#ncga: Berger endorsing a Dem for November who has GOP opposition
Remember all those scoldings we get from GOPe types about party loyalty? About holding your nose and voting for them even if you really disagree with them? Too bad the GOPe doesn’t seem to give a flip about that kind of thing.
Up in Rockingham County, the Berger Boys (Phil, Kevin, and Phil Jr.) call most of the shots. Daddy is the state senate president. Junior is on the Supreme Court. Kevin is chairman of the Rockingham County commissioners. *Quite a cozy arrangement — a mighty powerful family dinner, I must say.*
I wrote in 2018 about catching Big Phil begging a major Dem donor in Lee County for cash. Who KNOWS what he promised to get the cash. This situation is more problematic. You have an arguable leader of the NCGOP endorsing a Democrat candidate over a GOP opponent in the November elections.
The problem? According. to THIS, Wiison will face Republican John Morris on the November ballot. (Morris is the Rockingham County attorney.)
NCGOP rules say working FOR a Democrat AGAINST a Republican is grounds for sanctions like removal from party offices. Berger, like most senior GOP elected officials, is a member of the NCGOP’s ruling executive committee.
I know. Some folks will try to defend Berger’s move by calling Wilson a “conservative.” How does that explain away the endorsement of Republican John Morris’s opponent?
Oh. Here is the Morris campaign’s info. With the Bergers working against him, he is going to need all the help he can get.
I did a little checking. According to THIS, Wilson has served as an aide to former US senator Terry Sanford (D) — certainly no conservative — and has been a Fellow at the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The Reynolds Foundation is quite leftie. Civitas once described the Foundation as “the roots of radicalism.”
Morris’s career background makes him appear to be respectably conservative. So, WHY is a senior NCGOP leader working against him and endorsing a Democrat?
The Phils are running all over NC hawking the importance of electing GOP judges. But here we have senator Phil pushing for the reelection of a Democrat judge.
I say we introduce the Bergers to karma the next time Junior shows up on a ballot.
Phil Berger has crossed the line. He needs to be held accountable for party disloyalty, just as Richard Morgan was, and banned from holding any office in the party. If memory serves, the Senate leader may also hold a seat on the NCGOP state central committee. To avoid a flare up at the executive committee, our state chairman needs to get Berger to resign his party posts.
Berger has long sold out Republican voters on issues – HB2, Green New Deal (HB951), Obamacare Medicaid expansion, etc. Now he is selling us out on actual partisan elections.
Not picking a side here, but I thought I would clarify the rules.
The plan of organization prevents someone from using “the dignity of” their PARTY office to make an improper endorsement. So Senator Berger would be breaking the rules if he made his endorsement “as a member of the executive committee or as a member of Central committee.”
But that would not apply to him making an endorsement as a legislator or as “Senator.”
All legislators make endorsements as “legislators” not as committee members. That is why this provision is not applied against legislators or elected officials.
The wisdom of the action is another matter
The action is Party disloyalty and there is no spinning that.
Dallas, with all due respect, you can’t spin Senator Phil Berger’s endorsement and support of Judge Wilson only as a legislator/Senator. He is the President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate and a NCGOP leader. According to the NCGOP rules, working for/endorsing a Democrat (Judge Wilson) against a Republican candidate (John Morris for Judge) is grounds for sanctions. Senator Berger’s action is not only against the rules, it is contrary to the efforts of the NC Judicial Candidates who are traveling the state to elect conservative judges at the state level and asking for funds to do so (https://judges.nc.gop/about). Republican John Morris for Judge is endorsed and supported by NCGOP Chairman Michael Whatley. If Senator Berger sits on the NCGOP Executive Committee, and the Central Committee, Chairman Whatley should remove him from these positions. As an aside, Senator Berger, please don’t sent anymore emails to me asking for funds. You are not on my list of candidates to support. Evelyn Poole-Kober
you need to re read the Plan of Organization. It now says ALL REPUBLICANS in the Party disloyality section, makes no distinction on legislators.
Dallas,
Thank you for the sunshine. I could not subject my conscious to such.
Too much sun can burn.
A remnant son
I would not trust anything Woodhouse says on anything regarding being a conservative.
Dallas is a psychophant of those in power. Defending their inappropriate actions is as natural as breathing to him.
NC needs a new party, a conservative one.
Both dem and gop have left me and I suspect most anyone else that is deemed a Jesse Helms conservative.
Mostly, NC get dem and dem-lite as candidates and like their uniparty counterparts in DC, its a loss either way.
This is truly bizarre. Berger has lost all credibility with this stunt. I am dumbfounded.
Berger should have lost all credibility already with anyone paying attention:
– repeal of bathroom / locker room privacy law (HB2)
– power play to enact radical climate alarmist Green New Deal (HB 951)
– power play to pass Obamacare Medicaid expansion
– bringing Soros’ radical ERIC to NC’s election process, slipped into budget
What’s the difference between Berger and AOC? One wears a skirt, and the other does not, at least not that we know of. It’s way past time to flip the Berger.
I agree with most of your comment, except for the speculation about Sen. Berger wearing a dress. All the missteps you mention angered me, as well. As for ERIC, I questioned our misleadership about putting that in the budget, and was told, “They aren’t perfect, but they are the best available” for the job. It deeply disturbs me that no NCGOP official seems willing to challenge Sen. Berger’s endorsement of this Democrat, while just recently, a local Republican Women’s President was removed from the local GOP Executive Committee simply because her group invited all of the Republican candidates for the local school board to a candidate forum, instead of just the three endorsed by the Executive Committee. She did not endorse anyone, and certainly did not use her position to make an endorsement, but simply invited Republican candidates whom the majority of the Executive Committee did not approve. The GOP should have no room for such double standards, power hunger, and overstepping of authority.
Congressional delegations and our state legislative leaders have spent years chipping away at the power of the grassroots to ensure the Party would never hold them accountable. That’s why the Ncgop has an RNC puppet as state chairman instead of a conservative. And that’s not going to change, too many non-conservative county and district leaders will see to that. The RNC and the ncgop have one purpose and that is to serve the interests of K street in DC and Jones street in Raleigh.
These people do not deserve our support.
The doors to the Speakers office and that to the office of the Senate President should have red lights installed over them. These two nominally “Republican” officials do nothing but prostitute themselves to the greedy and crooked special interests and to Roy Cooper. Grassroots Republicans are disgusted by political whores Phil Berger and Tim Moore.
I fully agree, but in my opinion, the two biggest political whores in NC are Burr and Tillis. These fake Republicans take the meaning of whoredom to an entirely new level of meaning
If you live in NC Senate District 26, WRITE-IN ALVIN ROBINSON
https://writeinalvinrobinson4ncsenate26.com/
FLIP THE BERGER
The NCGOP under the leadership of Phil Berger and Tim Moore is nothing more than the red shirt wing of the NC Uniparty.
Under NCGA Republican Majority, North Carolinians were masked (S232), tested, tracked, traced (H1043), enrolled in ERIC (S103)…
Additional homeschool oversight was funded (S105) along with the Green New Deal (HB951) that will double or triple household energy costs, gaslight already skyrocketing inflation, and shrink an already intentionally “COVID” devastated economy as we push toward their hard left climate change activist “carbon neutral” 2030/2050 goals.
For the first time in state history, North Carolinians can be isolated and quarantined by class or category instead of individually (nice T-up to Nazi Germany and the continued war on the “unvaccinated”) (S105, S103).
Berger and Moore joined Cooper and minority leaders in a 2021 PSA/commercial campaign telling all North Carolinians to get their mRNA gene editing “vaccines” and now that the truth is out about how lethal they are—silence and cowardice—more power to DHHS, and more funding for endless experimental injections with NO INFORMED CONSENT. History will place them squarely on the side of Nuremberg criminals.
Berger and Moore killed every bill (HB558 and S572) that would have protected North Carolinians from workplace discrimination, educational discrimination, and even private sector discrimination under government mandated totalitarian “COVID” masking, testing, tracking, tracing, and vaccine mandates and diktats.
Instead of limiting the power of government to abuse and terrorize We the People, they empowered it again and again.
Berger and Moore have neither the moral courage nor the political will to align with the principles of conservatism or the Republican Party platform much less plant their feet firmly on the right side of God or human history.
Instead, THEY helped transform NC from a deep Red Bible Belt state to a totalitarian hellhole we should simply rename East California-all the while blaming Cooper for the bills THEY colluded with him to pass.
They think we are stupid. And if we re-elect them, we are.
All North Carolinians should unite and work together to replace Phil Berger in the midterms with write-in candidate, Alvin Robinson-a righteous man and a citizen statesman Patriot—the polar opposite of Berger who is the epitome of the corrupt politician.
It is past time to “Flip the Berger.”
Until lambs become lions…
NC will continue its relentless transition to Communism under the facade of “Republican leadership” and liberty will fade into a distant memory.
On the bright side, I actually appreciate the fact that Berger is now openly endorsing Democrats. He is so secure in his “power”, he is no longer even attempting to hide who he is or where he stands. He has peeled back the curtain on his own clown show.
Those who vote for him are no longer without excuse.
Godspeed Alvin Robinson for S26.