I would say that Burr has absolutely no chance of winning. The Senate Race will be at the Top of the Ticket and for Burr that will be something new. He got elected in a Very Strong year for Republicans in which we still had 911 fresh [...]
I would say that Burr has absolutely no chance of winning. The Senate Race will be at the Top of the Ticket and for Burr that will be something new. He got elected in a Very Strong year for Republicans in which we still had 911 fresh [...]
The history of health reform attempts in the US doesn’t bode well for health advocates if we fail to pass the Senate bill.
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[...] Recently NC NAACP President Rev. William Barber urged the Senate to act to relieve the suffering of those who can’t get the health care they need:
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Share and Enjoy: [...]No matter what you think of the obstructionist self-interest of Bob Greczyn and the leadership at Blue Cross Blue Shield, those guys aren't stupid.
A significant flaw in the proposed Senate bill, Greczyn said, is that the penalties for those who choose not to buy insurance - $95 the' [...]
Democratic Senate candidate Ken Lewis today called on primary opponent Cal Cunningham to resign his post on the State Banking Commission, criticizing him for not opposing a proposal to award commission staff members $200,000 in bonuses.
But Cunningham never supported such bonuses, according to his campaign. The [...]
AARP of North Carolina issued a press release rapping the Senate for voting against allowing the importation of prescription drugs from abroad. Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan both voted against allowing drug reimportation.
Rising prescription drug prices are a major problem for people of all ages, [...]
The start of the candidate filing season for 2010 is still more than a month away, but local aspirants are already signaling their intentions. We’ve already noted some the announcements here already. Bettie Fennell will run again as a Republican in the 8th Senate District, possibly against former state Rep. [...]
Democratic Senate candidate Elaine Marshall attended a White House Christmas Party Tuesday night.
Marshall, who is secretary of state, was one hundreds of state officials from across the country invited, Rob Christensen reports. Other Democratic North Carolinians attending included state Rep. Verla Insko of Chapel [...]
Today in a CSPAN interview, NC Senator Kay Hagan gave her views on the Senate health bill now being debated, including her thoughts on the lack of a public health care plan option and Medicare buy-in:
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Larry Kissell, the first-term Democrat representing the NC-8, voted against the health insurance bill which the U.S. House passed and which is several light years better than the hardened turd favored by Joe Lieberman and Barack Obama in the Senate.
Trying to find some relief from marinating our noggins in the corporatocracy of Washington, D.C., and the craven Democratic Senate, and trying to avoid the growing thought that Democrats are no more capable of reform than the goddamned party of Virginia Foxx, I turn for relief [...] FamiliesUSA issued a new report today detailing the effect of the Senate health bill on increasing coverage in North Carolina. Nearly one million North Carolinians would gain coverage under the bill. If we don’t do anything? 254,000 of us lose coverage by 2019.
Share and Enjoy:[...] In the wake of recent revelations, the Wilmington daily has called for R.C. Soles not just to to bow out of the 2010 race for his Pender-Columbus-Brunswick senate seat, but to resign from it:
Soles’ reputation – always a little suspect since his first indictment in the Colcor investigation of [...]
Despite its serious flaws, exorbitant costs, and rising unpopularity, the Senate’s health care legislation may still move forward. Democrats apparently believe that delivering to their left-wing base must be their highest priority, whatever the cost.
The Jacksonville Daily News recommends a different course of action:
Liberals argue that President Obama ran [...]
Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has picked up the endorsement of two national women’s organization’s in her bid to win the May Democratic Senate primary.
She has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women and the Women’s Campaign Forum, Rob Christensen reports.
The group’s national affiliate, the National Women’s Political Caucus, [...]
At a recent press conference calling for action from the Senate on health reform, Triangle small business owner Ashley Ascott spoke briefly about her business and the need for health reform:
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Secretary of State Elaine Marshall has picked up the endorsement of two national women's organization's in her bid to win the May Democratic Senate primary.
She has been endorsed by the National Organization for Women and the Women's Campaign Forum, Rob Christensen reports.
During her Senate campaign part of Hagan’s platform called for a Medicare buy-in proposal so that people without insurance between the ages of 55 and 65 could purchase coverage through the popular public program for the elderly.
The proposal has attracted renewed attention as a possible compromise measure [...]
