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CAUTION To Host Prospective Candidate Forum Organization Seeks to “Demystify” the Campaign Process Charlotte, NC – January 31, 2012 – Common Americans United to Inspire OUR Nation (CAUTION) announced today that the organization will host a forum during their February 6 meeting to bring together prospective candidates for public office with elected officials, political party […]
February 1, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Dear Sir, I am a second generation small textile manufacturer, inventor, and business owner. In trying to understand the players and to make the right choice in the next election for our Country I have been divided in my support of you and your positions particularly your foreign policy. Last night as I watch the Iowa returns […]
January 29, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
You had better be seated for this one. Guess what Charlotte taxpayers are now being asked to pay for? Take a look in the “Smart Money” section of the January 22, 2012 edition of The Charlotte Observer. It is amazing just how much Charlotte is willing to spend, much less what it has spent, to […]
January 24, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Here are a couple of articles from 1st Freedom (NRA’s magazine) showing the arrogance of the administration. The second piece (with chronology of events) shows how some democrats in the administration are using their own failed program as justification for additional regulations. This program and Attorney General Holder’s behavior is so egregious that 30+ Democrat […]
January 15, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
As a student and professor of politics, I enjoy predicting what will happen in the political realm in the near future. Given the potentially tumultuous nature of the upcoming 2012 election, I have decided to stick my neck out there and make some predictions about what will happen in the next 12 months. I am […]
January 12, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Once more we find the abomination that is ObamaNation finding a way to control more of the common serf’s lives and yet still blame the other guy while doing so. Last year Carl Levin (D) and John McCain (R) wrote up a pretty little bill packaged in secret and tried passing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) behind closed […]
January 3, 2012 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
… next time you see him, on back-to-back years of double-digit increases … in HOMELESSNESS. Oh, wait – homelessness is bad – never mind. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/29/2882998/homelessness-among-families-up.html
December 30, 2011 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Chiquita Banana is moving its headquarters from Cincinnati to downtown Charlotte. The cost is $2 million in city tax incentives and $20 million from the state. At the last minute Chiquita Banana asked for $5 million in moving expenses to seal the deal…….and they got it. Cincinnati only coughed up a total of approximately $6 million, […]
December 3, 2011 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Herman Cain, whose status as a GOP presidential front-runner had already been tainted by accusations of sexual harassment, denied on Monday that he’d had a nearly 14-year, affair with an Atlanta businesswoman. Ginger White told Atlanta local news station WAGA-TV that she had a sexual relationship with Cain that began in the late 1990s when […]
November 30, 2011 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »
Charlotte may soon have a toll road (I-485) in order to pay for additional lanes. This precedence setting progressive move is happening under the watch of a Republican controlled General Assembly. Considering NC has the 3rd highest gasoline taxes in the nation (soon maybe the 2nd highest), does NC need to raise transit revenues with […]
November 23, 2011 | Posted in House Mail | Read More »