Bloviations

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below are the answers from Mr. Jerry Bittner (Ward 2), who is running against Councilwoman Reva Sullivan. The answers are cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text, except for format (bulletized the questions and indented the [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Category: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Jerry Bittner, Onslow County Politics, Politics, Reva Sullivan | Leave a comment

The Jacksonville Daily News has posted profiles of the candidates for Jacksonville City Council. For your convenience, I’ve linked the individual profiles below (The JDNews page is a bit squirrelly and quiet a bit confusing…)
Incumbents:

Reva Sullivan (Onslow) (Ward 2)
Randy Thomas (Onslow) (At Large)
Alva M. Williams (Onslow) (At Large)
Jerome Willingham (Onslow) (Ward 1)

Challengers:

Jerry A. Bittner (Onslow) [...]

October 12th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Hunter Hadley Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Robert Warden | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Hunter Hadley, Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Robert Warden | Comments (1)

The 2009 municipal elections are just more than a month away and there’s been nary a word from the majority of candidates running for Jacksonville’s City Council.
Below is a list of questions I will be sending to all the candidates within a few weeks. Give them a read and add your own in the [...]

September 26th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Bob Warden, Hunter Hadley Jr, Jacksknville City Council, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Hunter Hadley, Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Onslow County Politics, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (2)

Filing for 2009’s municipal elections are over and the slate of candidates for November’s ballot is complete. It’s time to stop guessing who will pony up to run and prognosticate about the campaigning.
Since there’s not much campaigning to analyze so far, I figure that it’d be useful to lay a baseline…Which is how I would [...]

July 27th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Onslow County Board of Elections, Onslow County, NC, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Onslow County Board of Elections, Onslow County, NC, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (2)

The filing deadline for 2009’s municipal election has passed and the final listing of candidates is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections site.
The incumbents:

Jerome Willingham (Ward 1)
Reva Sullivan (Ward 2)
Alva Williams (At-Large)
Randy Thomas (At-Large)

The challengers:

Jerry Bittner (Ward 2)
Hunter Hadley, Jr. (At-Large)
Robert Warden (At-Large)
James Bryan (At-Large)
Lori Ready (At-Large)
Kevin O’Connor (At-Large)

You’ll notice that Mr. [...]

July 17th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Horace Mann, Hunter Hadley Jr, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, James Bryan, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Kevin O'Connor, Lori Ready, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan, Robert Warden | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Horace Mann, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, Jerry Bittner, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (2)