Vote for Paul on Tuesday! Find your polling location here.Paul Coble Won the Wake County Convention Straw Poll!A packed house of Republicans attended the Wake County Republican Convention Thursday night and nearly 500 voted in the straw poll for their choice for Congressman. The results: Paul Coble: 53.6% (268 votes) Bill Randall: 27.8% (127 votes) George Holding: 18.6% (93 votes) Voters know that Washington is broken and bankrupting the nation. They know we need women and men going to Washington with business experience and a track record of cutting spending, balancing budgets and common sense. No one knows the candidates better than Republican activists. On Thursday night, Republicans overwhelmingly chose Paul Coble! To see full straw poll results, click here. |
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Budget surplus forseen in Wake County
For the first time in three years, Wake County is crafting a budget without the looming certainty of cuts in programs and personnel, county commissioners learned Friday.
In fact, if projections hold up, the county's operating budget for the year starting July 1 should have a surplus of some $4.8 million.
But along with the news of a potential small surplus in a nearly $1 billion budget came a pile of demands and requests for ways to spend that money, along with other revenue perhaps to be gleaned from bonds or sales taxes.
Chairman Paul Coble argued that the budget should be crafted from the start assuming no increase in the property tax rate of 53.4 cents per $100 of assessed value. Read the full article here.
Wake commissionsers endorse voter ID bill
A divided Wake County board of commissioners plunged into the emotional debate over voting rights Monday, endorsing along party lines a state bill that would require photo identification at the polls.
The 4-to-3 decision came after a series of heated exchanges pitting Democrats against board Chairman Paul Coble, a Republican locked in a competitive primary for the U.S. House.
Coble and the Republican majority cited the need to combat voter fraud. Coble said a recent Morrisville election decided by a handful of votes shows the importance of preventing possible voting fraud at all levels. Read the full article here.
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