...it is highly likely that the biggest loser yesterday DownEast was Thom Tillis and his ambitions to be U. S. Senator. He stirred up a massive amount of passion with redistricting, ferry tolls and meddling in local primaries. Whether he can redeem himself among the GOP base will likely depend on how he operates going forward and particularly going into November. If he and his staff continue to blunder as they have over the last year it is possible that the GOP may lose its majority in the House. That's how upset many grassroots Republicans and unaffiliated voters are.
Meanwhile, the Ultimate Tea Partier John Tedesco, the under-educated and over-caffeinated former member of the Wake County School Board, won the second Republican primary yesterday to run against State Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson. Apparently, Mr. Tedesco's forestalled plans to dismantle Raleigh's school system only fueled his ambition to dismantle the entire State of North Carolina's school system. Meanwhile, Mr. Tedesco's Center for Education Reform appears to be mainly a website meant to support Mr. Tedesco.
The Tea Party did less well in other second primary races. For example, Richard Hudson won against dentist Scott Keadle in the 8th Congressional District. Hudson will now face incumbent Dem Larry Kissell. Keadle was extravagantly backed by the Club for Growth, which reportedly poured over $700,000 into his campaign. Keadle now has the distinction (call it the "Vernon Robinson Halo") of being a three-time Congressional loser, in three different Congressional districts.
Retiring Congresswoman Sue Myrick's baby boy Dan Forrest won against Tony Gurley for the Republican Lt. Gov. nomination. Gurley will presumably go back to being a Wake County commissioner.
Voters in NC had better wake up and know that they should go to the polls in November and vote as if their life depends upon it, because it does.
ReplyDeleteThe Tea partiers with Pope and the Koch brother's Americans for Prosperity have a bottomless pocketbook and have proved that they run dirty campaigns full of lies and innuendo.
In one and a half years, the Republicans in Raleigh have set the state back in so many ways, principally selling our state to the highest corporate bidders in education, the environment, health and infrastructure.
Sadly, the general public doesn't know the damage done, yet...
Yes, they know of the progress that has been made.
ReplyDeleteKicking multiple thousands of four-year-olds out of preschool is progress? Increasing class sizes in K-12 is progress? Denying North Carolinians the opportunity to receive loan money for Community College is progress? Denying science and sea-level rise is progress? Not funding the drug courts, planned parenthood--where women receive healthcare and the teaching fellows program where North Carolina students learn to be good teachers is progress?
ReplyDeletePolluting the air and water is progress?
And on and on...
Like you democrats don't run dirty campaigns. Give me a break!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat Anon 11.02 said (not Anon 1.06). GOPers are all about tough Voter ID laws, what about Commenter ID? Anonymous Comment fraud is rampant on this website...ha.
ReplyDeleteIf everyone is required to post through a facebook account where your identity is registered, you might have a point. brotherdoc is no less anonymous than Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteSo far as I know there's only one brotherdoc who posts here, and I am proud to be he. With the Anons you can't tell one from another, which is the point of my comment. As the GOPers know, it's all about turnout this fall which is why they are doing their dam*dest to suppress voting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe there is one brotherdoc. Maybe there are more. In either case you are anonymous.
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