Plain Talk Politics

Plain Talk Politics is a website compilation of current political news in NC and a weekly radio show. "Plain Talk about the people, the process and the facts" is voter education.
Jeanne Bonds created it in 2012. Bonds writes columns for several newspapers and appears on the popular NC Spin weekly public affairs TV program. and Time Warner Cable news program, N.C. Capital Tonight.
Plain Talk Politics previewed on television in February 2013 with guests Representatives Tim Moore and Kelly Alexander. And, it began as a radio show in May with television specials produced on occasion. The News and Observer noted its debut.
In December 2012, Bonds spoke to New York Times reporter Kim Severson about NC politics.
The Fayetteville Observer picked up a similar theme and Bonds' comments in an April 2013 story.
In July, Bonds wrote an opinion-editorial for the New York Times in their section called, "Room for the Debate.
The News and Observer took note of the op-ed in their feature, Under the Dome: "Jeanne Milliken Bonds is a public relations consultant, political analyst and host of Plain Talk Politics. She writes: Observers of the legislative process will not be shocked when the budget emerges with cuts to public education, along with new private school vouchers and the expansion of a separate system of charter schools. They will not be shocked by cuts to higher education. Earlier skirmishes focused on proposals to close some universities in the state system.
The Charlotte Observer also made note of Plain Talk Politics and its host "Jeanne Milliken Bonds, a public relations consultant and host of “Plain Talk Politics”: The N.C. budget is held hostage by a plethora of unrelated legislation. One recent distraction was an anti-Shariah law wrapped in abortion restrictions. Distractions came earlier in the session via tax cuts posing as tax reform, takeovers of large municipal assets, public school vouchers and limitations on access to voting."
In October, the Fayetteville Observer quoted Plain Talk Politics' Host again in a story about NC politics.
On Plain Talk Politics, Bonds has interviewed N.C. Members of Congress, Richard Hudson and David Price, N.C. Attorney General and presumed Gubernatorial Candidate for 2016 Roy Cooper, N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, former Congressman Bob Etheridge, former N.C. Attorney General and Secretary of State Rufus Edmisten. She has also interviewed N.C. Legislators: Tim Moore, Kelly Alexander, Jr., Rick Glazier, Floyd McKissick, Jr., David Lewis, Valerie Foushee, Graig Mayer, Susan Fisher, Garland Pierce, Charles Jeter, Malcolm Graham, Marcus Brandon, Alma Adams. Bonds also provides weekly commentary for WPTF radio in Raleigh, N.C.

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