Comments on: Where does John Edwards vote?

By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:49:28 +0000

I agree with you 100%!
I’ve sent Elizabeth a link to this thread

By: Ruby

Ruby — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:33:33 +0000

That’s a valid point, Gerry. I just think that registering and voting in Orange County – where he resides and where his kids are in school – would be a good way for Edwards to practice the community engagement that he preaches to others.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:55:19 +0000

Residence for voting and residence for school assignment are not the same thing. A grad student who comes to Chapel Hill with a spouse and two kids, leaving his residency and voter regsitration in Wisconsin, can send his kids to Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools, they don’t have to be out on the bus twice a day to Wisconson.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:35:01 +0000

I’m sorry I mentioned their legal names. It’s really not important. I just thought it was interesting.

If their Chapel Hill apartment is temporary (which we know it is, in a sense), how do they get to enroll their kids in Chapel Hill schools (which started in August, before September 11)?

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:16:02 +0000

I know for a fact that John and Elizabeth both voted by absentee ballot in last week’s Raleigh Mayoral election, and if they view their apartment in Chapel Hill as a temporary residence they are fully within their rights to vote in Wake County until their permanent residence is built. In any case if they moved to their apartment AFTER September 11, they were ONLY eligible to vote in Wake County on October 11. As to their legal name, John and Elizabeth both voted at the early voting site in Raleigh I staffed last November, John signed his authorization to vote in front of me as “Johnny”.

By: WillR

WillR — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:16:29 +0000

Ruby, I wished I’d gone to see if he plans to vote – hell, maybe even ask him to vote for me – but it wasn’t in the cards. On the upside, Laurin E. made it over and got to shake his hand.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:39:28 +0000

Janet, while they are not in the city limits (yet) they are in the city school system (as opposed to the county system which serves the more rural part of the county). Their neighborhood is what I like to call a “pre-suburb.” It’s just a matter of time.

By: m.c.

m.c. — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:27:30 +0000

Last I heard, Cate the eldest is an editorial asst. in NYC for Vanity Fair, Graydon Carter’s mag.

Early political handicapping says Edwards is in direct competition(read fundraising) with Wesley Clark and Evan Bayh of Indiana for the ’08 primary sunbelt vote. If D. Kucinich puts his money where his mouth is and many follow suit, the ’08 primary might actually be interesting and not a foregone conclusion…. cheers

By: janet

janet — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:05:24 +0000

Umm… I guess you must be right about the elections. However, what is the mockery of the “rural” area for? Are they not moving to a 100 acre rural farm land? At least, that is what I heard them say or saw being reported.

And, I’m not talking about their temporary housing, but the eventual residence.

As for missing the election, well, I guess you can hold that against them then…

By: Ruby

Ruby — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:48:38 +0000

Janet, I’m guessing you are not from around here since you think that they are moving to a “rural” area and that there are no elections this year.

In North Carolina, we have municipal elections in odd years. One of the races the Edwards will be failing to vote in is for the School Board that runs the city school district in which they live. The deadline to register for this fall election was October 14.

So Bora (Coturnix), the time has come… and gone.

John Edwards needs to practice what he preaches!