Post by Logan on Jan 26, 2016 15:47:02 GMT -6
North Carolina’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidates will share a stage for the first time Friday in a race that has attracted little public attention.
The four are scheduled to appear at a Raleigh forum sponsored by The N.C. Council of Minority Caucuses. It is the only joint appearance they have agreed to – although the campaigns are weighing invitations for televised debates next month from Time Warner Cable and WRAL-TV.
With less than two months to go before the primary March 15, the campaigns have been quietly building networks, raising money and putting together campaign organizations. Financially strapped, they have used social media for most of their messages. But the clock is ticking. Absentee voting by mail began Monday.
The most movement involves former state Rep. Deborah Ross, a Raleigh lawyer, who has been collecting the key endorsements.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/article56661573.html
The four are scheduled to appear at a Raleigh forum sponsored by The N.C. Council of Minority Caucuses. It is the only joint appearance they have agreed to – although the campaigns are weighing invitations for televised debates next month from Time Warner Cable and WRAL-TV.
With less than two months to go before the primary March 15, the campaigns have been quietly building networks, raising money and putting together campaign organizations. Financially strapped, they have used social media for most of their messages. But the clock is ticking. Absentee voting by mail began Monday.
The most movement involves former state Rep. Deborah Ross, a Raleigh lawyer, who has been collecting the key endorsements.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/article56661573.html