Q-vote

Purpose
The purpose of InterstateQ.com’s Q-vote is to raise the public’s awareness of LGBT issues while also promoting and raising the awareness of LGBT inclusive, positive and supportive candidates and politicians running for offices in the 2008 Election season. Q-vote will accomplish this purpose and mission through online and community activism through the coordination of other “online activists” in and around North Carolina, contributing their time toward research, blogging, distribution of voting information, community & online outreach, networking and coalition building.

Q-vote 2008 Posts, News & Announcements on InterstateQ.com
You can view posts, news and other material for Q-vote 2008 on InterstateQ.com through the Q-vote 2008 category and the Q-vote 2008 category RSS feed.

2008 Focus
In 2008, InterstateQ.com’s Q-vote will focus on a number of local & state elections, including:

• North Carolina Governor
• North Carolina Lt. Governor
• Some State Cabinet posts (i.e. Education, State, Health, etc.)
• North Carolina Legislative Races, including those districts relevant to the Triad, Triangle, Wilmington area & Charlotte/Mecklenberg metropolitan area.

Q-vote “Endorsements”
Q-vote will “endorse” candidates for both the Primary and General elections. Research for both “endorsement” periods will be gathered throughout Fall 2007 and into Spring 2008. Research will be gathered through questionnaires and conversations with candidates and their staff.

How You Can Contribute
You can contribute to InterstateQ.com’s Q-vote project in various ways:

• Re-posting Q-vote news and “endorsements”
• Contacting the candidates you are interested in and forwarding to Q-vote the responses you receive (matt ‘at’ interstateq ‘dot’ com)

Candidates

GOVERNOR

Democrats
Richard H. Moore, State Treasurer (ENC endorsed)
Dennis Nielsen, Retired USAF Colonel
Beverly Perdue, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina

Republicans
Bill Graham, Salisbury attorney and head of conservative group
Robert F. Orr, former state Supreme Court Associate Justice
Elbie Powers, farmer, vice president of NC Pecan Growers Association
Fred Smith, NC state senator
Pat McCrory, Mayor of Charlotte (re-elected in 2007)

Libertarians
Michael Munger, Duke political science professor

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

Democrats
Dan Besse, Winston-Salem city councilman and environmental advocate
Walter H. Dalton, NC state senator
Hampton Dellinger, former deputy North Carolina attorney general and former legal counsel to Governor Mike Easley
Patrick Smathers, mayor of Canton, NC

Republicans
Greg Dority, security consultant
Robert Pittenger, NC state senator
Timothy Cook, Alternative Fuel Chemist, candidate in 2004 Lt. Governor Primary
Jim Snyder, 2004 nominee for Lt. Governor

The North Carolina Primary will be held on May 6, 2008. The voter registration deadline for the Primary was April 11, 2008.

Source: Wikipedia (note, Wikipedia is compiled by citizens and is subject to incorrect/incomplete information and should not be seen as an “academic” or “scholarly” source; this information provided only for informational/educational purposes).

More News and Information will be posted, coming soon.

Disclaimer
The InterstateQ.com project known as Q-vote is not officially affiliated with any particular campaign, candidate or politician, political action committee or candidate committee. Q-vote is a project started by one individual and is not affiliated with any offical PAC, advocacy, or lobbying group. The views, opinions and endorsements contained within and promoted by Q-vote and on InterstateQ.com by Matt Comer and other persons affiliated with Q-vote do not necessarily represent the official views, positions, stances or opinions of any group/organization with which Matt Comer or any Q-vote associated individual(s) are affiliated, involved and/or employed.

“Endorsements”: Q-vote “endorsements” are only the personal views and opinions of Matt Comer, indicating the particular candidate(s) he favors to win office in any given election. Endorsements do not carry any financial worth and no money or other material of any monetary worth is contributed to the campaigns of candidates endorsed in the InterstateQ.com Q-vote initiative. As a private citizen with the right to publish his opinions in any format available to the public, including through “blogging,” Matt Comer asserts his right to publicly endorse - or show his favor for - certain candidates over others.

Intellectual Property: As Owner & Editor of InterstateQ.com and its various subsidiaries, the project known as Q-vote is claimed as intellectual property of Matt Hill Comer. The names, images and logos identifying Q-vote, the owner or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of the owner or third parties. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use Q-vote content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may not adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any Q-vote content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. With the exception of attributed re-postings, any other use of Q-vote content requires the prior written permission of the owner. Re-postings of Q-vote content on other blogs is allowed only if the re-posted content is attributed back to Q-voteQ-vote content must include a URL link back to the original Q-vote content on this site. and Matt Hill Comer. Re-posted Please see the Creative Commons License below for more information on re-posting and using Q-vote content.

Last updated: August 23, 2007

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