We have some exciting events coming up over the next two months.  Here’s a quick preview:

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YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US FOR OUR

Saturday, September, 4, 2010, 4:00-8:00 pm

City Park, Hwy 70/Main Street, Havelock, NC

With Focus on the following Issues:
Immigration & Amnesty
Taxes, Jobs & the Economy
Voting & Voting as a Responsibility

♫   Music by the ‘Metz Girls’  ♫

Special Guest Speakers: 

Rev. Walter Leake & Mrs. Carol Leake;
Cuban Immigrant, Jose (Joe) Dominguez;
Jeff Lewis, NC Fire Coalition; 
Melvin Cooper, (Rt. 70 Corridor Project);
Francis DeLuca, Exec. Director, Civitas Institute;
Becki Gray, VP for Outreach, John Locke Foundation;
Hal James, CCTA’s Craven Co. Government Watchdog
and a speaker from FreedomWorks. 

There will be an “Open Mike” session for …read more

Ok, I’m going to bring up a subject that no one wants to talk about: Marc Basnight’s desire and ability to serve. If elected to another term, will Basnight fulfill the full year two year term or will he step down and allow a successor to be appointed by the Democrat County Chairs of the eight counties in his district?

First scenario, will his deteriorating health cause him to step down mid-term? His doctor said, in September, that the neurological disorder is not affecting his cognitive abilities and “It’s not going to get bad very fast.”

I ask you to listen to a clip of Senator Basnight in January 2009 and then listen to a clip of him one year later. …read more

NC GOP Chair Tom Fetzer announced on March 23rd that he had found some unusual contributions made to Senator Basnight from Hobbs Upchurch & Associates, donations similar to the potentially unlawful contributions made by employees of Atlantic Corp. Readers of this blog are fully aware of my numerous posts on the donations made by Atlantic Corp and Hobbs Upchurch to Marc Basnight. I bit my tongue when Fetzer called for an investigation into contributions from Atlantic Corp to Governor Perdue. Mainly because I had not reported on the Perdue contributions, only those given to Basnight. But the press conference on March 23rd about the Hobbs contributions …read more

On Friday, Governor Beverly Perdue returned $48000 in donations from Atlantic Corp because of the possibility that the donations were illegal. The donations, you may recall from my November post, were made by officers of Atlantic Corp all on the same day for the maximum amount of $4000.  The NC State Board of Elections is investigating whether the employees were reimbursed for their contributions. On Saturday, Marc Basnight asked the NC State Board of Elections …read more