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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(Posting on behalf of Herman Sperling. Apologies for delays in this posting.)<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The town hall with the last 3 of the 11 candidates was
hosted on September 5, 2023 with <span> </span>Khalilah Karim, Carl Rist, and Sherri Zann Rosenthal. 
I trust you will find their responses to the questions you asked me to present
insightful, and more importantly, helpful in making your voting choices.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A link to the recording of this session: <a href="https://youtu.be/5Db3oUg3vfY" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://youtu.be/5Db3oUg3vfY</span></a><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We will now move to the 8 candidates for Mayor.  The
first of 3 three town halls will be on September 11^th at 7 PM with council
members DeDreana Freeman and Leonardo Williams.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The link to attend this session will be: <a href="https://meet.goto.com/236441773" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://meet.goto.com/236441773</span></a> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">______________________________________________________________________<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please also find the links to the 4 town halls for Durham
City Council presented by The Leesville Road Coalition, The Inter-Neighborhood
Council of Durham, and the Carolina Arbors Politics and Culture Club.  We
were able to present 11 of the 12 candidates.  Only Waldo Fenner was
unable to fit us in his calendar.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Javiera
Caballero, Bonita Green, Shelia Ann Huggins<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/Qj06Mdf454E" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://youtu.be/Qj06Mdf454E</span></a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nate
Baker, Monique Hosley-Hyman, Shelia Ann Huggins<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/vHl7l_1eUmA" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://youtu.be/vHl7l_1eUmA</span></a><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Shanetta
Burris, JJ Campbell<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/PXtuRqVOW9U" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://youtu.be/PXtuRqVOW9U</span></a><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kalilah
Karim, Carl Rist, Sheri Zann Rosenthal<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/5Db3oUg3vfY" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://youtu.be/5Db3oUg3vfY</span></a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span><br></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> We will be hosting all 8 of the Mayoral candidates
next:<span></span></span></p>

<ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">DeDreana
     Freeman and Leonardo Williams on September 11^th<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">C.
     Burruss, Sylvester Williams and Mike Woodard on September 13^th<span></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jontae
     Dunston, Nick Petiford, Marshall Williams Jr. on September 20.<span></span></span></li></ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Early voting for the primaries will start at 8am on
September 21^st<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Absentee request deadline is on October 3^rd.<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Primary election day starts at 6:30 AM on October 10^th<span></span></span></p>

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<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>Mimi Kessler<br>919-599-2892<br></div></div></div></div></div></div>