#ncpol NC-02: Child Abuse.
Renee Ellmers’s team put out the word long ago that they would not be 
debating ANY of their girl’s FOUR primary opponents. But, a circumstance has developed causing them to break from that narrative:
Kay Daly fired a gun and proclaimed she is hunting RINOs (or Republicans in name only) in a September ad introducing her campaign against incumbent Congresswoman Renee Ellmers in the Second Congressional District.
Daly, one of four candidates challenging Ellmers in the GOP primary, now has an attention-grabbing campaign fund-raising message with the provocative subject line “My Congressman is a child abuser.” In the body of the message, Daly blames the three-term congresswoman for a national debt that the next generation of taxpayers cannot repay, and claims Ellmers rejected 33 chances to shave money from federal department budgets or programs.
“I call it what it is: it’s child abuse. It’s fiscal child abuse, and it must end,” Daly’s email says.[…]
THAT brought out a rebuttal from Big Govt Barbie™ campaign spokesman Patrick Sebastian (a/k/a “Pat McCrory’s nephew”, a/k/a “Lil’ Guv”, hashtag #lilguv) :
[…] Patrick Sebastian, an Ellmers campaign adviser, disputed Daly’s claims.
“Honestly, almost nothing Kay Daly says is true,” said Sebastain, who called Ellmers “one of the most conservative members of Congress.”
Ellmers “has a record of cutting spending,” he said. “We can actually back that record up with facts.”[…]
“One of the most conservative members of Congress”? Which Congress? The one in session NOW? In DC? Um, I don’t think so. 
Heritage Action says she is the most liberal Republican House member from North Carolina. Conservative Review rates her as one of the most liberal North Carolina Republicans in the House — beating out only David Rouzer and Robert Pittenger. So WHERE is Lil’ Guv getting his information from?
Also, folks in government have a different idea on what constitutes spending cuts than the rest of us do. Government budgets regularly factor in an eight percent yearly increase. If you approve only a seven percent increase from the previous year — in their eyes — you are cutting spending. Even though you are spending MORE. Got it?
Think about it. In your household, if you spend $200 per month LESS on entertainment but 
spend $250 per month MORE on gas, have you really cut spending?
Also, federal spending has gone crazy under Ellmers and her friends in the GOP leadership. In 2009, the year before Ellmers was elected, federal spending reached a 20-year high at $3.79 trillion. In 2012, it came down to $3.64 trillion, thanks to the Budget Control Act and its sequestration provisions that Ellmers has been running around bad-mouthing.
In 2015, the federal budget stood at $3.8 trillion. No one is cutting any spending. You can reduce one line item, and then pile a bunch of money into another line item. That’s not cutting spending. It’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It’s a con. It’s a shell game. And it’s a travesty.
nobody in their right mind could call this idiot conservative!!! she is quite the opposite of the conservatives in 02. she has repeatedly gone against all of us . she loves EXIM lol and I have her email responses to verify. I opposed it and she voted FOR it. I can say that about every single 1 of her votes
…..we’ve been renee&davidWHACKED! These two liberal clowns MUST GO!
95% of our Congressional spending illness can be attributed to lack of term limits. EVERYONE seeking re-elction sells their souls to finance that re-election. Ellmers is no different, selling her’s to the Chamber of Commerce. Will all the contenders for NC-2 and the Senate sign a legally binding term limits pledge? It is the ONLY pledge to the voters that they can actually keep, and in doing so, restore elected office to service to the country. Six years in the House of Reps, six in the Senate. Then, go home and live among your family and neighbors under the laws you help enact. Nullify the professional political class that is destroying America from inside the Beltway (and from inside Raleigh).
While we must get rid of Renee, this gun toting whacko serves only to point out Renee’s record. Neither should represent D2.
I agree with a lot said here… However one thing I don’t… if we are going to call here voting record child abuse then most everyone up there is an abuser.. just a thought..
Running her campaign on the Editorial Pages of the newspapers in her district. The problem with Renee is the fact she cannot or will not face the conservative voters of her district cause she is not a conservative. Just a “run around D. C.’ party girl. Tell the truth Renee and do it soon cause March is coming.
Conservatives ought to be responding by answering every op-ed she puts in a newspaper with letters to the editor calling her out on her misrepresentations of fact. Indeed, her opponents themselves ought to be sending in such letters or better yet, their own op-ed pieces disagreeing with her.