Randy Voller

Teen Democrats Hold 50th Annual Convention in Browns Summit

Raleigh, May 25, 2013: The North Carolina Association of Teen Democrats will hold their 50th Annual Convention at Haw River State Park, accompanied by the first annual North Carolina Youth Political Summit. Groups from Asheville to Nags Head will be coming to hear from prominent political leaders as well as to elect officers of the state-wide organization.

The event begins on Friday, May 31 at 6 PM with dinner and orientation to acquaint new and old members from across North Carolina. Saturday morning, North Carolina Representatives Marcus Brandon and Pricey Harrison will conduct an open forum. This leads into a reception open to the public at 11:00 AM with College Democrats of America President Tori Taylor, Greensboro City Council Candidate Jamal Fox, and former US Senate Candidate Jim Neal speaking on the many achievements of the Teen Democrats.

In an email to the State Executive Council of the NCDP, Chairman Voller claims that the authors of a complaint to the Council of Review leaked their petition online:

"A member of this council and three members of the State Executive Committee (SEC) filed a complaint for the Council of Review and instead of allowing due process to operate they have posted it on BlueNC and leaked it to the media."

-from Voller email

This is absolutely untrue.

Offered without comment

Update: Comments closed. As I said on another thread, take this circular firing squad crap somewhere else. I'd welcome a reasoned, fact-based conversation about such matters, but you folks are going off the deep end.

It's no wonder so many people check out of politics.

Randy Voller will be speaking tomorrow at the County Convention of the Wake County Democratic Party. Registration opens Saturday at 9am. Delegates should have received notice by postal card and by email with complete information.

However, I received no notice myself. If you are supposed to be a delegate, check with the County Party by calling 919-828-5656 and asking for Paulette. Best to check today before going to the Convention at Daniels Middle School in Raleigh tomorrow.

Read more here: http://wakedems.org/node

I've spent a lot of time over the past couple of days asking hard questions and getting good answers. I apologize to Randy Voller and to BlueNC readers for not doing that in the first place. My bad. Thanks to so many in the community for clarifying the facts I missed.

Mr. Voller says he talked about his delinquent taxes on the campaign trail, so maybe I'm the only one who missed it. In any case, Republicans will be able to exploit this situation every time the new Democratic Party chair opens his mouth. So I ask two questions to those of you who were more personally involved in various campaign events: Did you already know about this? And if so, why the hell didn't you say something?

Great media one-liner from Chairman Randy Voller from WRAL.com:

"We are the party of the New Deal," he said of Democrats. "They are the party of the raw deal."

"In his first news conference as North Carolina Democratic Party chairman, Randy Voller vowed Thursday to fight the Republican majority in the General Assembly and enlisted state residents to join in the battle.:

"We cannot just lie down and let this train run over us," Voller said in fiery remarks to reporters...

read all about it here:
http://www.wral.com/nc-dem-leader-gop-taking-state-backward/12077287/

Three articles from WRAL.com:

NC Dems tap Pittsboro mayor for state party chair
By GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press

DURHAM, N.C. — Still reeling from 2012 defeats at the ballot box, North Carolina Democratic activists narrowly elected a small-town mayor as their next leader Saturday after an 11th-hour draft of former U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge fell short by a few votes.

Meeting in Durham, the state Democratic Party's executive committee elected Pittsboro Mayor Randy Voller by a vote of 309-298 over Etheridge, who wasn't in attendance when his name was placed in nomination. Voller, a favorite of local party activists, vowed during his two-year term to fight to reverse Republican electoral gains and policies.

We are here to win the battle of ideas in our communities, and we're here to win elections," the 44-year-old Voller told committee members...

From the Independent Weekly piece by Bob Geary:

"I won't belabor how much trouble the Democrats are in, but a few things are worth mentioning.

One is the virtual certainty that the General Assembly will end the state income tax check-off for political parties. That's the system that allows us to assign $3 of our taxes to the state Democrats or the state Republicans. Democrats get far more from it—upward of $600,000 a year and sometimes twice that—while Republicans consider it welfare for politicians. Consider it gone.

Also, the Republicans are shameless about taking contributions from companies and individuals who want something out of state government, the very "pay to play" tactics they denounced when the Democrats were in charge. Expect these "transactional donations," as Voller calls them, to set records on the Republican side but be scarce for Democrats.