INSIDE POLITICS: Boosted Fayetteville filing fees designed to curtail candidates
When the filing period for the city and town elections started last month, Fayetteville resident Ronald Adams saw something that disturbed him: It costs far more for someone to file to run for the Fayetteville City Council than it does to run for office in the other eight cities and towns in Cumberland County.Fayetteville charged City Council candidates $170.88 to run for council seats this year and $312.55 to run for mayor. It’s just $5 to run for office in Linden, Godwin, […]
