Category: Congress
NC-09: “Baseless” in 2016 = NOBLE in 2018-19
It’s funny how Pat McCrory’s concerns about vote fraud in 2016 – which sound a lot like the stuff we’re talking about NOW — were derided by leftists as “baseless”. But, in 2018, when they’re on the losing end, they’ll fuss about the same stuff…
NC-09: Can We Talk?
It sounds like the Mark Harris campaign is in the mood: Perhaps this is a first step toward an armistice / truce in this fight over the Ninth Congressional District? It’s interesting how quiet the McCready campaign has gotten, and how Robert Pittenger is suddenly…
NC-09: 48 subpoenas (and NO ONE to serve them)
Hillary Clinton’s lawyer has stepped up to represent Dan McCready (D) in the political sideshow currently engulfing the Ninth Congressional District. Marc Elias has written to former state board of elections chairman Josh Malcolm to lay out his need for 48 subpoenas to be issued…
How much border wall does $5 bil. get you?
It appears somebody went out there and figured it all out: As Congress battles over President Trump’s demand for $5 billion in border-wall funding, Homeland Security officials explained Friday what that money could actually buy. According to DHS officials, the funding would cover the construction…
NCGOPe decides to start fighting FOR Mark Harris
(It looks and sounds like they’ve been getting an earful from outside the Raleigh beltline on this.) Here’s where we stand. A three judge state panel (2Ds, 1R) ordered the current state elections board to be dissolved. On Thursday, the legislature overrode a Cooper veto…
NC-09: State elections board? (Buh-bye.)
That’s the latest word from the bench amid the chaos of the Ninth Congressional District chaos: A three-judge panel overseeing a lawsuit challenging the current makeup of the North Carolina State Board of Elections issued a new ruling Thursday night that effectively dissolves the board at…
#ncga: OVERRIDE !!!!
We saw something today we’re not likely to see much of over the next two years: an overridden veto. The House and Senate overrode Roy Cooper’s veto of HB 1029 — legislation to reform the state board of elections and ethics commissions. The bill…
#ncga: GOP majority screwing Mark Harris for Christmas
Mark Harris is a Baptist preacher. He lives by the principle of loving your enemies. (The guy is waaaaaaaay too nice for politics.) After he lost the 2014 primary for US Senate, he went to work campaigning for Thom Tillis ( while Greg Brannon told…
NC-09: NCSBE chairman’s kin PAID $$$$ to campaign for Dan McCready?
NC state elections board chairman Joshua Malcolm already has an ethical dilemma on his hands — chairing an investigation into campaign dealings in his home county involving a political machine he has long defended and supported. The current hubbub over the Ninth Congressional District got…
NC-09: State election chaos upends Columbus County sheriff’s race
State efforts to block certification of local races in the Ninth Congressional District have bled over to a local race in the neighboring Seventh District. Apparently, the state board of elections is asking for a de-certification of the disputed November 2018 sheriff’s race in Columbus…
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