Comments on: Incumbent commissioners defeated https://www.ibiblio.org/carrborocitizen/main/2012/05/10/incumbent-commissioners-defeated/ Carrboro's Newspaper 2007 - 2012 Fri, 11 May 2012 03:10:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bronwyn Merritt https://www.ibiblio.org/carrborocitizen/main/2012/05/10/incumbent-commissioners-defeated/comment-page-1/#comment-119670 Fri, 11 May 2012 03:10:48 +0000 http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/?p=25877#comment-119670 Chris Weaver did ask Mark Dorosin about this issue during a campaign event at the senior center. Mark’s reply was that he thinks residency districts are unfair. I don’t see how that is “no comment”.

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By: Chris Weaver https://www.ibiblio.org/carrborocitizen/main/2012/05/10/incumbent-commissioners-defeated/comment-page-1/#comment-119654 Thu, 10 May 2012 15:25:11 +0000 http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/?p=25877#comment-119654 “Rich said, “It just hit me in the face that the time was right,” citing her perception of an “unnecessary wedge between city and rural folks” that she felt she could help remove.”
Hummm
Perhaps a start by stating now…that the current election structure in which District One gets to Choose the representative for District Two…be eliminated.
Per State code
§ 153A‑58. Optional structures.
A county may alter the structure of its board of commissioners by adopting one or any combination of the options prescribed by this section.
1,2…
(3) Mode of election of the board of commissioners:
a. The qualified voters of the entire county shall nominate all candidates for and elect all members of the board.
For options b, c, and d, the county shall be divided into electoral districts, and board members shall be apportioned to the districts so that the quotients obtained by dividing the population of each district by the number of commissioners apportioned to the district are as nearly equal as practicable.
b. The qualified voters of each district shall nominate candidates and elect members who reside in the district for seats apportioned to that district; and the qualified voters of the entire county shall nominate candidates and elect members apportioned to the county at large, if any.
c. The qualified voters of each district shall nominate candidates who reside in the district for seats apportioned to that district, and the qualified voters of the entire county shall nominate candidates for seats apportioned to the county at large, if any; and the qualified voters of the entire county shall elect all the members of the board.
d. Members shall reside in and represent the districts according to the apportionment plan adopted, but the qualified voters of the entire county shall nominate all candidates for and elect all members of the board.

Currently C is our option…NOT B. If both districts had equal populations this current system….would not be so bad…except the entire expansion was to provide accurate representation to the rural areas…
But as it stands now, with the huge population disparity…district One always determines district Two’s Representative.
Lets Start there Penny.(I asked Mark about civil rights for D2 regarding this…no comment)
http://wp.me/p2acSb-4D

Mr Dorsin, keen on reparations…I agree!
Lets clean up the mess…but let us not forget WHO MADE IT….
There has been only ONE party in control for 122 years.
One Party Poisoned the RENA community, One Party made promises Decade… after Decade.

It was NOT the party of Lincoln. Mark Knows this.
http://wp.me/p2acSb-51

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