No Labels (and no soup) for Thom Tillis
Thomas Roland Tillis — US senator and brother to Thomas Richard Tillis, former Tennessee legislator who reportedly had his desk chair peed upon – is what folks around these parts call *a piece of work.*
His motivation for getting into government? The spiraling debt? deficit spending? Crime? Terrorism? None of that. He wanted his local government to pony up for a bike trail.
Tillis did all he could to cause problems for Donald Trump during his first presidency. Going on TV to trash the border wall proposal. That kind of thing. In spite of all that, Trump was still gracious enough to endorse Tillis in his tough 2020 re-election bid.
Tillis did a great job of thumbing his nose at the rest of us while he was in DC. Carrying water for the border-crashers, the gays and the gun-grabbers. Boasting about ‘crossing the aisle’ to make the Democrats happy about judicial confirmations. He’s mocked the folks back home over “conspiracy theories’ regarding FEMA, even as we are all learning about the horrible job FEMA has been doing in Western North Carolina.
Trump just got re-elected. So, Tillis has decided to go through the motions of appearing to play nice. The natives are restless and calling for Thom’s head again. He’s escaped them twice by less than 50 percent. Thom needs a new grift to make it happen again.
If you ask Thom and his cronies, they will tell you HE is not the problem. *All of the conservatives — you know, the *crazies* who believe that stuff in the platform — are the ones killing the GOP with the voters.* Meanwhile, his current home county of Mecklenburg is overrun with leftist kooky Democrats. Nary a conservative GOPer in sight around those parts.
The GOP’s fortunes have been crashing there since Thom’s homie Pat McCrory first said ‘Uhhhhhh, OK’ at his first swearing-in as Charlotte mayor.
(FWIW — Thom Tillis’s voting record this session has been to the left of socialist-leaning independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont.)
Thom’s latest nanny-nanny-boo-boo at us was his decision to speak at today’s *No Labels* national meeting. (At one point, *No Labels* was spear-headed by the NAACP’s Ben Chavis and Pat McCrory.)
*No Labels* is a confab of Democrats and Republicans really annoyed by people in their parties who stand for stuff and demand that their elected officials stand for stuff.
The list of senators set to speak at the group’s meeting is basically the same group of Republicans who are most likely to vote against Trump’s appointees and policy agenda. The fact that our senior senator is one of those senators ought to tick off a few folks — at least.
Biggest point is who the dems run for this seat. Mid-year elections, tend to help other party. Is Coop running? If so, job probably his. Can Tillis get primaried? Let’s hope that is the case. A strong conservative arises (not any 2024 failed candidate for COS). The campaigns of COS candidates were abysmal.
Michael Speciale for US Senate!
Yes. I will vote for him, work for him, and I will contribute. The problem is my contribution cannot compete with a Tillis military industrial complex donation or a George Soros and son contribution to Roy Cooper. We better start raising money now.
Elon Musk said himself he’s the George Soros of the right. Tillis needs to be on Musk’s SWAMP DRAINAGE LIST.
If Speciale and Bishop both run, clearly Tillis would win.
Yes. Conservatives need to settle on one candidate in the primary. Flooding the primary with conservatives in conjunction with the 30% threshold is the recipe for the well-funded establishment candidate prevailing in our rotten primaries. Tillis has benefited from this scenario before. So have others; the Walter Jones replacement in the 3rd Congressional District comes to mind. As long as we are dumb enough to be forced into playing that warped game we had better be twice as smart and twice as disciplined in everything else.
Seeing posts Bishop will be running.
Need 1 strong conservative in primary.
As we learned this year, Bishop doesn’t have good judgment and didn’t message worth a damn to win his last election.. I’ve no confidence in any campaign he’d throw together to try, either against Tillis or a Dem in the general. Wish it could be Speciale, he’s no fool.
PLEASE read Washington Examiner post yesterday on Coop’s admin handling of hurricane relief funds!
Wood & current NC Auditor HAVE issued reports of GLARING abuse across several appointees
Mind you, BOTH auditors ARE dems; not r’s. NOT a witchhunt.
SAME results as a the missing funds & overspending at DOT., across several appointees!
WHAT is our Gen Assembly’s response & action.
CALL your local reps. Cool must have this hung around his neck & NEVER serve again. BLATANT corruption , purposely.