The Charlotte host committee of the DNC has revealed it came up $12.5 million short of its fundraising goal for the convention and was forced to tap a line of credit guaranteed by Duke Energy.
WFAE's Julie Rose has been pouring through documents filed with the Federal Election Commission late last night and joins All Things Considered Host Mark Rumsey to share some analysis.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan was in Charlotte on Sunday to help commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Million Man March. He was scheduled to address poverty. He ended up delivering a speech filled with race-based rhetoric.
Louis Farrakhan let people know up front he was going to veer off topic. He had other things to say because of the election and the recent Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
For example, here’s his theory on why the Republican Party opposes President Obama:
U.S. Airways employees compete in the seventh annual Jet Pull event. The Dual Lane Demons finished with a time of 7.410.
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The 26 teams pulled this 50-ton Carolina Panthers-themed Airbus A319.
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Freight Flyers won the competition for the second year in a row with a winning time of 5.138 seconds.
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Michael Nagy, with US Airways airport customer service, dressed up as a sumo wrestler for the event.
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Captain Ed Bular leads his team at the event (and in real life). He is US Airways' senior vice president. Cary Braden, a US Airways corporate trainer, yells at the team to pull.
Fifteen feet doesn’t sound like a lot, unless you’re pulling a 50-ton airplane. And that’s exactly what teams lined up to do at the U.S. airways hangar in Charlotte this morning. They weren’t there just to show off which team had the largest biceps. The goal was to raise money for United Way of Central Carolinas.
There were 26 teams of 20 employees, but Freight Flyers was the most anticipated team. After all, they’re the defending champs.
