Charlotte Observer endorses Erskin Bowles & Kerry

[surfermaw]

Posted on Sun, Oct. 24, 2004





Bowles for Senate

Charlotte's Erskine Bowles offers experience, detailed plans


Effective leadership in the U.S. Senate requires an ability to forge alliances and -- especially in these acutely polarized times -- a willingness to honor the common good over party ideology. Those are among the qualities N.C. voters should seek as they replace U.S. Sen. John Edwards.Voters face a choice between two experienced, high-profile candidates: Republican Richard Burr, 48, of Winston-Salem and Democrat Erskine Bowles, 59, of Charlotte. Libertarian Tom Bailey, 54, a roofer from Greensboro, is also running.

Rep. Burr, a former national sales manager for a distributing company, has represented the 5th Congressional District in northwestern North Carolina for a decade. Mr. Bowles is a Charlotte investment banker who built two successful financial services companies, headed the Small Business Administration 1993-94 and was White House chief of staff for President Clinton.

Both men are well-spoken, dedicated to public service and informed

about significant issues. Yet there are clear-cut differences.



http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/opinion/10001484/10001484.htm

[barb162]

1. I am pretty impressed the paper endorsed the Democrats

as I know there are a lot of conservatives in NC. My local paper Chicago Tribune, endorsed shrub even tho Chicago is highly democrat. They endorsed shrub because, get this, he is "resolute" on the war on terror.

[Eloriel]

2. So is this a typically conservative paper, or liberal? n/t

[surfermaw]

3. I think it leans more republican

If the Charlotte observer prints something for the democrats, the next day the republicans are crying like babies, I think Charlotte has lots of republicans, and the state went for Bush in the last election, eventhough Gore attended a seminary for a year. Yes I would say the Charlotte Paper is a republican paper.