Over the past week, leaders and candidates affiliated with the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) have started telling people across Chapel Hill and Carrboro not to trust: – local media – The Daily Tar Heel – endorsements – Triangle Blog Blog – candidate forums (the only place where we get to see […]
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Emails reveal how CHALT works closely with candidates
A month ago, we broke the news about a PAC planning to inject $120,000 into the election cycle. We then continued to follow the story as members of the planned PAC decided to, instead, give their donations to the CHALT PAC. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” […]
Scoop: The $120,000 PAC is back. And they’re giving their money to CHALT.
On September 12, the Daily Tar Heel reported that the $120,000 PAC led by Julia Grumbles would not be forming. In an email sent by Grumbles to neighbors on September 18th, the reason becomes clear: instead of forming a new PAC, they plan to donate tens of thousands of dollars to the existing CHALT PAC, […]
Factcheck: A new CHALT blog post is chock-full of factual errors
Labor Day marks the traditional beginning of the municipal election campaign season—one of our favorite times of the year. And earlier this week the Chapel Hill Alliance for a Livable Town (CHALT) launched a new website. CHALT is an “anti-development community group” that has “opposed nearly every major development proposal” in Chapel Hill since its […]
A response to a CHALT coordinator posting our addresses on NextDoor
Earlier today, Linda Brown, one of CHALT’s coordinators, doxxed us in the semi-private NextDoor group she runs. Our addresses were posted, along with our names. We can’t respond in Linda’s group. That’s because she has blocked us all from participating in the group. We are appreciative of the many people who reached out to us […]
The ongoing hypocrisy of CHALT
We were perusing the public Chapel Hill Town Council email inbox – some of us like to live dangerously – when we came across two strange little emails. The first, sent in May 2022, was from one of CHALT’s current leaders. A paragraph: I have several ideas for legal/policy changes the Council could make, that […]