#ncsen: Club For Growth TV ad *b-slaps* Gov. Pat
I’ve said it before. It sure would be nice if North Carolina Republicans would be as harsh on the Democrats as they are on each other.
Congressman Ted Budd, former Gov. Pat McCrory, and former Congressman “Public Official A” (aka Mark Walker) are the leading GOP contenders to replace the retiring Richard Burr in the US Senate. The Tillis Crowd — aka “The UpTown Charlotte crowd” — is all in for Pat McCrory. Conservatives and Trump fans appear to be all in for Budd.
The GOP race has already gotten nasty. Somebody dumped some oppo to McClatchy (likely the McCrory-Tillis crew) trying to tie Budd to some convoluted bankruptcy court case that we’re TOLD “hurt farmers.”
Anyone in the Charlotte area who watched the Panthers yesterday got a good look at the, um, response from Budd fans. The DC-based Club For Growth – a PAC which backs candidates who are good and conservative on fiscal issues — broadcast an ad that integrated itself into the game and labeled McCrory “Disloyal”, “Liberal”, and a “Loser.”
The ad ends with a picture of McCrory hugged up to Barry Obama and the words “Can’t Win.”
The Disloyal part comes from what many saw as McCrory’s weak support for President Trump on the campaign trail. (I’ve also heard from friends from Murphy to Manteo about how then-Gov. McCrory’s team regularly blew off Republican activists who helped McCrory get to Raleigh and gave key appointments to influence-peddling, big-check-writing Democrats.)
And the Liberal part? Some of us remember McCrory siding with then-House speaker Thom Tillis against senate president pro term Phil Berger. Tillis and McCrory wanted to spend more money. Berger did not. So, we had quite a political logjam in Republican-controlled Raleigh.
Hold on to your hats, folks. The Tillis-Shumaker crowd, which is running the McCrory effort, is famous for eschewing conservatism and, instead, going for conservatives’ jugular veins. It’s early, but it’s clearly going to get rough.
Wow, that is a killer ad. I hope to see it broadcast in my area of the state. McCrory is another Richard Burr / Thom Tillis and NC does NOT need that.
That far fetched smear against Budd undoubtedly originated with liberal RINO consultant Shumaker concocting it and feeding it to the left wing media. I understand it was also fed to the Washington (Bezos) Post, the Pravda on the Potomac. Since far left oligarch Jeff Bezos took over the Post, it has gone even farther to the left and become little more than a leftist propaganda sheet.
The scandal that ought to be out there more is the sexual harassment allegations by a male ABC News reporter against Pat McCrory. The reporter, Alex Peterson, is the same one who outed Lincoln Project pervert John Weaver.
Peterson says that in an interview with McCrory while he was governor, Peterson asked McCrory for his microphone back, and McCrory smirked, leaned in, and said he had hoped that Peterson would have reached in his pocket for it. Maybe that helps explain why McCrory supported repeal of HB2, the bathroom bill.
Maybe that also explains why the Charlotte LGBTQ+ crowd and the Dems were happy with him as mayor.