Tim D'Annunzio didn't wait long to target the latest Republican in the race for the 8th District congressional seat -- former WSOC TV sportscaster Harold Johnson.
"Voters in our district ... should be offended that a candidate who has never been a resident of this district is attempting to [...]
Political junkies are going to have a good time watching the political fight for the 8th District seat in Congress, currently held by Rep. Larry Kissell, the Democrat who beat Republican Robin Hayes, 55 to 44 percent in 2008.
[...]Cal Cunningham has reversed course from a month ago and has now decided that he is jumping into next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. Cunningham is a Democrat who will be vying for his party’s nomination to take on incumbent Republican Senator Richard Burr.
Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham, of Lexington, officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate this morning.
Cunningham faces two already-announced candidates for the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Republican. Both Secretary of State Elaine Marshall and Durham lawyer Kenneth Lewis have [...]
As Charlotte Mayor and 2008 Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory leaves office, he leaves little doubt of his views on other political players.
McCrory turns the mayor's gavel over to Democrat Anthony Foxx today and offered a few parting thoughts recently, the Charlotte Observer's Jim Morrill reports.
McCrory on:
Incoming [...]
Another Republican candidate has jumped into the race to secure the Republican nomination and rights to run against Congressman Larry Kissell of North Carolina’s Eighth District. Harold Johnson, a former sports anchor for WSOC Channel 9 in Charlotte for 26 years officially announced this past Friday that [...]
A Washington-based campaign finance group has named U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, an "insurance puppet" for the political contributions he has taken from insurance companies.
The Public Campaign Action Fund has an ad on the website fivethirtyeight.com depicting the North Carolina Republican on puppet [...]
Morgan Bruce Reeves, a former college football star and construction company CEO, is running for governor as an independent.
Reeves criticized both Republicans and Democrats for not finding common ground to solve the state’s urgent issues, and said one of his objectives would be to extend term limits to lawmakers.
“We need [...]
North Carolinians want the Republican federal prosecutor investigating Democrats Mike Easley and John Edwards to stay on the job, according to a new poll.
The survey by the Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank, found that 76 percent of those polled want George Holding, the U.S. [...]
While Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan says she is unsure whether she'll hold up the confirmation of a new U.S. attorney for North Carolina's eastern district, Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr has no plans to hold up the process.
DURHAM — Democratic Senate candidate Kenneth Lewis criticized Republican Sen. Richard Burr’s position on health care legislation Thursday, saying he was part of the Washington establishment that had blocked efforts to make health care more affordable.
I’m not trying to defend Burr because his performance in the [...]
PROSECUTOR TROUBLE: President Barack Obama announced his pick to replace U.S. Attorney George Holding, a Republican who is currently investigating two of the state's most prominent Democrats. The announcement puts Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, who has lobbied to let Holding finish his work, in the [...]
After nearly one year in office, President Obama has failed to implement policies that earn the confidence of the American people. From Rasmussen: (emphasis is mine)
Fifty-three percent (53%) of Democrats say the country is heading in the right direction, but only 12% of Republicans and 24% of voters not [...]
The U.S. Senate took another vote on health care today, again on an amendment.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, proposed an amendment that would require insurers to follow doctors recomendations on which women’s preventive health services to cover, Barb Barrett reports.
Republican U.S. Sen. Richard Burr voted [...]
The U.S. Senate took its first vote a few minutes ago on the massive health reform bill being considered now on the Senate floor.
The amendment — from U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland and Olympia Snowe, a Republican from Maine — would protect coverage of mammograms [...]
Rep. John Blust, a Greensboro Republican, is a new daddy.
Barbara Virginia Blust entered the world on Dec. 1. Blust reports that baby and mother, Maria, are doing fine.
When asked if being a new father would change how he legislates, Blust said, “Probably not.
He then joked, “I’m trying to teach her [...]
N.C. Republican Party chairman Tom Fetzer surprised some editors and reporters at The News & Observer recently when he said he had some positive feelings for the paper.
Executive Editor John Drescher noted on The Editors' Blog that Fetzer got his start in the Jesse Helms organization, which [...]
Cross Posted from The Jacksonian
North Carolina Senator Neal Hunt will have opposition in November. State employee Charles Malone has announced his intentions to challege the incumbent Republican Hunt in North Carolina's 15th Senate District.
Hunt, widely regarded as an ineffective legislator who is able to use his wealth to independently [...]
Did a new law cure the sick?
State Rep. Dale Folwell, a Winston-Salem Republican, sponsored the State Health Plan/Taxpayer Recovery Act, because a few members of the State Health Plan called for ambulances as many as 25 times in a year.
Before the law, [...]
Ex-Mayor Pat McCrory, the paradoxical darling of the free-market, anti-government crowd, must have felt something of a shiver yesterday when the EPA announced Charlotte's smart growth award.
"Of course I have mixed feelings," said hizzoner's ghost. "I'm a durn Republican. I hate government and I hate planning, especially transportation'" [...]
