Bloviations

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below are the answers from Mr. James Bryan (At Large). 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 answers).

-Water is becoming a less plentiful, but more [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, At Large, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville, NC, James Bryan, Onslow County Politics, Politics | Category: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, James Bryan, Onslow County Politics, Politics | Leave a comment

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Below is the response from Bob Warden (At Large). The response is cut and pasted directly from the email and contain no altering of text.
I’m responding to this because I’ve heard that your blogs are balanced. I’ve read several [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville, NC, Onslow County Politics, Politics, Robert Warden | Category: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Onslow County Politics, Politics, Robert Warden | Leave a comment

I emailed questions to all the candidates and incumbents for Jacksonville City Council.
Mr. O’Connor has not submitted answers, but I did speak with him briefly on the telephone today. Below is a quick synopsis of our conversation.
Mr. O’Connor believes in taking government “back to basics”, meaning providing the primary services (police, fire, water, sewer etc). [...]

October 21st, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville, NC, Kevin O'Connor, Onslow County Politics, Politics | Category: 2009 Elections, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Kevin O'Connor, Onslow County Politics, Politics | Leave a comment

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)

The Jacksonville Daily News has a story, but it doesn’t name any of the “numerous people interested” in replacing Willingham, Sullivan, Williams or Thomas on the Jacksonville City Council.
Alva Williams has an interesting quotation, though:
"We’re not through with our work yet…I hope the voting public is smart enough to figure it out that we are [...]

July 6th, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, Jacksonville City Council, Jerome Willingham, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (3)

Candidate filing for the 2009 municipal elections will begin Monday, July 6th and end at Noon on Friday, July 17th.
Filing fees (MS Excel) and more information on the municipal elections is available at the Onslow County Board of Elections website.
There are four seats (Willingham Ward 1, Sullivan Ward 2, Thomas (At-Large) and Williams (At-Large) [...]

July 3rd, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, 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, Onslow County Board of Elections, Onslow County, NC, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (1)

The Jacksonville City Council is still reeling from the aftershocks of the 4-2 vote to dismiss former City Manager Kristoff Bauer and revelation that Council-member Reva Sullivan may have been attempting to contact him inappropriately.
Bauer wrote a letter to the editor of the Jacksonville Daily News declaring his intent to waive any right to [...]

June 23rd, 2009 | Tags: 2009 Elections, Activism, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, City of Jacksonville Recreation and Parks Department, Jacksonville City Council, Jerome Willingham, Kristoff Bauer, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Category: 2009 Elections, Activism, Alva Williams, City of Jacksonville NC, Jacksonville City Council, Jacksonville Daily News, Jacksonville, NC, Jerome Willingham, Politics, Randy Thomas, Reva Sullivan | Comments (7)