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Candidate ME Bonus - What Happened (Charlotte Edition)

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Yes, Candidate ME was scheduled to be on a break. But then Tuesday, September 12 rolled around, the mayor was voted out, other incumbents were defeated and the Charlotte City Council changed in significant ways.

And no one saw it coming.

So host Tom Bullock digs into just why Jennifer Roberts lost, gets a preview of the general election campaigns likely to be run by Democrat Vi Lyles and Republican Kenny Smith and takes a look at the what the changes on the council really mean for the city.

Oh, and he gets to chastise our political consultants for being so very wrong in their predictions.

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Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.