Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD; photo, left), who chairs the rightwing House Freedom Caucus, suggested 12 days before the election “that legislators in the battleground state of North Carolina could allocate their state’s electoral votes to Trump before votes are counted” (read story here). The b[...]
Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’
October 25th, 2024 - 8:14 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOP rep wants North Carolina’s legislature to commandeer electoral votes
Trump rally crowd boos soldier over base name
Disrespecting our military personnel and veterans has been a Trump hallmark. That hasn’t changed and isn’t going to. At a townhall-style campaign event in North Carolina on Friday, October 4, 2024, Trump “chuckled” as his crowd booed an active-duty soldier. The soldier’[...]
September 19th, 2024 - 1:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
2024’s worst GOP candidate just got even worse
Mark Robinson (photo, left) wasn’t going to win the 2024 election for North Carolina governor anyway. He was under 40% in many recent polls. Now, his fellow Republicans are calling on him to drop out, and the Trump campaign has told him he’s not welcome at their rallies. This comes on th[...]
2024’s worst candidate
This isn’t an easy call to make, because there’s so many to choose from, but I’m going with Michele Morrow (photo, left; profile here), who won an upset primary victory in North Carolina’s Superintendent of Public Instruction race. That state’s GOP candidate for governo[...]
June 4th, 2024 - 7:13 pm § in Politics, Republicans
This isn’t your grandmother’s Republican Party
Political parties change over time. For example, in the 1950s, southern segregationists were Democrats and people associated the word “Republican” with small businessmen, Chambers of Commerce, and respectability. Today, the Republican Party nominates candidates like Michele Morrow, who&#[...]
Not racist, just mentally lazy?
His Wikipedia biography, at the moment, says: “Jeffrey C. McNeely is a racist Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who has represented the 84th district (including parts of Iredell County) since 2019.” It appears to have been modified by a member of th[...]
GOP candidate: Civil rights gains “took away freedom”
“North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the ‘so-called’ 1960s Civil Rights Movement, lamenting that ‘so many freedoms were lost during the civil rights[...]
May 13th, 2022 - 6:53 pm § in Politics
Is there hope for GOP voters?
There’s not a lot of reason to believe there is. After all, they still support Trump despite his immorality, dishonesty, and total lack of character. Their own behavior leaves a lot to be desired (see, e.g., threats against election workers). And, in North Carolina, they elected Madison Cawtho[...]
Sorry you moved to a red state?
These people are. Shifting political sands are “jarring” liberal-minded young people and professionals who moved to blue enclaves in red states during the pandemic, either for a change of scenery or in pursuit of work opportunities, and now some are having second thoughts, NBC News says [...]
April 5th, 2022 - 12:43 am § in Law and Courts, Politics
Get Madison Cawthorn out of Congress — and off the road, too
Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) has a thing about rules: He disrespects them. Not formal House rules. Nor the Republican caucus’s unspoken rule to not publicly accuse its members of engaging in drug-fueled orgies behind closed doors. Or his home state’s traffic laws. He racked up 3 violatio[...]