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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