If I Could Have A Moment Of Your Time…

If I Could Have A Moment Of Your Time…

I canvassed with Eugene this past fall and was impressed with his grasp of the issues and his solutions. I'm impressed by the broad coalition of volunteers and staff he has been surrounded himself with -- people who are energizing their networks and creating one of the most professionally run campaigns I've ever seen in the city. It is gratifying to see (and work with!) younger people energized by stepping up to do the work of making sure that Wilmington is a great place for them to live in and work in. The diversity and outreach in this campaign is awe-inspiring. Eugene is campaigning across the entire city, in every community. That's refreshing and smart. Far too often candidates for mayor focus solely on certain communities. Even worse, a few pit communities against each other by employing fear and the familiar "tough on crime" stance, dividing the city into "us and them". It's also no secret that campaigns need contributions. It's also also no secret that our city needs a new direction and vision. I believe the person capable of setting us on a new path is Eugene Young. So I'm calling on (really, asking) the DL statewide community (because you guys are awesome!) to contribute to Eugene's campaign. In order to keep track of our awesomeness please add .16 to your contribution. (You know... 25.16)
Thursday Open Thread [3.24.16]

Thursday Open Thread [3.24.16]

Jonah Goldberg says the Republican Party is over: “Nominating Donald Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it. Not nominating Trump will wreck the Republican Party as we know it. The sooner everyone recognizes this fact, the better.” “Denial has been Trump’s greatest ally. Republicans and commentators didn’t believe he would run. They didn’t believe he could be an attractive candidate to rational people, no matter how angry with “the establishment” voters said they were. They – which includes me – were wrong.” “Trump represents just the most pronounced of a spiderweb of ideological and demographic fault lines that are increasingly difficult to paper over. As Joel Kotkin put it in a column for the Orange County Register, the Republican Party now ‘consists of interest groups that so broadly dislike each other that they share little common ground.’ Put simply, and with the incessant and obtuse comparisons of Trump to Reagan notwithstanding, you cannot have a party that’s both Reaganite and Trumpish.”
13,395 Votes

13,395 Votes

145 votes may not seem like a lot, but considering the margins from prior failed referenda: 2000 votes in February 2015, 900 votes in May 2015, there appears to be a trend emerging. 8100 total votes in February, 11,000 in May, 13,395 tonight. We closed a gigantic gap in a little over 1 year and got this referendum passed. There will be much analysis to come, but for right now I just want to give the unofficial final tally, and throw up a quick graphic of the percent change in turnout totals from May 2015 to March 2016. Our city of Wilmington community came through HUGE for u