Chairman to step down after NC Dems elect successor–WRAL

North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker said Thursday that he won’t resign over his handling of a sexual harassment complaint that forced out the party’s executive director. Instead, he called for a new chairman to be elected next month. (More)

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Message: "Get out and Vote" – Daily Southerner

TARBORO — North Carolina State Sen. Clark Jenkins (D-Edgecombe), set the tone for the Edgecombe County Democratic Party Convention on Saturday in the Edgecombe County Superior Courtroom in Tarboro by asking citizens to take back the control of the Republican-led General Assembly. (More)

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Video/Pictures: Democratic Party Edgecombe County Convention Saturday April 14, 2012 Began With A Good Message From Rev. Wayne Hines But Ended With Ignance From Rev. Roosevelt Higgs About Racial Profiling

Higgs stirs racial controversy – Daily Southerner

Response: Higgs said the three black candidates are not qualified for the offices and electing them could hurt the Democratic Party. How ignant. Being qualified only means meeting the criteria for being able to file and obviously they are all qualified because they were approved by the Edgecombe County Board of Elections to be considered as candidates. I hate ignance and the misleading information thrown out as truth.

"It does damage to our party when we can’t show that we have racial diversity in the offices," he said. "When you look at the fact that we have four elected salary positions being the sheriff, the clerk of court, the register of deeds and the district attorney, we hold three of those offices. And to try to go out now and try to get all four offices will be like when we condemn the other community years ago for not giving us opportunities to have access to it." This is just as ignant as it gets. Democrats be they black, brown, white and other have the right to run for office and the people have the right to vote for whoever they want to represent them.

County chairman Allen Mitchell chose not to address Higgs’ comments, but did say, "If you have a meeting, you are going to have some people who might disagree. We’re going to have a little of that in every meeting, but I think we brought it (the convention) back to order." Mitchell chose not to address Higgs because he like several whom was in the room are afraid of Higgs. We have a weak damn chairman so he is right we are going to have a little of that in every meeting because he is afraid of Higgs.

Daily Southerner: TARBORO — A black political activist stirred up a racial controversy during Saturday’s Edgecombe County Democratic Party Convention.

During the closing minutes of the meeting, the Rev. Roosevelt Higgs said, "President Obama didn’t win the election in 2008 because he got all black votes. Sheriff James Knight did not win the sheriff of Edgecombe County because he got all black votes. Madam Clerk (Carol Allen White) did not win because she got all black votes. (More)

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Video/Pictures: Democratic Party Edgecombe County Convention Saturday April 14, 2012 Began With A Good Message From Rev. Wayne Hines But Ended With Ignance From Rev. Roosevelt Higgs About Racial Profiling

Allen Mitchell chair called the convention to order.

See what candidates attended and what they had to say.

See Rev. Wayne Hines message to the delegates encouraging the faithful to get out the vote.

During the election of the Prosecutorial, Senatorial and House Committees Rev. Roosevelt Higgs suggested that it be a black and a white since it is 2 positions on each committee. Higgs try to make it appear he is about what is right but at the end of the day he always shows his ignance.

At the end of the meeting as the convention was about to end, Rev. Roosevelt Higgs fooled the people by saying, racial profiling is racial profiling and asked those in the room can he say it, and a few said say it and he kept repeating that and then he dropped the bomb on them saying that the only reason why Senator Clark Jenkins, House Rep. Joe Pat Tolson and Register of Deeds Robin Carpenter had folks challenging them is because they are white and he sat down saying racial profiling is racial profiling. There was much discussion in the courtroom and all the way out the door as people went to their cars talking about how ignant Higgs was and they didn’t know he was going there. I told them keep on agreeing with him before you know what he is talking about. It was funny as hell to me because he suckled them right on in.

Higgs to say that the blacks whom are running against the white candidates calling that racial profiling when we were in a Democratic Party meeting, a democratic society where all qualified Democrats have a right to file and run for a seat no matter who the incumbent is is just ignant as hell. So sir even if they are running just because incumbents are white it is legal to do so.

Last year I told the chair that I had received some calls from Pitt County that Higgs was in Greenville and Ayden that he was there pulling a trailer behind a truck with Republican C. B. Daughtridge big ole sign. The chair told me he believed it because he had taken pictures of Higgs putting up C. B. Daughtride signs at Edgecombe Community College Rocky Mount campus. If the chair whom told me he had pictures of Higgs putting up a Republican signs at Edgecombe Community College Rocky Mount Campus last year, Higgs precinct chair Mary Hinton, Rev. Wayne Hines Edgecombe County Commissioner, other commissioners and other Democrats in the county that knows Higgs do not live where he said he lives and has not since the flood in 1999 would ask him to step down as a vice precinct chair we would not have to deal with prolong meetings dealing with his intentional ignance. But obviously they are afraid of him so there you have it.

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Democrats hold conventions for Nash, Edgecombe counties – Rocky Mount Telegram

Response: The following was quite interesting and probably one of the world’s best kept secret, “(Republicans) have passed more legislation in this past General Assembly that has now been challenged in state and federal courts than has ever happened in the history of this state,” Jenkins said. “We need to get them out of there. We can take it back over, but we cannot take it over unless we have the folks in North Carolina get out and vote.” I have not heard anyone put that out there. C. Dancy II – The Political Agitator

TARBORO – The goal of the Edgecombe County Democratic Party’s convention Saturday was rallying the faithful to solicit every vote needed to take back control of the N.C. General Assembly. (More)

 

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Edgecombe County Republican Party Chairman James C. Proctor is on the fence when it comes to predicting the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.

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The Edgecombe County Democratic Party is gearing up for the 2012 presidential election with three main goals in mind. "We will be registering people and we will get them to the polls," said Allen Mitchell, Edgecombe County Democratic. (More)

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TARBORO — Edgecombe County Democrats used their annual convention Saturday to start correcting key mistakes made last November, when Republicans won the election. (Read more)

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On Saturday, April 16, 2011 I want to thank Taro Knight for nominating me for 2nd vice chair as a county officer. I also want to thank all of the precincts who voted for me.

Roosevelt Higgs nominated Robert Byrd incumbent.

Well I didn’t go to the convention to run for anything however I was asked did I want to run for the chair position and I said no. One thing they are not ready for me because I am capable of running the party without a lot of drama. I had 0 ZER0 drama when I was the interim county chair when Rev. Roy Gray resigned his post in 1998 and also when Dorothy Joyner resigned her post in the early 2000’s. I know I did a damn good job because I had my mess together every meeting.

I have served as 3rd vice chair, 2nd vice, 1st vice and interim chair of the party so I am very much familiar with the Party Plan of Organization. I resigned under the leadership of Higgs back in the early 2000’s and I have not been interested in serving as a county officers because of Safe Negroes within the party have promoted Higgs drama and still continue to do so however he was stripped as a county officer.

I received around 68 votes to Byrd’s 107.

Now a party that talks about getting young people involved although I am 48 I am not in the category with the other officers who are chair around 65, Gladys’ Shelton 1st vice chair is 86, Robert Byrd 2nd vice chair is 65 or plus, and former secretary Leah Vines was 65 or plus. I had to leave the meeting to go video my daughter’s former classmate’s funeral and I heard that Viola Harris around 52 was elected to serve as secretary because from my understanding Vines had long resigned her post shortly after being appointed last year but the chair Allen Mitchell has never made the county executive committee aware. Stephanie Hunter who is 30 plus is the treasurer.

I have no problem with older folks serving up to a certain age because I am older than some folks my self. But to be in the 60 to 80 something category and not doing anything, what good is holding the office but continuing to talk about getting young folks involved? They want to have a title but too damn bad there are not official titles for the office of do nothing but then again yes it is because the Edgecombe County Democratic Party is just that.

Now back to the Safe Negroes who didn’t support me. There were 3 black precincts in Rocky Mount who have lots of votes and they are chaired by Deacon Bernard Bullock, Rev. Lawrence Taylor and Ava somebody. I didn’t receive any of their votes because Bullock don’t like me, Taylor had to do what Edgecombe County Public Schools Chair Evelyn Wilson tell him. Attorney William Solomon who served as the Young Democrats Chair in the past finally showed up again since speaking at a previous convention didn’t support me either. Ava is in the precinct with Shelly Willingham who also don’t like me but Willingham was not present. I can’t remember which one of these precincts Rev. and Edgecombe County Commissioner Wayne Hines is in but he didn’t support me either. They were all sitting together and voted along the same lines. Now don’t think this is all of the Safe Negroes I just named a few. I will be doing a post later listing the Safe Negroes of Edgecombe County who in my opinion, I repeat in my opinion continues to hold us right where we are.

Well I did a Higgs on them, I accepted the nomination so that I could address the convention and also so I could capture on video the Safe Negroes who are holding us right where we are. In my speech I was addressing that group that they didn’t have to like me but know that I will do what is good for the party.

But one thing about me I know I could be good for the party because of my resources, technology skills and connection to politicians across the state.

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Allen Mitchell continues to lead the party to nowhere because he is not political savvy, have no skills to run a meeting and no skills when it comes to technology.

When it comes to the county officers of the Edgecombe County Democratic Party it continues to be the party of do nothing. It is sad that I have to agree with all of what Roosevelt Higgs had to say about the county chair Allen Mitchell. But if Allen Mitchell had done what he should have done, Higgs would not be a member of the Democratic Party.

I told Mitchell last year that I received some calls from Pitt County that Higgs was down there campaigning for Republican C.B. Daughtridge who was running against Democratic Senator Clark Jenkins. Mitchell told me he believed it because he took pictures of Higgs putting up signs for Republican Daughtridge at Edgecombe Community College in Rocky Mount. So why didn’t Mitchell produce the pictures and let the county party deal with Higgs? Because he is scared of Higgs like some others within the party especially Shelton.

I received a letter from Mitchell on Friday asking to support him for the county chair position. I was hoping when I got to the meeting there would be someone else running but when I arrived I was approached and asked did I want to run and I said no. The person said Higgs is going to nominate himself. Well that was nothing new Higgs does it every election but then he backs out after he does his speech for office. He does that just to get to speak on the floor and boy did he let the chair Mitchell have it. It was funny as hell to me.

I went to work at 5:00 am and when I arrived at the meeting Senator Clark Jenkins had already given his address and Mitchell was at the approval of the minutes on the agenda.

Stephanie Hunter treasurer was not present and this is the 3^rd meeting that I have attended and she was not present. Higgs gave the treasurer’s report. Why him he lives in Tarboro with his mother but serves as 1^st chair of a precinct out of Speed. He has not lived in Speed since the flood after his mother’s property was bought out by the county. He lived in a camper trailer on the lot until the county made him move.

Back to the treasurer’s report Higgs did it because he asked Nellie Hunter Stephanie’s mother to run for precinct chair years ago and then by Stephanie being the youngest person to attend the meetings he also asked her to serve since she met the 36 age criteria that one of the county officers should be. Nellie have not attended the meetings regularly since she was ousted as precinct chair.

Hunter told me years ago she felt obligated to Higgs because he asked her to serve as precinct chair. Higgs uses that leverage against Nellie and Stephanie so he is able to manipulate them.

Stephanie lives around the corner from the chair Mitchell they are neighboring precincts. So why didn’t she give the report to the chair?

During the treasurer’s report I asked Higgs what did he say about the check that I turned back in that I received from the party because he said something about it was for poll workers. I said I want the record to show that I do not get paid to do anything in the party but if I was to get paid they could pay me for my video taping something that comes out of my pocket. Higgs said it was listed under poll workers. Gladys Shelton 1^st vice chair went on to say that I did some work at the polls with computers. Mitchell said it was said the party would pay anyone who did some work on the computers. Well what he is referring to is the Edgecombe County Democratic Party FaceBook page in which Christopher Kent and James Knight Jr. were suppose to work that. Kent set up the page and I just happen to stop by the office on the day he did it. He put me down as an administrator so that I could post information on the page and I have done that. I have asked the Mitchell for email addresses so that I could send the party an invite to join the page. I have yet to receive any addresses.

And then it was drama time election of county officers. Mitchell attempted to give some ground rules for the voting process. Higgs challenged him on the rules but see video for further details. Mitchell turned this part of the meeting over to Shelton 1^st vice chair to carry out the election.

Robert Byrd 2^nd vice chair nominated Allen Mitchell for chair.

Roosevelt Higgs nominated himself.

Mitchell were given 3 minutes to address the delegates. Mitchell thanked Byrd for nominating him and for the 2nds that he received. He thanked those who have served for the past 2 years. Mitchell said as we look today to elect leaders for our party for the next 2 years as we hear the questions what went wrong, we know why we lost. The question is what are we going to do about it. That which is gone is gone. As we sit here today in the county and as we look at the books, Mitchell said we have over 2800 registered voters on the books. (He meant 28,000.) Mitchell said he will try to go around to the precincts to work with chairs and vice chairs to hold workshops to come up with an educational strategy to try to get people to the polls. (As a precinct chair I have heard nothing from Mitchell over the 2 years about education and/or other.) Numbers will do no good if people don’t vote.

Mitchell said 2^nd point he is a true Democrat and a true Democrat and will only work to get Democrats elected. He said you are not going to catch him doing anything else for any other party. He said if he can’t work to elect Democrats he is certainly not going to support the opposition and you could take that to the bank.

Mitchell said his 3^rd step we are working on young people and we hear this a lot and we do need to get our young people involved. He said right now we are trying to re-organize our young Democrats to bring them back in the fold and it looked favorable. (Attorney William Solomon former chair Young Democrats Of Edgecombe County showed up again since he spoke at the convention during the last county convention. He did nothing and I never heard anything from him after continuously telling him I would work with him.)

Mitchell asked for our support.

Higgs said he didn’t write out a speech. He said in times like these you don’t need a speech. He said our country, nation, state and county is hurting. He said one reason why we are hurting is because we don’t connect with each other. He said he don’t worry about what is going on in other counties not even in Raleigh and that he feel obligated to reach out and do what he can for Edgecombe County.

Higgs said we have witnessed 2 years of nothing happening in the Edgecombe County Democratic Party. He said he says this without reservations. In the last election if it had not been for Dr. Thomas L. Walker and the Edgecombe Nash Black Political Caucus and the candidates themselves getting out in the community and worked to make things happen you would have a better understanding today. He said because of their efforts it makes it look like the party did more over on main street than they really did. It was a waste of money and a waste of time what the party did. If you look at the treasurer’s report, Higgs said he thank God for our Democratic Party treasurer Stephanie Hunter had not alerted us (he and the ENBPC) we would be standing here today with less than $200.00 in the county party treasurer. But due to her being willing to share with the ENBPC what was going on with the county party treasurer the ENBPC made a contribution to our party. He said they were beginning to cancel the check to the party when they saw people who were suppose to be volunteering getting paid for their services. Higgs said when the ENBPC (as if he is not on Walker’s payroll) was over in Rocky Mount doing the same thing the party was doing and not getting paid and they had a staff. He said while the party had a chair and a Get-Out-The-Vote Coordinator John Wooten who didn’t know anything getting paid.

Higgs said so he is running today to bring some real leadership to the party. He said Mitchell and Wooten were not solely responsible because we as the executive committee of the party allowed some of this to happen when they were doing things on their own and we not holding them accountable. He said we didn’t report back to them what they were doing. He said they called a meeting and if it had not been for Shelton 1^st vice chair they would have gotten more of the money.

Higgs then asked for our vote.

After the precincts caucused for 2 minutes to decide how they would vote, Higgs as usual backed out of the race. And then he talks about a waste of time. But not really. He does what he does so he can address the party. He knows his days as a county officer has been long over and the only reason he is on the executive committee is because he continues to lie that he lives in Speed.

During the county meetings leading up to the past election, Mitchell allowed Higgs to promote the Edgecombe Nash Black Political Caucus and I told him that that should not be happening. I told Mitchell Higgs was going to use that against him. Higgs have said many times in the meetings over the years that the work was done outside of the party.

So why is our treasurer reporting to the Edgecombe Nash Black Political Caucus? So is she a member now?

There need to be a call meeting to recall the chair Allen Mitchell and the treasurer Stephanie Hunter positions on the county executive committee because it is obvious that they do not have the best interest of the party at stake.

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So start taking back your country by taking back your party! by Chris Telesca

So start taking back your country by taking back your party! We’ve already had precinct meetings, but we still have county and district board members and SEC members to elect!

Only elect party officers and SEC members who vow to put the party in charge of the agenda and hold our elected Democratic public officials accountable for how well or poorly they work to turn our party platform into public policy. If they want the blessing and support of the Democratic party (that’s the "D" next to their names) come primary and general election time, they had better work on the party’s behalf as well!

Chris Telesca

Note: Right on!! Right on!! So the good people of Edgecombe County let’s begin the process at the April 16, 2011 Edgecombe County Democratic Party Convention. Be there and support those who have the county and the nation best interest at heart. Put aside the ignorance and look at who are trying to make a difference. You don’t have to like the person but search deep down inside to see if that person is trying to do what is right. We have got to stop committing to others just because they call you or ask you for their support first while not knowing everyone who may be interested in wanting to serve. You see we need to change the way we do things and have everyone that are interested in serving at the county level they should report to the county party by a certain date so that the party can announce these folks who are interested in serving. The majority of the time most folks don’t know who wants to serve until the day of the meeting because the people who wants to serve only contact certain folks and leave the others out. There is much work that needs to be done within the county party so see at the convention. C. Dancy II  – DCN Publisher

North Carolina Democratic Party Precinct Meetings Scheduled 2011

Precinct Meetings will be held February 26 – March 11

County Conventions will be held April 9 – 16

District Convention will be held on May 14th

Democratic National Committee 2012 convention will be in Charlotte, North Carolina starting September 3, 2012

For Polk County Democrat website, Ignorance is bliss – about instant runoff voting–Source: Protect North Carolina Elections – Stop Instant Runoff Voting

Ignorance is bliss if you read what website owner of Polkdemocrats writes. They don’t know or care how the statewide IRV contest will be tallied, in fact they don’t even know that we have top 2 IRV and NOT San Francisco style IRV. Polk Dem’s webmaster says no one cares about this contest so its ok if voters are confused, spoil their ballots, or that results will be hinky. They aren’t worried about the non transparent tallying process, either. Guess it’s be . . .  (Read more)

Note: Once again thank you Joyce McCloy for staying on top of the voter process. Yep, I can believe the ignance because many have no clue about what is happening with IRV and the sad part they don’t seek to find out what is really happening. There should have been more education from the state party about what was about to take place with the IRV. And then again the local branches could have taken it upon themselves to learn and to educate their counties about the process. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher and an Edgecombe County Democratic Party Precinct Chair

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Commissioner Leah S. Vines Pinetops Was Elected Secretary During The Edgecombe County Democratic Party Meeting/James Knight Jr. Spoke On Modern Technology

The Edgecombe County Democratic Party met on Thursday, September 16, 2010 to discuss the November Election. The party also voted Commissioner Leah S. Vines as the county secretary to replace Clara Knight who recently resigned her post. Genoetry Penny-Boone served as the acting secretary for the meeting however she serves on the District level.

Chairman Allen Mitchell chaired the meeting as the Democrats discussed party issues. The party voted on trying to open a headquarters by the end of the month in downtown Tarboro.

Elected officials present were the Honorables NC House Rep. Joe Pat Tolson and Jean Farmer-Butterfield, Clerk of Court Carol Allen White, Register of Deeds Robin Carpenter. Sheriff James Knight was unable to attend however his wife Margaret Knight secretary of her precinct and son James Knight Jr. were present to represent him.

IRV – Instant Runoff Voting was brought up because the seat that was vacated by Judge James (Jim) Wynn on the NC Court of Appeals will be decided in that fashion while all other races will be done in the traditional voting style.

Yours truly spoke about how I am not encouraged by our local party and that we need to get to work. I said it is fine that we talk about our concerns on the National and State levels but what are we doing in Edgecombe County? I said we need to come together as Democrats and have some rallys, forums and etc. I don’t know of a rally since I was the interim chair back in the late 90’s.

Martha Johnson a longtime Democrat and party worker spoke about her concerns that the party from the National to the State to the County need to do more especially as it relates to modern technology.

Pinetops Commissioner Florence Pender spoke about how the party needs to be talking about how we are fired up and ready to go. She agreed with Johnson.

James Knight Jr. the youngest Democrat present who introduced himself as an educator spoke about using modern technology such as FACEBOOK and TWITTER to get the young folks involved. He spoke about how the OBAMA campaign motivated young folks to get involved with the election process during the last Presidential Election. He spoke about how he set up his dad’s FACEBOOK page the Honorable Sheriff James Knight Sr.

Several campaign signs were available for Democrats to take home.

Learn more about IRV – Instant Runoff Voting.

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