Lineberry Alliance Blogs

This is an opinion piece about the recent city council race and does not necessarily reflect the views of all the members of the Lineberry Alliance. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.

It’s one week past the local Raleigh City Council elections in Wake County and the race in District D was hotly contested. Thomas Crowder, incumbent, and challenger Ted Van Dyk put their names in the ring for two years of public service on city council. I was happy with the way things were going in the race until I got a flyer in the mail that called out the District D Neighborhood Alliance (DDNA) and pretty much discounted months of volunteer work that I, and many others, personally committed. This is where Van Dyk made his mistake in the race (besides entering) and undermined District D neighborhoods. I quickly made a parody of the flyer and posted it to Facebook.

Ted Van Dyk campaign flyer

I was pretty upset about the obvious fabrications and the negative tone from the “positive voice” promised in the mailing. I wasn’t the only one who thought about mocking the flyer as you’ll see in the post-election poke: (more…)