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CAMPUS BRIEFS
UNC student charged with
possession of stolen vehicle
Michael Woods, a part-time
UNC student, was arrested at 1:51
p.m. Sunday for the possession of
a stolen Ford Taurus, University
police reports state.
Woods, 24, was charged with
felony possession of a stolen vehicle
and two misdemeanors fictitious
plates and no operator’s license,
reports state.
Woods’ home address, 1943
Robinhood Road in Winston-
Salem, matches that of Kristy
Freeman Woods, who owns
the stolen vehicle, according to
reports.
Reports state that Woods was
taken to the Chapel Hill Police
Department, where he signed a
written promise to appear Monday
at Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough.
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Resident of Bolinwood
Drive raped by boyfriend
A rape occurred at 3:09 a.m.
Monday in a residence off of
Bolinwood Drive, Chapel Hill
police reports state.
According to reports, the per
petrator, who was the victim’s boy
friend, held down and raped the
victim, who was not a student.
2 men charged with indecent
exposure in separate cases
Two unrelated cases of indecent
exposure were reported Monday,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
The first incident occurred at
10:10 a.m. on Bolin Creek Trail,
when victims observed Robert
John Conrady, 23, 0f2604 Garden
Road in East Greensboro, touching
himself on the bench beside the
bridge, said police spokeswoman
Jane Cousins.
Officers came slowly down the
path in a squad car, but Conrady
fled when they approached, she
said.
An investigation led officers to
121 Meadowbrook Drive, where
Conrady was arrested and charged
with indecent exposure and resist
ing arrest, both misdemeanors,
reports state.
He was taken to Orange County
Jail to be held on a secured $2,500
bond. He will appear Nov. 22 in
Orange County District Court in
Hillsborough.
A second incident occurred
around 5 p.m. when a red pickup
truck with a confederate flag on the
front and a noisy muffler pulled up
beside a school bus full of children
on Seawell School Road near Estes
Drive, Cousins said.
The bus driver realized after he
had pulled away that the man had
exposed himself, Cousins said.
Police still are investigating the
incident.
Teen charged with stolen
car, concealed weapon
A 16-year-old has been arrested
and charged with possession of a
stolen vehicle, a felony, and car
rying a concealed weapon, a mis
demeanor, in connection with a
collision with a police patrol car,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
Spokeswoman Jane Cousins
said an attempted robbery was
reported at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday off
Sykes Street.
Responding officers found a car
with a similar description to that
used in the robbery and followed it
to Franklin Street, she said.
The car collided with a patrol
car in the intersection of Franklin
and Columbia streets, and all
three occupants tried to flee, she
said.
Two of the occupants escaped,
but police apprehended and arrest
ed Lamar Bass, a passenger.
The vehicle, a green 1996 four
door Buick, was determined to be
stolen, and police found a handgun
in the car, she said.
Police still are investigating the
robbery, Cousins said.
Bass was taken to the Orange
County Jail and was set to appear
Tuesday in Orange County District
Court in Hillsborough.
5 laptops stolen during local
Halloween night parties
More than $17,000 in laptops
was reported stolen from five dif
ferent Halloween night parties,
Chapel Hill police reports state.
According to reports, a total of
six laptops were stolen from resi
dences on Cameron Avenue, East
Rosemary Street, Yates Court,
Airport Road and Fraternity
Court.
Other items stolen in the inci
dents include telephone equipment
and three beer keg taps, reports
state.
Police have not speculated yet
whether other students or area
criminals were involved in the
larcenies, said spokeswoman Jane
Cousins.
From staff reports.
Foushee, Carey lead for BOCC
Merger proposal
is pivotal issue
BY TED STRONG
STAFF WRITER
The Election Day tallies for two
open seats on the Orange County
Board of Commissioners clearly
established front-runners.
But as of press time, there still
remained more than 30,000 pro
visional and absentee ballots to
be counted before official winners
could be declared.
Based on Election Day returns,
Democrat Valerie Foushee led the
pack of four candidates for the coun
ty board with 18,516 votes, incum
bent Moses Carey Jr. was in second
with 16,652 votes, Republican
Jamie Daniel had 12,021 votes and
Libertarian Artie Franklin had gar
nered 3,446 votes.
All four candidates were com
peting for two open seats on the
five-person board.
Foushee was pleased by her
progress but still cautious about
celebrating.
“I’m pleased, I’m honored and
I’m humbled,” she said. “I don’t
take anything for granted, so I’m
just looking forward to what the
final tallies are and hopeful that I
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U.S. Rep. David Price waves to the crowd with his wife, Lisa, after giving his victory speech at the Raleigh
Convention Center on Tuesday. Price was elected to a ninth term in the House, winning 62 percent of the vote.
PRICE BULLDOZES
PATH TO 9TH TERM
BY MARK PUENTE
AND LAURA YOUNGS
STAFF WRITERS
RALEIGH As many
Democratic candidates waited anx
iously for votes to be tabulated, U.S.
Rep. David Price took center stage
to thank supporters for sending him
to a ninth term in the House.
“My heartfelt thanks goes to the
voters of the 4th Congressional
District for allowing me to represent
them in the 109th Congress,” Price
said. “Tonight, we have a wonderful
outpouring of democracy.”
Price gave his victory speech
about 10 p.m. after Gov. Mike
Easley’s victory speech. Price gar
nered 62 percent of the vote, and
his Republican opponent, Todd
Batchelor, won 38 percent.
Price has enjoyed success in his
last three contests by picking up
more than 55 percent of the vote.
Price also is accustomed to deliv
ering victory speeches. He has been
defeated only once in 10 elections.
With a raucous crowd cheering
exuberantly, Price told supporters
Insko garners sth term in unopposed House race
BY ERIC JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
At about 8:30 p.m. on Election
Day, as Verla Insko sat monitor
ing the first returns in a dozen
close races for the N.C. House, her
thoughts suddenly turned to her
own re-election bid.
“Let’s see if I have any votes yet!”
she exclaimed, scrolling through
the list of House districts on her
computer screen.
“Nothing yet,” she said, but that
was hardly cause for alarm.
Insko was unopposed in her
bid for a fifth term as state repre
sentative from the 56th District,
a Democratic stronghold that
encompasses Orange County.
She has occasionally faced
token opposition from Republican
or Libertarian candidates, but
am successful.”
Daniel was not yet ready to con
cede the election. “I think that the
second seat is still up for grabs.”
Carey said he was pulling for
both Democratic candidates.
“I think (Foushee) has earned the
opportunity to serve because of the
race she ran in the primary,” said
Carey, who spent the early evening
watching the returns come in from
Orange County with his family.
“We had a nice meal earlier
tonight, and my daughters and
my grandson came over to spend a
little time with me,” Carey said.
If Carey holds on to his second
place position, he will be adding to
a tenure that already has spanned
20 years.
After nearly all of the precinct
ballots had been counted, Carey
said he was pleased that he and
Foushee were topping the ballot.
One major issue in this year’s
election was the difference in per
pupil funding between Orange
County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City schools.
In 2003, Carey introduced the
idea of merging the county and city
school systems.
Since then, all three other candi
dates have come out in opposition
of the proposal, though Franklin
said a merger could be necessary
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that when he returns to the nation’s
capital, he intends to continue work
ing hard for his district
“I promise that I will remember
your hard work when I return to
Washington, D.C. You have worked
very, very hard, and the results will
show it when the totals come in.”
One constituent who moved
to Cary from Palm Beach County,
Fla., in 2000 said Price is well
versed in international affairs.
Haluk Keskinger voted for Price
because the congressman knows the
issues Tlirkish-Americans face.
“Price has international aware
ness of what is going on," Keskinger
said. “Hopefully, in another two
years, we will benefit from his
policies.”
As an incumbent in a district
with strong Republican support,
Price has acknowledged that he
must reach across party lines.
Much of his district lies in Orange
and Durham counties, Democratic
strongholds, but he also must win
support from parts of GOP-heavy
Wake County.
none filed to run against her this
year.
“It’s a lot less stressful,” she said.
“I don’t worry about losing.”
With her own electoral future in
no danger, Insko spent most of her
evening tracking other state races
online and listening for television
updates on the national race.
With only sparse results avail
able for N.C. House races, Insko
was hopeful that Democrats might
be able to gain enough seats to elect
their own speaker for the next ses
sion. With a near-even split after
the last round of House elections,
the body has been operating under
a power-sharing agreement that
provided for co-speakers and joint
committee chairmen.
While that arrangement has
been manageable, Insko said, it
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at some point in the future —a
question he said should be put to
a voter referendum.
“The primary election this year
is probably the closest I’ve ever
experienced, and that is because I
raised a controversial issue in the
school merger,” Carey said.
Carey narrowly defeated two
other Democratic candidates in
the July 20 primary, including
incumbent commissioner Margaret
Brown, to advance to the general
election. Foushee was the leading
Democratic vote-getter.
Other alternatives to the merger,
in the form of either adding a sepa
rate tax in Orange County or tax
ing both the county and the towns
together, have been proposed, but
Carey said he still supports a merg
er, saying it is the only way to solve
the problem in the long run.
Carey primarily ran on his posi
tion of funding equality and his
experience. “The public knows that
I’m sincere about trying to repre
sent the interests of all the residents
in the county.”
Foushee, who strongly opposed
the merger, emphasized her expe
rience as well.
“I’d like to think that (my suc
cess) has something to do with the
services that I’ve already given the
county,” she said.
Tom Hampton of Raleigh
said Price has done many things
for voters in his predominately
Republican neighborhood.
“Part of Price’s secret is he pro
vides excellent constituent services,”
he said. “He constantly reaches out
to people. Many Republicans vote
for him because they can call him.”
He added that Price’s only
defeat in the mid-1990s taught
him a lesson.
“Being a loyal Democrat, I
believe he learned from former
Senator Jesse Helms about con
stituent services.”
Back at GOP headquarters at the
Brownstone Hotel, the mood was
more somber yet no less optimistic
as hundreds of people packed them
selves into the ballroom.
Batchelor said Tuesday’s
results left him determined, not
disheartened.
“If I inspired one person to
run for office or to get involved
in politics ... it was worth it,” said
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has kept more controversial items
off the chamber’s agenda.
“If Democrats have a major
ity, we might could elect our own
speaker,” Insko said.
“For me, that would mean a
chairmanship of a committee by
myself, and it would mean we
could deal with some of the issues
that are important to the state.”
The power-sharing, she said, has
been amicable but difficult.
“It’s hard enough work to nego-
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Orange County Commissioner Moses Carey Jr. speaks to a reporter
while in his home Tuesday night. He won 16,652 votes in the election.
She has served on the city board
of education since 1997.
Daniel ran his campaign based
largely on the merger question but
also publicly questioned the county
schools’ fund-raising policy.
Franklin, who along with his
opposition to merger ran a campaign
for representation reform, said he
hoped his campaign would have an
impact beyond Election Day.
Kinnaird beats
‘Whit’ to keep
place in Senate
BY INDIA AUTRY
AND HILARY HELLENS
STAFF WRITERS
Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, D-Orange,
beat out Republican Robert
“Whit” Whitfield in the race for
the 23rd N.C. Senate District. The
win was long anticipated but not
guaranteed.
“I’d better not count any chick
ens yet,” Kinnaird said early in the
evening on Election Day.
Redistricting made a victory
slightly tougher for the fourth
term senator. Orange County
remained in her territory, but pre
dominately Democratic Chatham
County was replaced by Person
County, a fairly conservative area.
Yet Kinnaird ultimately held
onto her seat by more than 8,000
votes.
Whitfield said he didn’t have
any illusions of a big upset. “When
I entered the race I knew it was
going to be a long shot,” he said. “I
figured if I could turn out enough
conservative voters I would have
a chance.”
Kinnaird focused on trying to
thwart his plan by appealing to
more conservative constituents.
“I spent most of my time in
Person County,” she said. “I hope
to get to know the people there.”
Kinnaird visited all but one pre
cinct in the county and ran into her
opponent and his two brothers, also
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Incumbent N.C. Sen. Ellie Kinnaird celebrates her victory with some
supporters at Spice Street restaurant in University Mall on Tuesday.
tiate differences within your own
party, but when you have to add
the complexities of getting along
with the other party, too, it makes
it more difficult. It’s harder to
accomplish your legislative goals.”
Insko said she expects that any
Republican majority likely would be
too fractured to elect a Republican
speaker, meaning another power
sharing deal could be possible.
“The split in the North Carolina
Republicans mirrors, I think, the
split in the national party,” she said.
“It’s the conservative wing that
votes primarily on these values
based issues and the more moder
ate wing of the Republican Party
that is fiscally conservative but
more moderate on some of those
ideological things.”
With few results trickling in,
Rep. Verla
Insko ran
unopposed for
a fifth term
serving the
N.C. House's
56th District.
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“I hope that I ran a campaign
on the types of issues that will be
remembered more than the num
bers,” Franklin said.
“It’s been a good experience. I
have learned a lot, and people have
been very open and generous with
their advice and support.”
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named Whit, on a Tuesday visit, she
said during an impromptu inter
view with local radio station WCHL
1360 at Top of the Hill Restaurant
& Brewery on Tuesday.
Kinnaird claimed that
the brothers call themselves
Halfwhit, Nitwhit and Dimwhit.
“(My opponent and I) had an
interesting talk,” she said.
During their conversation,
Kinnaird complained to Whitfield
that he had misrepresented
her in fliers he distributed. She
told WCHL that her opponent
responded that he obtained the
information from newspapers or
hearsay. “You might think he’d
check to see,” she said.
Later that night she referred to
her opponent as “a character.”
With Democrats in south
ern Orange County eager to oust
President Bush, turnout in that
area would outweigh any losses she
might suffer in Person and northern
Orange counties, Kinnaird said.
“You might say I’m riding on
(Sen. John) Kerry’s coattails,” she
said.
Though Doug Biddy, Orange
County Republican Party chairman,
said Kinnaird represents a small
minority of the area’s population,
her campaign manager, Dan Harris,
said Kinnaird will be an effective
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Insko decided to make the rounds
at Spice Street restaurant at
University Mall, scene of Orange
County Democrats’ election-day
party.
Meandering through the crowds
of party officials and activists, she
stopped often to chat with friends
and discuss the latest election
returns.
It was going to be a long night
for those awaiting national results,
she said, but an early night for her.
The reason?
“I’m going to Raleigh in the
morning,” she said.
“We’ve got to start preparing for
the special session (of the General
Assembly).”
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