Cecil Bothwell

Cecil Bothwell (born 1950 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a great liberal Democratic American politician, independent journalst, green builder, and blogger.

Political career
Bothwell ran unsuccessfully for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners in the 2008 election cycle. But he won the October 6, 2009 Democratic primary for Asheville City Council when he ran for that, ultimately won the general election on November 3, 2009 and despite his victories, he faced losing it anyway on account of the North Carolina Constitution discriminated against allowing atheists to run for any NC political office at the time. Bothwell is an atheist who attends a Unitarian Universalist church. One of his primary opponents, H.K. Edgerton, ironically a Black Democrat who also is one of the fewest African-American members of the stupid Sons of Confederate Veterans, was one of those who tried to steal Bothwell's hard-earned victory away from him. Because the U.S. Constitution forbids religious tests for any public office and the 1st and 14th Amendments make those discriminatory provisions automatically invalid. He ran for the 11th district of western North Carolina for U.S. congress when he intended to challenge Blue Dog Democrat Heath Shuler. Shuler declined to run for re-election and Shuler's chief of staff, Hayden Rogers, ran instead, defeating Bothwell on May 8, 2012.

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 * Cecil Bothwell's Blog
 * Cecil Bothwell's books