Chubby Checker coming to Wilmington for Common Cause
The legendary pop singer Chubby Checker is best-known for his 1959 smash “The Twist,” which helped popularize the dance of the same name. So it feels somehow appropriate that when Checker plays the Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach on Jan. 31, it will be to benefit a group fighting gerrymandering, the practice of “twisting” voting districts into extreme shapes in order to benefit the party in power.
NC lawmakers ordered to pay $100,000 after gerrymandering court loss
The state of North Carolina must pay over $102,000 to the winning side in a recent legislative redistricting case and the outside expert who helped analyze redrawn district lines, state judges have ruled.
TWISTING CHANGE: Chubby Checker joins other stars for a fundraiser against gerrymandering
Chubby Checker—yes the Chubby Checker of “The Twist” fame—is coming to perform at Blockade Runner in Wrightsville Beach. It’s a fundraiser for Common Cause North Carolina’s campaign to end gerrymandering.
N.C. Congressional and legislative maps are set for 2020 elections
“Redistricting really is still going to be a flawed process until we can take the mapmaking out of the hands of lawmakers,” said Bob Phillips of Common Cause NC.
Bob Phillips, Tar Heel of the Year finalist, is a voice for open elections and reform
For Phillips’ work in bringing about that change, as well as spending the past two decades pushing for government reforms even as both political parties have pushed back, Phillips was a finalist for The News & Observer’s 2019 Tar Heel of the Year.
