Campaign update/new endorsements/busy week!

[sally greene]

Dear friends,

This is the storm before the calm, the busiest time of election season, an exciting, energizing, and exhausting time. Since I last wrote, three endorsements have come out. Along with the other three incumbents, I am honored to have received all of them:

Hank Anderson Breakfast Club, which describes itself as "a group of Chapel Hill/Carrboro community leaders that has met regularly every Saturday morning for over 20 years to discuss and influence the public policy decisions made by local governments that affect African Americans in this area."

Friends of Affordable Housing, a group of housing advocates that has been organized for about 10 years.

The Independent Weekly--which wrote, "[Sally's] platform is based on inclusiveness, tolerance, open and participatory government, and social, economic and environmental justice. If elected, she plans to continue working on the homelessness initiative, tree protection and affordable housing. She favors a constructive approach to panhandling, working with social services to get people off the streets."

The whole Indy story is here: http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A162838

These endorsements, plus the Sierra Club, which has already been announced, are ones that I also received in 2003. It's even more meaningful to receive them after four years of building a record of service to the community.

But the best endorsement I've had so far comes from Brian Russell on his blog. Thank you, Brian! I can only hope to live up to what you've said here.

http://www.yesh.com/blog/2007/10/15/im-voting-for-sally-greene/


Girls for Greene

Last night, the Kings Mill-Morgan Creek neighborhood women hosted a wonderful party for me at the home of Jackie Hagan. It was a special treat to have Sen. Kinnaird in attendance. Thanks to Jackie and the other hosts and all who came out to this truly special party! Pictured in the attachment are Jackie Hagan, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, me, and good neighbor Florry Glasser.


ESL class this morning

This morning I was guest speaker in Derek Keever's ESL class at Durham Tech, which he teaches in space at Chapel of the Cross. What a delight to talk to these people! Almost all of them either were visiting scholars from South Korea or (in a couple of cases) Japan, or were married to visiting scholars or grad students from the same countries. Most of them were affiliated not with UNC . . . but with Duke! What are they doing taking a course in Chapel Hill? They live here. Their professors or peers at Duke told him they'd be better off living in Chapel Hill. I found that very interesting. They were a most receptive audience to learning about processes of town government and electoral politics. It was embarrassing to tell them that the percentage of voters in Chapel Hill municipal elections has of late been under 20 percent. They asked really good questions. Best of all, they were most hospitable--they'd prepared a reception of homemade madeleines, macaroons, a delicious nut pie, and fruit (to ease the guilt).


UNC student government forum

Tonight, the Chapel Hill and Carrboro candidates participated in a forum on campus sponsored by the student government association. We appreciate the students for putting the event together and for being involved in local government.


Project Homeless Connect

Tomorrow is the day for Project Homeless Connect! I will be speaking at 8:30 to kick off the event, then volunteering later in the day. I'm very excited about what this event will mean to the homeless in our community--and to the rest of us. I'll be doing a couple of shifts of volunteer work in the afternoon.


Friends of Downtown Chapel Hill

I'll take a break from the homelessness project to go to participate in a forum at 10 a.m. sponsored by the Friends of Downtown Chapel Hill.


Lecture on women in politics

Thursday evening I'll be introducing a speaker in Gardner Hall (Room 105) sponsored by the Carolina Women's Center. Jennifer Lawless, who teaches political science at Brown, will be speaking on a topic from a book she co-wrote of the same title: "It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office." Her explorations into the subject of women and United States electoral politics should be very interesting.


Preservation North Carolina conference

All day Friday, I will be in Raleigh attending the annual conference of Preservation North Carolina, an organization whose work is very important to me; I'm a member of their state advisory board.


Coker Hills, etc. precinct forum

On Saturday at 3 p.m., we have another candidate forum--sponsored by the Democratic precinct of Coker Hills and a number of other precincts.


Early voting

I voted today at the old Post Office. I was number 51, and it was the third day of early voting already. Please remember that you have this option!


Volunteer opportunities

Early voting continues this week, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and again from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 3rd. I couldu se volunteers to hand out flyers at the Old Post Office. Please let Tom Jensen know at tje...@email.unc.edu know  if there are any times you can help out with that.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 6th from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.  I particularly need volunteers during the morning rush from 7 to 9 a.m. and the afternoon rush from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.  But any time during the day you can help is much appreciated.  Please e-mail Tom to let him know when you can work and what precinct you would like to work at.


Again thanks for all of your support. It means a lot!

Cheers,
Sally