The politics of baby-making— men should sit down and shut up
Feb 25, 2012 No Comments ›› cecilby Cecil Bothwell I am the only candidate for congress in North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, in either party, who has taken strong positions in favor of women, women's rights and women's health. I entered the primary race in March of 2011, when the incumbent Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler voted to defund Planned Parenthood. Though I ...
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Immigration policy: North of the Border
Jan 23, 2012 No Comments ›› cecilThe following op-ed appeared in the Asheville Daily Planet this month. *** North of the Border by Cecil Bothwell In the late 1970s a friend of mine moved to Tucson, Arizona, where he took a job with a roofing contractor. Over the next ten years he became a hot-mop expert, endlessly repeating the process of installing layers of ...
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