In Greensboro, the last general election was only seven weeks ago and another election is on the horizon.
Labor Day is the traditional unofficial kickoff for the fall election season. It certainly doesn’t mean that candidates were not out campaigning and asking for money before Labor Day, but usually it’s not until after Labor Day that the general public starts paying attention.
In Greensboro, it may take people a little longer to take note of the fall election, since the Greensboro City Council election was held Tuesday, July 26.
But whether people are ready or not, the statewide general election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Early voting for the election will run from Thursday, Oct. 20 to Saturday Nov. 5. Absentee ballots will be sent out about a month before the Nov. 8 election day.
The top of the ballot is usually the deciding factor in turnout. This year the top of the ballot is the US Senate Race between Republican 13th District Congressman Ted Budd and Democrat former Chief Justice of the NC Supreme Court Cheri Beasley.
How that race shapes up will largely determine voter turnout. If the race is perceived to be close, voter turnout will be higher than if one of the candidates appears to be running away with it.
In mid-term elections, when there is no presidential election on the ballot, the voter turnout is almost always lower than in presidential election years.
Other than the US Senate race, the only other statewide races on the ballot are for judges. Two seats on the NC Supreme Court are up for election. The NC Supreme Court currently has a 4-to-3 Democratic majority. If Republicans win one of the two races for NC Supreme Court Associate Justice, the Republicans will have a majority.
All of Guilford County is currently in the 6th Congressional District and in that race Democrat 6th District Congresswoman Kathy Manning is being challenged by Republican Christian Castelli.
All the NC state House and state Senate seats, five of nine seats on the Guilford County Board of Commissioners and the Guilford County Board of Education are up for election.
The sheriff of Guilford County and the clerk of court are also on the ballot.
Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump is running unopposed and the three candidates for District Court judge are also unopposed.
No one to blame but those that don’t vote!
Looks like the top race’s are beginning to head for the gutter. Vote your choice and watch the mud fly
Kathy Manning votes in lockstep with Biden and all the other Democrats. She supports her favorite causes; that is causes that Kathy Manning approves of. One of her causes is the American Hebrew Academy.
AHA closed as a school in 2019. There were plans of some sort to reopen the school in 2020 but that did not happen. Since the school has been closed since 2019, why would AHA apply for and be approved for a $743,059 PPP loan from the federal government? The loan was approved May 1, 2020, AND $752,464 was forgiven on August 13, 2021. If the school was closed in 2019, why was the $743,059 loan needed and approved? What expenses did AHA have during Covid, AHA was not in operation?
Someone is making a lot of money for AHA from the pockets of taxpayers. Kathy Manning needs to provide answers as well as the members of the AHA board. How could anyone vote for shyster Manning?
American Hebrew Academy (AHA) was approved for a second-round loan of $753,059 (same amount as first-round) on February 18, 2021, AND $612,363 was forgiven on March 3, 2022. March 3 was after Kathy Manning, Skip Alston, Nancy Vaughn and AHA were already negotiating a $50M deal with the federal government to house illegal aliens in Greensboro. All these players are dishonest and corrupt in their presentation for the purpose of using AHA. It is not for education. Whatever will occur at AHA, education is incidental, not the actual intended use. Therefore, the use of AHA to house illegal aliens violates zoning, and it is all a ruse by the perpetrators of this scheme.
Again, I ask. How did AHA qualify for a first-round and then a second-round PPP Covid loans (our money) that were then forgiven when AHA was not in operation at the time of the loans, $1,506,118.
Legal action should be taken to stop the housing of illegal aliens at AHA until Greensboro can prove that housing the illegal aliens at AHA is for the primary purpose of education and, therefore, meets zoning requirements.
Why would anyone cast a vote for Kathy Manning? She is not Congress material.
You hit the nail on the head about Manning. She’ll do anything the national democratic leadership asks her to do. Mark Walker should have run for her seat in Congress vs his senate race, and he have would have won.