I read Garyâs column about Roy Cooper â Iâve only met Roy a couple of times but, even though we disagreed on issues, he was always polite, courteous. And thatâs rare in politics these days. Trump unending Senator Thom Tillis came as a shock â most folks figured Tillis would work out a deal with…
Almost every day, somebody asks me, âWill Roy Cooper run for Senate?â Yes. I have no inside information. But the former governor is putting together his campaign team. Heâs speaking out on social media. And heâs wise to wait. Waiting keeps the focus on who Trump picks to run for Senator Thom Tillisâ seat. Trump,…
A veteran of North Carolina politics said something that surprised me: âThe more I look at the world, the more Iâm convinced that the answer to our problems is love.â Love is a word you donât hear much in politics today. The Time of Trump is a time of hate. Every day, he searches for…
Seven years old, in 1933, waking up in a strange bed, staring into the semidarkness, he thought he was in Grand Central Railroad Station in New York. He wasnât. He was in a hospital in his hometown near the border of Wales. Heâd never set foot in New York City. Turning his head he saw…
Letâs talk about the MAGA world. Trump tells a Republican Congressman âVote for thisâ and even though the Congressman thinks itâs a bad bill he votes the way Trump wants. How did Trump get that kind of power? Letâs take a look at North Carolina: We have 10 Republican Congressmen, all elected in ruby-red Republican…
While deadly floods hit Texas and North Carolina, Trump is gutting the National Weather Service, gutting FEMA and aggravating climate change, which causes more calamitous storms. He golfs while Americans drown. A headline in the Guardian said, âDeadly floods could be new normal as Trump guts federal agencies, experts warn.â Talking about the Texas disaster…
Democrats have been gloating over Senator Thom Tillis’ political demise. We should be quoting him. Tillis is the single best validator of Democratsâ single most powerful issue against Trump and Republicans: the deep, devastating and life-threatening cuts in healthcare they rammed through Congress last week. He challenged them in a floor speech: âSo, what do…
Do an independent campaign, John Bolton told me a year before the 1980 election. Puzzled, I frowned, Whatâs an independent campaign? No corporation could give an independent campaign a penny, no person could give more than $5000. But 200,000 conservatives across the country had given $25 or $50 contributions to Jesse Helmsâ 1978 campaign so…
The sheep, not the elephant, should be the symbol of todayâs Republican Party. N.C. House Speaker Destin Hall said this last week about who will replace Senator Thom Tillis: âWe must unify behind whoever President Trump picks.â âWhoever President Trump picksâ? As of last week, there were 2,290,923 registered Republican voters in North Carolina. But…
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