Margiotta ousted; Democrats win 4 school board seats in Wake

[auburngrad82]

Source: Raleigh News and Observer

After a tumultuous two years under Margiotta's control, some voters seemed ready to divert from the Republican path. Although likely to continue to emphasize proximity and continuity in school assignments, as the Margiotta-led board has, a Democratic majority would almost certainly reintroduce the importance of diversity to the system.




Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/10/12/1559135/democrats-win-four-seats-on-wake.html

---

I know that this is a local election, and as such doesn't mean a lot on the national level, but there were a lot of rumors that the Koch brothers were funding the Republicans in the election and the Americans For Prosperity local leader had put $15,000 into the election. I take that people, even in the South, are wising up to the tactics of the GOP and realize they have nothing to offer.

[Tansy_Gold]

1. That it's a LOCAL election is not just important -- it's

VITALLY important.

Remember, this is exactly how the right wing managed to get control. They got in not at the top but at the bottom. The school boards, the town councils, the planning and zoning boards.

K&R, enthusiastically.



TG

[Tippy]

6. K&R your post

[CarmanK]

2. Change begins at the bottom and moves upward!!

I agree with you that perhaps people are beginning to wise up and realize that the GOP is the "corporate voice" for the corporate personhood which has no interest in serving the human personhood. Also, I would think the parents in the South are beginning to understand that they are not willing to sacrifice their children's future by allowing them to be lied to on a daily basis by ideologues who have no understanding of truth and find factual information uncomfortable.

[No Elephants]

3. K & 5th R!

[Firebrand Gary]

4. Lets win that runoff! Great job NC, you are inspiring a party that needs it.

[oldhippydude]

5. this is really important

these are the types of elections that the right wing fundamentalists have been taking by default for the last couple of decades.. their tactics have worked, I'm glad our side woke up, and smelled the coffee.. there is a whole new generation of progressives now cutting their eye teeth in the political landscape.. I'm looking for the OWS crowd to "green" the Democratic party.. we will have an army of new progressives..

[rayofreason]

7. Local elections are critical!

That is were the talent is groomed and the backbench is prepared. A record of implementing successful ideas at the local level is where the building blocks for state and national platforms are created.

Thanks for reporting this.

[yardwork]

8. One of the largest school districts in the nation. Not just a local issue.

[totodeinhere]

9. This is great news. This is what we should do. Start at the local level and work up from there.

If we do that we can beat the right wing at it's own game. High profile national races get most of the attention, but to win on the national level we have to start first at the local level.

[SoCalDem]

10. Local elections are VERY important

All those local elections in all those places..over 35 year stretch has brought us the crop of republican tormentors we now contend with.

Their "from the ground up" party-rebuilding exercise after Nixon, is why they even exist as a party.

[Jack Rabbit]

11. I take this is where the Koch Bro$ were spending money to resegregate schools

Am I right?

[auburngrad82]

12. That's pretty much the gist of it n/t