "tiered bandwith" caps in Greensboro, and the annoucement of Salisbury's plan to follow in Wilson's footsteps and provide fiber to the home for its residents (promising symmetrical speeds of up to 100Mbps), these bills not only threaten the possibility that North Carolina will finally claw its way above the national average in residential broadband access, and do so in an affordable manner, it also threatens North Carolina's access to the $4.7 billion the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has set aside from the $787 billion stimulus package to bring broadband to underserved and un-served communities.

Read on for legislative contact information and learn why North Carolina isn't likely to receive fiber internet any time soon...

Human beings are judgmental to the core. In the blink of an eye we assess and calculate and decide how things stack up. Somebody writes something and "boom" somebody else lines up to agree or disagree before you can say David W. Hoyle. We even do it to ourselves. Just look into your own mind. Right now you might be judging whether you're wasting your time reading this.

The hard truth is, being judgmental feels like a job to me - and sometimes it's not a job I like.

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Like any "good" Democrat, I discount Republicans out of hand. Individuals may be fine, but as a collective, I judge them to be paternalistic extremists. Doing anything that enables them in any way is unconscionable.

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According to the Charlotte Observer, state senator David Hoyle is thinking about retiring.

State Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, had planned to announce this week whether he would run for his ninth two-year term. He said that scheduling conflicts have delayed his decision and he plans to take more time."One day, I say I'll go in for another term. Another day, I'm just tired," he said.

Hoyle, 68, was ranked the third most effective senator in Raleigh in the most recent survey of legislators, lobbyists and capitol journalists. He is co-chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees tax policy, and is a keystone of the Democrats' pro-business faction.

That would be the same pro-business faction we can thank for cutting taxes on rich North Carolinians while voting to continue a regressive sales tax increase across the board. The same pro-business faction that ignored coastal policy and voted to allow rich homeowners at Figure Eight island to "harden" their beach to protect their multimillion dollar homes. And the same pro-business faction that voted to give $40+ million in taxpayer dollars to two tire companies, one of which wasn't even asking for the handout.