This is directed at the Wake County Democratic Party, not the State or National office.
The local county Dems are usually more of a get out the vote organization, especially in an election year, than a “pick the winners between Democrats in local races” kind of organization.
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I know. And I still stand by what I said.
Fair enough, I can accept your point. I was just making sure that wasn’t a misunderstanding or anything.
the people in Raleigh elected leadership need to stay out of national policy issues like these, just like others have said. If they wanna dabble in the middle east, run for President, lord knows we have shitty choices this year as it is, and yes, even after Biden dropping out.
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Whenever the subject of international politics came up I kept envisioning the mayor riding into battle. A Photoshop cross of MAB and Patton would be interesting but I’m inept.
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Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaking in Raleigh today:
“There’s a serious housing shortage. In many places, it’s too difficult to build, & it’s driving prices up. As President, I will work in partnership with industry to build the housing we need to rent and to buy. We will take down barriers & cut red tape, including at the state & local levels. [cheers] And by the end of my first term, we will end America’s housing shortage by building 3,000,000 new homes that are affordable for the middle class [more cheers], and we will do that together.”
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Writing legislation as it is recommended by the lobbyists of the publicly traded home builders…
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Sorry to be snarky/cynical. This is why I’m a Strong Towns advocate. Who benefits from high housing prices? Banks, builders, home owners, secondary mortgage market, landlords, governments, developers.
Who benefits from lower housing prices? The poor, renters,…?
I have little faith in top down solutions. The incentives just aren’t there after election day. Subsidizing demand with first time buyer assistance is a bamboozlement for the market at large, similar to IZ. Tax breaks for national builders to build starter homes is dumping fuel in the suburban ponzi scheme. What can the white house do to incentivize better city building infill housing in Raleigh?
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I have little faith in top down solutions. The incentives just aren’t there after election day. Subsidizing demand with first time buyer assistance is a bamboozlement for the market at large, similar to IZ. Tax breaks for national builders to build starter homes is dumping fuel in the suburban ponzi scheme. What can the white house do to incentivize better city building infill housing in Raleigh?
You’ve never seen top down solutions before since we’ve lived under 40 years of Reagan’s trickle-down philosophy in action in government. That clearly hasn’t been working so I’m willing to try something else. This is the first time in my life that a presidential candidate has run on directly addressing the housing crisis and it’s appreciated. National politics really hasn’t delved into this arena in decades.
The point about breaking up the rental cartel that is suffocating our cities is really good. If you support the “free market” that should be a no-brainer. Because a large percentage of landlords are colluding, rent is currently behaving monopolistically, not adhering to supply and demand.
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Bailing out Wall Street and pumping billions of dollars of QE into the economy to reinflate the housing bubble wasn’t a top-down solution?
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Fun fact Tim Walz voted against the Wall Street bailout in 2008.
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Wake Dems did go ahead and endorse, but this time didn’t copy LR’s endorsements.
WCDP’s Endorsed Raleigh City Candidates are Janet Cowell (Mayor); Jonathan Melton and Stormie Forte (At Large, 2 seats); Mitchell Silver (District A); Megan Patton (District B); Tolulope Omokaiye (District C); Jane Harrison (District D); and Christina Jones (District E).
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The link to the questionnaire offers some insight into Council members thoughts on an array of topics, including RHA move…
They backed, Christina Jones. 
I’m sure she’s a nice persona and I don’t know her, never met her, so all I know is her from the days of CACs and now as a sitting council woman. I’d rather her be doing something else.
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I don’t know if I’d call her a NIMBY outright, but her overall process for discussing action items is very similar to a NIMBY’s. She mostly focuses on problems, and things that need to change, rather than solutions, and ways to make the needed change.
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Glad they went with Melton and Silver, but not crazy about Jones and Omokaiye.
I got a newsletter from Raleigh Forward (aka the opposite of Liveable Raleigh group), that they’ll be announcing their own endorsements early Sept. I predict they’ll probably endorse Cerqueira over Jones and Branch over Omokaiye.
For mayor, I predict most factions coalescing on Janet Cowell united in order to prevent the worst-case scenrio of Fitts (aka “Tom Fetzer Redux”, aka Mark Robinson’s buddy).
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You are correct. That would be horrifying!!!
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Funnily enough, his “issues” page has some of this board’s biggest wishlist items - DPAC rival, bigger + better police presence, affordable housing, moving the prision - along with some wtf pieces like a casino and hating light rail
What did Corey Branch do to hurt the Wake County Democrats? Dude has been done dirty twice by this process! Still makes me feel a little dirty thinking the Wake County Dems feel like they know what is best for district C and Southeast Raleigh than the actual voters there do. Corey won this district easily with Wake Dems endorsing someone else last time which should really tell you something.
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No idea. He’s my rep and I’ll still be voting for him.
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