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ELECTIONS
FROM PAGE 3
in first in the most recent election. He
did not raise any outside money and
loaned his campaign only SSOO.
In the past, candidates who
relied on their personal money to
fund their campaigns generally lost
the race, Kleinschmidt said.
That changed in 2007 with
newcomer Matt Czajkowski, who
spent more than $20,000 on his
campaign for Town Council. More
than $17,000 of that money came
from his pocket.
“Last election was the first time
anybody won where they gave them
selves a lot of money," kleinschmidt
said. The community is concerned
about the effect of expensive cam
paigns and how that might limit the
accessibility of the process.'
The VOE program aims to
address recent concerns that run
ning for local office could become
prohibitively expensive and that
elected officials could become more
responsive to the people financing
their campaign than the residents
they are supposed to represent.
Compliance with the program is
voluntary, and there are no spend
ing limits for those who don’t accept
public funds. But their participat
ing opponents are eligible for extra
funds if the nonpartiripants’ spend
ing exceeds the program's spending
thresholds.
“It creates an incentive for non
News
“Last election was
the first time
anybody zvon where
they gave themselves
a lot of money”
MARK KLEINSCHMIDT, TOWN COUNCIL
participating candidates to hold
down their spending and gives com
fort to participating candidates to
go into the program," Strom said.
With the rescue money, the gap
could be closed, or at least lessened,
making the nonparticipant s extra
spending less effective. Strom said.
North Carolina has already imple
mented public financing for some
judicial elections and for selected
Council of State offices. Chapel Hill
received permission to experiment
with its own program in July.
The 2009 and 2011 elections
will serve as trial runs of the VOE
program on which the N.C. General
Assembly will base its final approv -
al in 2011.
“We don’t want to become like
some communities where you don't
have a chance at winning a council
seat without spending a fortune,"
Kleinschmidt said.
“What a person in Chapel Hill
wants is to stop it before it starts."
Contact the City Editor
at citydeskfaunc.edu.
SUITS
FROM PAGE 3
lection of more than 100 suits to
anyone. Wright’s grandchildren,
who now arc in their 40s and 50s,
inherited his possessions.
“They couldn’t fit into his suits,
so they got the ties, hats and shoes
they wanted," Dickerson said.
The tone at the suit sale was rel
atively somber, as if this were the
final goodbye to the small-town
fashion icon.
Caitlin Dareff, who purchased
an orange suit Saturday, said she
wanted to have a memory of the
stylish man she came to idolize
growing up in Chapel Hill.
“1 always really admired him,
smiling and tipping his hat." she
said. “You really feel that his fash
ion was fabulous*
Dareff was so inspired by-
Wright’s style and persona that
she WTote a poem about him for a
school project.
“He knew fashion." Dickerson said.
"I'd be dressed to go somewhere, and
he'd say, Tm going to get you black
pumps and a black purse to go with
COURTESY OF BRAD REAGAN
Brad Reagan’s “Octopus" is made
of metal, expanding foam, sculpy,
wood knobs, wire, googly eyes,
acrylic, shellac, foam and celluday.
ACKLAND
FROM PAGE 3
Just steps from Forer’s photog
raphy are Brad Reagan’s flower
sculptures, Natalia Vega-Forero's
and Ellie Pierson’s installation
pieces and Lori Esposito’s paint
ings. The collection is truly an
eclectic mix.
Brown said the exhibition is
viewed as one of the last steps in
the students' university education,
as it is the first museum showing
for many of the MFA candidates.
“It's cool for us to give these art
ists a chance to have, in some cases,
their first exhibition in a real muse
um," Brown said. “It's also another
learning opportunity, as they now
get to see how an installation hap
pens and how to work with the
museum staff."
“But most importantly these
exhibitions are always good."
Contact the Arts Editor
at artsdesk(a unc.edu.
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CAITLIN DAREFF, purchased a suit
that.' He'd hand me SIOO and say,
‘Get you an outfit with this."
The size 38 and 40 suits each
with a shirt and pocket handkerchief
run for SIOO. A matching hat and
shoes, sizes 8 to 10, cost $25 more.
“His way of thinking was that
wherever you go, be dressed up,"
Dickerson said. ‘His sense of pur
pose was very admirable."
Contact the Features Editor
at features@unc.edu.
DOT
FROM PAGE 3
David Mills, executive director
of the Common Sense Foundation,
a progressive N.C. think tank, is
among those who say that has mired
the selection process in politics.
“Too many of the appointments
are made with politics in mind,
rather than transportation exper
tise,” he said.
Mills added that the problem isn’t
new-.
“I think every governor has been
guilty, to a greater or lesser extent,
of appointing friends to various
boards," he said. “That system of
spoils is bad for the state."
Contact the State E? National
Editor at stntdesk@unc.edu.
N.C. gubernatorial
candidates comment
on transportation
■ 1 Moon “first of all,
we want to make the DOT less
political, and they have their
own consultant report that said
the place needed to be more
transparent.’
www.richardmoore.org/issues/
issueArtides/financiaLmanage
ment.html#transportation
“Decentralize it make it highly
accountable but then turn peo
ple loose to have some kind of
flexibility."
bevperdue.com/release_
details.asp?id=loo7
Bob Orr “The first thing I
would do is a complete restruc
turing, reorganization of the
management principles.'
www.orr2ooß.com/lssues/
Transportation/transportation.
html
i McCh- 'You need to
plan for the next 50 years, not
for the next election.’
www.patmccrory.com/trans
port.htm
Fred Smiti 'We need to take
our formula, which we now have
for distributing transportation
funds, we need to revisit that'
► 2008.joinfred.com/web/con
tent/issues/roads-and-the-envi-
ronment/
Bill Graham: 'You've got to
build the roads where the cars
are.'
No online transportation
platform
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