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Please notice the city change.

A health care town hall meeting will take place from 6:30-8 PM in Greensboro, NC on August 19, 2009 at the Teamster's Union Hall on Sandy Ridge Road.

This meeting is to make your voice heard now that health care reform is closer than it has ever been, as proclaimed on the flier. I do hope this is for us to make our voices heard and not to have a screaming match as has been the norm at most town hall meetings lately.

I want to know what is being done in Washington and Raleigh to make my health care more affordable and to report on what was asked and said at this meeting so I will be attending.

If you are interested in attending, the flier invites everyone to bring a friend and to please RSVP to Heather Welborn - Call: 704 609-5906 or email her at hwelborn@seanc.org.

Look for my follow up post on Friday the 21st.

October 29, 2008 Truthful Politics journalist Cathy von Hassel-Davies went to Raleigh, North Carolina, where she met with fellow blogger Ilina from Dirt and Noise. They headed to a private house located in Raleigh's historical Five Oaks disrict for a meet and greet with Edie Falco, Carmella from The Sopranos. Cathy discovered she had a unique bond with Edie Falco, they both lived in the same small town in upstate NY. Edie Falco was in NC stumping for Obama and making sure that everyone would go out and vote preferably early.

You can click on photo to enlarge.

Afterwards Ilina and Cathy headed downtown for the Obama Rally. We are still gathering, viewing and editing all the videos and pictures, but unfortunately Cathy is an extremely active volunteer with one of the presidential campaigns and these next four days are crazy busy for her.

Cathy overcame her fear of heights and went up on a scissor lift with the lift operator and two other journalists so she can get this amazing picture of the gathering crowd with downtown Raleigh in the background.

As reported by major news stations. An assassination plot by skinheads has been thwarted by ATF. Here are some links.

Breaking News

MSNBC

More information to come later when details are finalized.

Senator Obama speaks about current economy conditions from Asheville NC.

He says, what we did last week is not the end but just the beginning. He asked for swift action by Paulson to do the things that Congress had authorized him to do, to help our economy and restore confidence in our economy. Very important for us to move forward on an economic stimulus package to provide people with relief from high food prices and gas prices and help state and local governments to maintain payrolls. We have to extend unemployment insurance after statistics showed that we have lost 159,000 additional jobs last month. Move on an aggressive plan to deal with some of the underlying structural problems in our economy including the continuing decline in the housing market.

Obama mentioned that he was surprised to hear Senator McCain's campaign say that we want to turn the page on discussions on the economy, and if we keep talking about the economy we lose. Senator Obama said he has news for the McCain campaign, the American people are losing right now; they are losing their jobs, they are losing their healthcare, they are losing their homes and their savings. Barack Obama exclaimed, that he cannot believe that they want to brush that aside and engage in the usual political shenanigans and scare tactics that has come to charactierize too may political campaigns. He thinks that is not what the American people are looking for. He said he will keep talking about the economy and keep on talking about what we need to do to strengthen the middle class and get our credit markets settled down. He has confidence we can solve this problem, but not with business as usual, we need (news reporter spoke over him) change.

As a side it would have been nice if MSNB spelled Ashville (sic) correctly in their caption.

Cathy von Hassel-Davies