Editorial: Don't let others decide for you, vote!
Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 -- Rest assured, voters WILL determine next week who will lead North Carolina's local governments. None of us need to, or should, cede that decision to anyone else - especially someone with whom we might disagree. Get out and vote.
Posted — Updated“Americans are sharply divided.” It is the mantra these days from the nation’s political commentators and talking heads.
The reality is just the opposite. The vast majority of North Carolinians and Americans are united in apathy.
Last month 85 percent of Raleigh’s registered voters were united in avoiding the polls for the primary election for mayor.
A month earlier, 92 percent of Charlotte’s voters failed to participate in that city’s mayoral primary. Just 21,850 voters out of 544,908 – 4 percent – decided for all of the city to oust incumbent Mayor Jennifer Roberts. Is it true that 96 percent of Charlotte’s voters had no opinion or didn’t care whether she continued in office; about how she did her job; whether she needed to be replaced?
Elections matter. Just ask Jennifer Roberts.
If you want to hear more about McFarlane’s vision, and the views of her opponent Charles Francis, the two are the guests of Anchor David Crabtree on WRAL-TV’s “On the Record,” broadcast at 7 tonight.
Rest assured, voters WILL determine next week who will lead North Carolina’s local governments. None of us need to, or should, cede that decision to anyone else – especially someone with whom we might disagree.
Get out and vote, make voting count even more by taking someone with you. Voting is the only way to get the kind of government you want.
Don’t vote? Don’t complain.
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