The issues facing our state — rebuilding western North Carolina, creating good jobs, strengthening public schools, ensuring safe neighborhoods, and protecting personal freedoms — are not partisan issues; they are North Carolina issues…To build a brighter future for everyone in our state, we must come together across our differences and get to work. I’m ready to go.
Cooper/ Stein slow-walked the response to Hurricane Helene. Now, they are suddenly advocating the rebuild of western North Carolina– perhaps in their own image. They advocate for awful public schools enacting woke agendas and disorder. They undermine crime control. They worked together to take away our constitutional rights and freedom during Covid.
Listen to everything they say, and presume they mean the precise opposite, because that is their pattern.
The people of North Carolina often make horrible choices for elected officials at the state and local levels. Last night was no different.
Stein– a Jewish progressive/ socialist– won the state of North Carolina which was previously understood to be a Bible belt state. No more.
Pretty Boy Jeff Jackson defeated Dan Bishop and will become attorney general. He now must be regarded as a future governor because the pattern in our state is that socialist attorneys general will later run for governor and win. Let’s see in eight years if the pattern holds.
Bishop’s loss is tragic. He is a truly fine elected official. I hope there is another context for him to plug in and serve.
Mo Green represents the very worst that public education has to offer; and he defeated Michele Morrow.
There is a bright side in the state courts. The Republican justices at the level of NC Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals all prevailed. Notably, Jefferson Griffin defeated the incumbent Allison Riggs by a fairly narrow margin. This was after Riggs had committed violations of judicial ethics during her campaign.
Another positive note is that Luke Farley won the race for Commissioner of Labor.
Republicans retained control of the General Assembly. But recall that the Republicans in Raleigh have taken a sharp turn leftward during recent years. They passed Medicaid Expansion under Obamacare; and also passed a bill permitting abortion through the first three months of pregnancy. Who needs Democrats when you have Raleigh Republicans?
Here in Guilford County, the socialists swept the Guilford Board of County Commissioners races. And predictably, Bill Goebel’s independent run for school board to spite Republican Michael Logan threw the race into the hands of the socialist candidate. Mission accomplished.
The Republicans are nearly a non-entity in Guilford County at this point. And in the state of North Carolina, there is a longstanding pattern of failing to produce and support strong conservative candidates who can win the offices of governor and state attorney general.
One side note: My friend, Kevin Hayes, ran for Congress on the Constitution Party line against Addison McDowell and gained 103,000 votes. To my knowledge, that is a record for Constitution Party candidates in the state of North Carolina. Unfortunately, Vinny Smith did not secure a sufficient portion of the vote in the governor’s race to assure the Constitution Party will retain ballot access.
Big disappointments. Go figure
The Republicans really need to do a better job advocating for their statewide candidates, Fred, when they are really conservative.