WataugaWatch: The Line To Run Against McCrory Starts Here

Thursday, September 05, 2013

The Line To Run Against McCrory Starts Here

May get crowded well before 2016 ... the congregation of prominent Democrats looking at Pat McCrory, assessing his plenitude of weaknesses, and calculating the odds of making him a one-term Guv.

Former Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker was the first really prominent politician to say he's looking at the race.

Hard on his heels today ... Attorney General Roy Cooper, who is by far the biggest dog so far to sniff at that bowl.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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