Grassroots politics

Wake County Nichols stepping down as Wake Dems chair; Mack Paul the likely replacement
Posted by Bob Geary on Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:26 PM at Indyweek.com

This will be old news to some, but as a fellow asked me today who's going to replace Jack Nichols as chair of the Wake County Democratic Party, the answer is Mack Paul (his pic is <-) — that is, unless in the next three weeks some other candidate comes out of nowhere to claim it.

Read more: http://bluenc.com/tags/wake-democratic-party#ixzz0xr8QxI1Y

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A more unbiased announcement from Blaise Strenn on his listserve sent to anyone wishing to receive his notices.

TUE 9/14. 5:30pm Wake County Democratic Executive Committee meeting – Elections for County Party Chair and Wake State Executive Committee (SEC)members to take place.

This Diary is meant as a how to guide on making North Carolina more progressive within the state legislature. As we have seen, even with large Democratic majorities, it is often not enough to just get more Democrats elected to office in Raleigh. We also need to make sure that we are pushing for different Democrats, real progressives who put people first. But, how do we do that on an individual basis?

As most of you already know, I have been in Reno, Nevada for the last few weeks helping Barack Obama win the White House. I am officially a part of the big Purple Army known as the Service Employees International Union. But I wanted to give all of you an update on another project I am working on-- Traction Action.