Republican Congressional Candidate Forum Live at 4pm

**update** Here is the full video of the forum. I've broken it into two parts. There is a short video slideshow at the end of the second part.


Part One



Part Two



Live Video streaming by Bobby Coggins
The Macon County Republican Party will be hosting a forum for the Republican candidates for Congress today at 4:30pm. The event begins at 4:00pm with a meet and greet opportunity for voters to meet the candidates for Congress.

The event will be streamed live starting at 4:00pm.

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Meadows Wins Straw Poll in Transylvania County

On February 11, 2012, the Transylvania County Republican party hosted a candidate forum in the 11th Congressional District Republican Primary and held a straw poll.

I've been waiting to post this information until I had an actual vote tally to report.This morning I received a tally in a personal communication with a member of the Transylvania County GOP.

Here it is:


25 Mark Meadows
15 Jeff Hunt
7 Kenny West
4 Vance Patterson
3 Dr. Dan Eichenbaum
1 Spence Campbell
1 Ethan Wingfield
0 Susan Harris
0 Chris Petrella

If anyone took video of the forum, they have yet to post it online. If they do, I'll embed it here.

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Macon GOP Fundraiser: PIZZA, PICKIN’ & POLITIKIN’

The Macon County Republican Party and the Gem Country Republican Women's Club held a fundraiser this past Saturday, November 19th at the Trimont Christian Academy. Funds are to go toward the opening of a party headquarters during the 2012 elections. If you missed the fundraiser, it is not too late to donate [click here].


The guest speaker was Phil drake of Drake Enterprises. He spoke about the upcoming elections and the video of that is below:





Six of the nine candidates running in the 11th Congressional District Republican Primary attended the fundraiser and campaigned before and after the event. They all consented to making their case on video.


Here are those videos in the order in which I recorded them:

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