The North Carolina General Assembly has cancelled primary elections for judges this year and has been debating plans to either reconfigure (gerrymander) judicial districts or just do away with judicial elections altogether and appoint political friends to the bench.
There is substantial pushback to those plans. The Wake Forest Fair Courts Town Hall-style meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 22, at the Wake Forest Town Hall on Brooks Street. The meeting will be in the ground floor meeting room best reached from South Taylor Street is hosted by Democracy North Carolina, the NC NAACP, NC Voters for Clean Elections, Progress NC and You Can Vote.
Local legislators and experts have been invited to address community concerns about our judicial elections. The organizers say, “We’ll provide the latest ways to help you fight back for fair courts.”
The 90-minute meeting is free and open to all but you are invited to RSVP to https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6601/p/salsa/event/common/public/attendTellafriend.sjs?event_KEY=87376. You can also use the short link, www.demnc.co/fairwakeforest or use Facebook, https://business.facebook.com/events/192641074655220/.
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Yikes!
Why is our town hall being used for an obviously partisan meeting? They should have rented the Renaissance Building and payed for the space. The council should be held accountable for this, along with the mayor and staff.
Joe, The town rents out that ground floor meeting room on a regular basis to a number of groups. The Renaissance Centre is unavailable because it is being renovated.
I have a question. Are they paying rent? These are groups that are issue oriented geared to sway a voter to one specific political party.
This event is being held by non-partisan organizations for the purpose of informing citizens of what is actually happening to the judicial system in NC. This affects all of us, and when we have extremists in the General Assembly trying to change the make up of the courts to benefit them we should all be paying attention. Read the national news and you will see that this is not a singular issue to NC. Just look at the attempts to impeach judges in PA because they ruled against their GA.