Pardon me while I throw this one under the bus.....

[DarylB]

Sometimes you just have to ask "why"!

What is the connection that would entice Vickie Maxwell to support Julie Robison so strongly, and to be a part of the CCF juggernaut of the "Perky Princess" parade..... yes, she can raise money, and yes she can attend dinners, something that has become a highly refined practice of the current "build-it/develop it/kill the trees" committee of 7 crowd with Mayor McBackhoe leading the hardhats to victory. But....

I have to ask, with the allegiances she's formed, is she going to be a part of the solution, or is she just a part of the problem... and ready to act as a card carrying member of the complex current inner workings of "Developers Gone Wild"? Can you really expect to "Clean House", which I think there's a pretty strong case for, if you then make the mistake of electing into office the as yet unelected members of the presently entrenched "Cleaning Crew"?

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photos3777/1/23/94/89/2/4/402899423111_0_ALB.jpg

[d4vendel]

Link?

[DarylB]

Link?

That's what I'm trying to figure too.... what's the link? Is she just another tentacle of the development octopus, as it seems, or am I just seeing a series of coincidental "links"?


Pickpockets with a wine glass are still pickpockets in my book, just slightly better dressed versions.

[d4vendel]

No. By "Link" I mean that your link to the picture or whatever you are trying to show does not work. The little red X does not tell me much.

[DarylB]

My old problem of my website's not being visible has once again bitten ... I've sent the image to Hyatt to post.... and my concerns remain just as I posted them...


You may also remember my July 19th posting, reference Susan Lawson/Barry Shuster.... same CCF tentacle


'A feel-good night for everybody'

http://media.carynews.com/smedia/2007/03/26/13/256-gala6.0328.gh.embedded.prod_affiliate.29.jpg
Guests congregate on a balcony outside of the Umstead Hotel as they enjoy coctails before the start of Saturday's Cary Community Foundation gala.

Foundation detailsFoundation details The Cary Community Foundation was founded in 2005 as a way to solicit private philanthropy to fund projects in Cary. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization plans to use donated money to provide several forms of grants and endowments to community organizations and projects deemed worthy by CCF committee members. Board members hope to raise a “founders fund” by the end of 2007 by seeking both private and corporate donations, the money from which will be used to give the first grants. Grants could be given to fund anything from public-arts projects to social-services organizations that would have a “clear impact on the community,” said board member Worth Durgin. Possible future projects that the CCF might contribute to include and aquatics center and a performing arts center. For more information see www.carycommunityfoundation.org.

By Emily Matchar, Staff Writer
“It’s really kind of a feel-good night for everybody,” said Sheila Ogle, surveying the crowd gathered in the ballroom of the new Umstead Hotel.
On Saturday evening about 180 local residents were dressed to the hilt for a black-and-white themed black-tie dinner dance to benefit the Cary Community Foundation.

Guests sipped cocktails and wine, dined on steak and mahi mahi and were treated to a concert by renowned pop music pianist Emile Pandolfi, who donated his talents to the foundation.

Invitations to the event were by sponsorship only, with a minimum of $2,500 per couple.

The men were dapper in tuxes and vests, the women wore an array of gowns in black, white, or any combination of both in patterns from stripes to leopard spots.

“This has been a wonderful party to plan,” said board member Phyllis Eller Moffett, who helped organize the event. The black- and-white theme was her idea. “I love a party with a theme,” she said.

Moffett was the mastermind behind the ballroom floral arrangements, picking out enormous vases full of exotic flora like cala lilies and magenta ginger flowers.

The biggest challenge for Moffett was when she discovered that the newly opened Umstead did not have a grand piano for Pandolfi.

That’s where Richard Ruggero came in. The owner of Richard Ruggero Piano in Raleigh, Ruggero donated a top-of-the-line Fazioli grand piano for the evening. He also offered to donate some of the piano’s proceeds, should it later sell, to the foundation.

“This is sort of the groundbreaking, the coming out of the foundation,” said Garold Smith, a CCF board member who helped organize the event, which raised about $150,000 for the organization. Board members made themselves known with a magnolia blossom pinned to their lapel or the neckline of their dress.

Notable guests included Mayor Ernie McAlister, Cary town council member and CCF president Jennifer Robinson, former Cary mayor Koka Booth and SAS Institute’s Jim and Ann Goodnight. Ann Goodnight is responsible for bringing The Umstead Hotel to Cary. Barry Shuster and his wife, Susan Lawson, stood near the entrance before the dinner, sipping glasses of wine and chatting with arriving guests. Shuster, a board member, got involved with the CCF near the beginning, when he donated his services as an attorney to the foundation.

“We love this place,” said Shuster, of Cary. “It’s home and we want to do as much as we can for it.”

Contact Emily Matchar at 460-2607 or ematchar@nando.com

http://www.carynews.com/102/story/5881.html

[dhyatt]

This is the picture Daryl's been referring to...

http://carypolitics.org/images/Fundraiser_for_Robison.jpg

[d4vendel]

Wait a minute!

Julie Robinson?!?!?

Jennifer Weiss?!?!?

Janet Cowell?!?!? and so on....

Paid for by the Julie Robinson For Cary Town Council At-Large Committee??!!??

I thought that Vickie Maxwell was a registered Republican!

I guess she never planned to get an endorsement from her party if she ever decided to run for public office any time after 2005....

:dontknow:

[Wuptdo]

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On behalf of all us stockholders in Goodyear and FireStone, thank you North Carolina taxpayers! :-D :-D

Gov. "Tax Hike" Mike and NCGL, a special Thanks to you. :D :D

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Wuptdo B-)

[d4vendel]

I'm still trying to figure out how a vetoed $40M subsidy turned into a $60M subsidy......

Nelson, Skip, and others - thanks for trying at least trying to hold the line on this one!

[DarylB]

I'm still trying to figure out how a vetoed $40M subsidy turned into a $60M subsidy......

Nelson, Skip, and others - thanks for trying at least trying to hold the line on this one!

Stan gave you the inside look on how that happens, as if you needed him to spell it all out, when he spoke of how the toll roads would go....and so it is with the Goodyear deal as well.....


He and Rand and Basnight and Hackney and the Governor will work it out behind closed doors The house Finance Committee is a big player and Rep Weiss is one of several co-chairs. Its too complicated for 170 legislators to work out. (Ty wont be directly involved in the negotiations.) It won't be resolved until the 2009 long session.

It's the way it's been worked by Jim Black, and it's the way it was worked way back when the Dems took over NC politics at the point of a gun in 1898..... should we now suddenly expect something better? Crime does pay, when you're connected well enough...