Furthermore, the Charlotte Observer is reporting that Democrat Party leaders in the Eighth Congressional District have had their phones ringing off the hook from angry party faithful pissed off over Kissell’s decision to vote no. There are already talks of primary challenges, which if successful would probably [...]
North Carolina has not been left out in the phantom districts stimulus sweepstakes. It has six of the 440 phantom districts in which the Obama administration has claimed stimulus jobs were “saved or created”:
North Carolina has distributed more than $5.7 million in federal stimulus money to six congressional [...]
Our friends at Watchdog.org have done a great job of exposing the shoddy recordkeeping and the awarding of stimulus funds to phantom congressional districts in various states. After reading the story, I did a little digging myself and learned some interesting things about stimulus funds in North Carolina. First, [...]
Dan Mansell, a Selma businessman and local Republican leader, will make another run at the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge.
Mansell, 52, announced last week that he's a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2nd congressional district. He has run for the seat twice [...]
This afternoon I had the pleasure of having a telephone interview with Tim D’Annunzio, Republican candidate for the U.S. House in North Carolina’s Eighth Congressional District. I spoke to him for about 45 minutes and was able to ask him a variety of different policy questions from [...]
It becomes more and more obvious that health care reform is needed. In just one short Google search on the NC 11th Congressional district the following information was found. It is appalling that the amount of uninsured in the district. In a quick search of Congressman Shuler’s official website ([...]
Keep up the pressure. This oppression of American freedom has to be stopped.
The Obama Administration’s push for health care reform suffered a severe blow from North Carolina’s Eighth U.S. Congressional District after Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell announced he will vote “No” on the bill being presented.
In a statement, Kissell said [...]
James Galyean is one of the candidates running for the House seat in South Carolina’s Third Congressional District that is being vacated by Gresham Barrett. According to a post on his campaign Web site, there is chatter that the Obama Administration is planning [...]
I live in Black Mountain where (semi-D) Heath Shuler is the congressman for this Congressional district. The ol' Quarterback (recipient of of 130k in health care industry donations)has stated his opposition to a Public Option because it "is not deficit neutral." That seems to be politico speak for giving' [...]
