Four years ago last month I had already made my decision for whom to vote in the Republican Primary election for President. My support for Mike Huckabee came after an ever so brief bout of support for Mitt Romney. (Boy oh boy does it hurt to admit that given what I’ve since come to realize […]
Beverly Perdue was the first North Carolina Governor to veto a state budget. She is now the first North Carolina Governor to have her budget veto overridden. While it was widely reported that the Thom Tillis led North Carolina House would vote to override the veto on Wednesday, it came as a surprise when it […]
Any speculation as to whether Governor Perdue would veto the recently passed North Carolina budget was put to rest on Sunday when she did what any good partisan running for reelection would do…she vetoed it and proceeded to send a fundraising email to supporters the following day claiming that the Republican-drawn budget will do “generational damage” to […]
For those who missed it, South Carolina Congressman Mick Mulvaney hosted a town hall meeting on June 8, 2011 in Lake Wylie, SC. He began with a roughly half an hour long presentation on the dire fiscal situation that the US finds itself in and then took questions from the audience. This is the video […]
If there were any doubt that the Tea Party remains alive and active, attending the North Carolina Republican Convention last weekend would have put those doubts to rest. The heavily attended convention in Wilmington was filled with celebratory members of the GOP who for the first time in over a century could come to convention […]
Never one to fear a good counter protest, I’d like to encourage folks to attend Congressman Mick Mulvaney’s Town Hall meeting in Lake Wylie tonight. Mick is one of the “good guys”, as evidenced by the planned protest by Organizing for America. From CAUTION and Freedomworks: Organizing For America (OFA), President Obama’s well-funded political outfit, […]
The following letter was sent to House Speaker Thom Tillis by Representative Glen Bradley, whose NC Jobs Bill (HB 587) has been all but ignored by Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor Chairman Darrell McCormick. McCormick, in fact, is even accused of becoming physically confrontational with Bradley over Bradley’s attempts to simply […]
From the MeckGOP and CAUTION: There will be a public hearing on May 19th. Register and make your voice heard over our property revaluation and a host of other fiscal issues that our county has handled so poorly. The Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, May 19, […]
A rejection by the South Carolina House of Representatives to offer corporate giant Amazon.com an exemption from collecting sales tax in the state for five years in exchange for building a new facility in Lexington County has created a firestorm of debate on the proper role of government in attracting business to the state. This […]
It was a gloomy day in Columbia, SC, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of FairTax supporters from across the state who came to witness the official launch of the South Carolina FairTax Act (H3993) in the State House of Representatives. Speaking to the media at a 2pm press conference were House Representative Bill Taylor […]