Uptown Paper Pulls Pendergraph Endorsement
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a broadsheet flip-flop quite so aggressively as Charlotte’s uptown paper jettisoning its support of Jim Pendergraph in the 9th Congressional District Republican primary.
The Observer was initially all-aboard the Pendergraph express when he was schmoozing the paper’s editorial braintrust with talk about embracing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants and acknowledgments that “taxes may have to rise as part of a comprehensive plan to erase the deficit.”
Higher taxes and free passes for illegals? Count us in, concluded the uptown paper. Until Pendergraph “rallied in Huntersville with Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Melvillian character on a never-ending crusade against Latinos,” as the editorial board opined.
The uptown paper’s shoulder turned even colder after Pendergraph let slip that he has “reason to be suspicious” about whether President Obama was born in the United States.
“… Generally when there’s smoke, there’s got to be fire somewhere,” he said, even as he acknowledged “I haven’t seen the facts.”
It all gives one the sense that Pendergraph will say whatever a given audience wants to hear, if it will help him get elected. That makes how he would act in Congress a mystery.
Apparently not wanting to take any chances with their double-dipped endorsement going sour, the paper’s editorial board now finds favor with not one, but two candidates: state Rep. Ric Killian and former city councilmember Edwin Peacock.
It remains debatable whether candidates looking to impress conservative voters in the Republican-heavy 9th District should consider TCO’s stamp of approval a positive development, or if Pendergraph should consider his newly minted anti-endorsement in the same light.
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