From Staff Reports

Asheville City Council voted 4-2 on Sept. 8 to appoint attorney S. Antanette Mosley as its newest member.

The Asheville Citizen Times noted in a story appearing afterward that Mosley’s appointment makes history because it is the first time Asheville will have three black council members. (The other two are Keith Young and Sheneika Smith.) 

Council had two African-American members in both 1989 and 2019. Blacks comprise 12 percent of the city’s population.

The ACT also noted that Mosley, as an attorney, “won a case for the Martin Luther King Jr. estate against a major television network in a federal appeals court and was recommended by a member of Congress.”

She will be occupying the seat — vacant since Aug. 8 — formerly filled by Vijay Kapoor, who resigned in August. The city said more than 30 people applied for the position.

From Staff Reports

HENDERSONVILLE — Donald Trump Jr. addressed a capacy crowd of several hundred enthusiastic supporters at an outside rally — slamming what he called the hypocritcal, virtue-signaling, Marxist-leaning Democrats and biased news media — in a high-energy speech at his Make America Great Again event Sept. 10 at Point Lookout Vineyards.

Atop a mountain, the event’s setting featured panoramic views of surrounding peaks, the vineyards and farmland.

“Liberal privelege” was a theme for which Trump Jr. repeatedly offered examples in his Point Lookout Vineyards’ address, along with the need for supporters to mobilize and work hard to re-elect not only his father as president, but Republican candidates up and down the ballot.

He referred repeatedly to his new book, “Liberal Privelege: Joe Biden and the Democrats’ Defense of the Indefensible,” in which he writes: “Few American families have accomplished so little and benefited so much as the Bidens. Through corruption, grift, and sheer greed — Joe Biden, Hunter, and the rest of the clan have exemplified liberal privilege.”