‘Let Asheville Vote’ petition drive sinking
Kassandra “Special K” Pride told us that a “cursory” look through the petition signatures submitted by the “Let Asheville Vote” group on Monday shows that a petition drive to force a public vote on partisan elections could fall 41 votes shy of the 5,000 needed.
Special K said there are hundreds of names with wrong addresses, which means those names are not valid signatures. The group turned in more than 6,000 signatures.
Special K quoted City Councilman Brownie Newman, who was chuckling under his breath the whole time while he was talking. Brownie voted for the change from non-partisan to partisan elections, so he was taking no small delight in the demise of the petition drivers.
These petition drives are notoriously difficult. You really have to be on your game to be sure you get valid signatures, and that takes an incredible amount of time and effort.
In other news…
Residents on Merrimon Avenue, Beaverdam and Marlboro streets on Saturday many have experienced low or no water pressure. No reason why was given… Clyde police are looking for a man who forged a Hometrust Bank employee’s name to cash a $4,800 check… Gov. Mike Easley signed an executive order that let’s educators spend $114 million while state lawmakers continue to hash out a state budget…
There was a golf tournament to raise money for the A.G. Cogdill college fund at Tuscola and Pisgah high schools. Cogdill was a state trooper killed while standing on the side of I-40 a few years ago. After his death, the state passed its “move over” law… The WNC Nature Center held its annual reptile beauty pageant. A corn snake named Rocky was named best of show… Booksellers around town had plenty of Harry Potter books for the masses that snapped up “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” early Saturday morning… There was a garden party to save the historic Jarrett House in West Asheville. The house was built in the late 1800s and is on the National Historic Register. The community wants to buy the house and build a park and renovate it… And Julie Wunder said that Saturday morning, we tied a record low of 57 for that date. The record low of 57 was first recorded at the Asheville airport on July 21 in 2004.
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The Jarrett House is not that big an issue for most of us who live here.
Honestly, the plans they have for it suck.
This seems to come up every summer when the thing is listed with a different realtor.
I am not sure what is really going on there.
I haven’t had low water pressure. Low blood pressure, maybe.