July 18th, 2011
In the North Carolina town of Tar Heel, residents won’t have to worry about Big Government. It’s looking like No Government.
Nobody’s on the ballot for November elections, a county elections official told CNN Monday.
“The town had two weeks to file and no one stepped up to the plate,” said Cynthia Shaw, director of the Bladen County board of elections.
How did this happen?
“The deadline for anybody filing for Tar Heel was 12 noon on Friday,” she said, “and the board chose not to extend the filing period.”
Current Mayor Rick Martin is not running for re-election. “The mayor was in the process of moving out of the city, so he wasn’t going to file,” Shaw said.
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