Jerry Meek

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UPDATE from James

As you'll see in the comments below, the writer of this post and the owner of the blog that was referenced in this post has been banned from BlueNC. I have removed the original content for the post, which was simply a link to a Blogspot attack site created by the author.

This kind of duplicitous behavior is unacceptable at BlueNC and will not be tolerated.

And the (Elliot) Meek shall inherit the Earth:

Democratic Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County gave birth to Elliot Matthew Meek around lunchtime Wednesday at Presbyterian Hospital in Matthews. Cotham's husband, Jerry Meek, said Thursday that mother and child are doing well. It's the couple's first child.

The 31-year-old Cotham will win her third term Tuesday. A Republican challenger withdrew and isn't on the ballot.

There's hope for the Democratic Party yet. :)

I drove by Godwin House this morning and it looked like the lights were on but nobody was home.

Like him or not, Jerry Meek left the party in good shape when he stepped down. In much less than 2 years David Young has reduced a well oiled North Carolina Democratic Party machine left him by Jerry Meek to a barely functioning wreck.

Where the NCGOP had their people at many polling places handing out stuff on the " conservative judges" we had no such help from state headquarters. I could go on and on and on but it just makes me mad.

Bev better take control of this mess and put people in place that can do the work and pull this party out of the sink hole we now find ourselves in.

As for David Young the only words I can find that fit are those that Winston Churchill called those terrible words. The words of Oliver Cromwell to the Long Parliament.

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”

It is going to be worth a lot to have a well organized Democratic Party in the next two years. We have an important Senate seat coming open.

anyone want to run?

I hadn't met our North Carolina delegation until I walked in Monday night. I asked all the people in charge where the North Carolina delegation was sitting so I wouldn't have to walk in and trudge around the floor looking for them. I finally found our delegation. Thinking back, I don't know why I didn't spot them from across the floor. They were the only delegates who were on their feet, dancing, singing, waving signs and cheering and that was at the beginning of the night before any of the big name speakers were on.

Their energy and enthusiasm are infectious. The first night we had more camera crews hanging around our area than any other delegation. They just kept coming and the energy of our delegates never waned.

I wanted Jerry to be my first mutual-interview, but he was in high demand. Thankfully he made some time for me in the midst of the morning.

I love his final question to me. It's exactly the kind of moment I want to have in these mutual interviews. He asked me something that he didn't expect, but gave me the opportunity to talk about something that I'm really interested in.

"Maybe Elizabeth Dole doesn't stand by her ad because she knows that for the past six years she hasn't been standing up for North Carolina's families."

Today the NCDP filed their second ethics complaint in a week against Elizabeth Dole. This time its Federal Election Law that Elizabeth Dole has violated. For more, continue below the fold.