One of the things that you can count on with CHALT is its predictability. (CHALT, aka Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town.” is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its inception in 2014/2015. They formed a PAC in 2017, recruit and endorse local candidates […]
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The last word word on CHALT’s campaign finances (we hope)
What are you doing this weekend, blogbloggers? Oh, just factchecking a CHALT factcheck of our factcheck. :backs-away-slowly: If you’re just joining us, it’s time for our third (and hopefully final!) installment of fact-checking CHALT’s campaign finance documents. We did a deep dive into their first year-end semi-annual report, and then—after they amended it—we reported that […]
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Update: The CHALT-PAC amended their campaign finance form – here’s what we noticed.
On the morning of February 11th, we reached out to Tom Henkel, CHALT’s treasurer, with an email containing a series of errors that appeared in the CHALT-PAC’s year-end report. (You can see the email here.) Henkel must have had a very busy day, because he went to work amending the report, which he submitted in […]
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CHALT’s campaign finance report is missing $3,840 – and that’s not the only problem.
An update to this piece appears here. We have spent the past week or so reviewing the final campaign finance documents submitted by each campaign, PAC, and independent expenditure in the 2023 Chapel Hill municipal election cycle. Campaign finance law is tricky and arcane, so much so that North Carolina requires campaign treasurers to complete mandatory […]
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The Local Reporter and CHALT’s unusual election recaps
After the 2018 election cycle ended with a solid defeat for CHALT’s clerk of court candidate, CHALT’s post-election newsletter recap noted that they were interested in launching a local newspaper. Several months later, the non-profit newspaper The Local Reporter launched with a board entirely made up of CHALT leaders. Over the years, we have covered […]
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CHALT is not interested in collaborative, coalition-building local governance
This is a pivotal election for Chapel Hill. Beyond the clear policy differences there is a significant experience gap between the candidates. The slate of candidates strongly supported by CHALT (Adam Searing for mayor; Breckany Eckhardt, Elizabeth Sharp, Renuka Soll and David Adams for council) have a paucity of experience with town governance. This is […]