There will be ... talk of constitutional principals and their applications to modern governance
Where as Republican candidate Fred Smith brings 'cue and slaw on the campaign stump, former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr brings is due to bring his own brand of cerebral campaigning to bear locally this week:
Retired North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, a 2008 Republican gubernatorial candidate, will visit with students, faculty and staff at Elon University School of Law from 5:30-7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31. The event will take place in room 207 of the law school, located at 201 North Greene Street in downtown Greensboro. Orr¹s visit is sponsored by Elon Law Republicans.Orr was appointed to the N.C. Court of Appeals in 1986 and served until his election to the N.C. Supreme Court in 1994. He was reelected in 2002 and retired in 2004 to lead the newly formed N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law.
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Mark, is this open to the public?
Posted on January 30, 2008 5:41 PM
As many news releases as they sent the paper about it, I would think so. Also, I have a hard time seeing a candidate for governor turn away a potential voter. But I've asked for clarification from the folks at Elon. (What are they going to do, run you off the campus for wanting to attend a candidate meet?)
Posted on January 30, 2008 5:45 PM
From David Hibbard, at the college:
"Sorry I didn't get back to you until now...don't know if you can post on
your blog or respond individually to your reader, but this event is NOT open
to the general public. We aren't set up to accommodate extra folks because
of space. However, it is open to the media, so if you or someone from the
paper would like to come, feel free to. (I realize it's a long trip from
Raleigh, but perhaps someone else would want to cover it.)"
However, if you really want to go, I'd send David and e-mail (dhibbard@elon.edu) and ask. As popular as Bob Orr is with the hip youngsters on campus, I got to think there's going to be an extra chair or two.
Posted on January 31, 2008 10:02 AM
Did you go, Mark. How was the attendance?
I couldn't have gone anyway as it turns out, so I won't hold it against the Law School or Orr, who I regard at this early stage as the most intriguing R candidate. Hopefully Orr will not have to swing too far to the right to win the nomination because some of his current positions seem quite appealing to this independent. Hopefully his campaign is aware of that and intends to play that as one of his strengths.
Posted on February 1, 2008 7:52 AM