Senator For Sale
People joke about elected officials being motivated solely by cash. But I had never seen such an open, blatant, in-your-face example of that until Thom Tillis showed up on the scene. This guy has no guiding principles whatsoever. His decisions on how to proceed appear to be based solely on how BIG the last check placed in his hand was. (*I wonder how much Susie’s family had to pay him?*)
Folks,THAT is a special kind of whore. And it also happens to be our soon-to-be senior US senator.
A former neighbor of the Tillis family in Mecklenburg County joked one time to me: “You can’t run into Thom and avoid being hit up for some cash. I’ve long believed that if you really want Thom to come over to your house, all you need to do is tape a 50-dollar bill on the front door.”
A lot of folks were shocked over Tillis’s leading role in the legalization of same-sex marriage. I knew it was going to happen. Thom may be a weasel and a scoundrel, but he DOES do what he’s been PAID to do.
Prior to his 2020 escape from Democrat whore Cal Cunningham (no wonder they’ve become such good friends), a bunch of gay activists in DC honored Thom with a high-dollar fundraiser. Thom showed up, pocketed the money, and claimed gay rights was something very important to him. (Notice he made the “very important” statement AFTER he got the last check at that fundraiser. )
Tilli$$$ got major kudos from the DC and Raleigh establishments, as well as the drive-by media, for his “courage” in getting the Respect for Marriage Act out of filibuster territory. Tilli$$$ tried to sell the legislation as respectful toward religious liberty.
Here, a member of the House Freedom Caucus and another really smart guy tell the truth about the bill.
US senator Mike Lee (R-UT) disagrees with our Thommy. Lee circulated a letter pitching an amendment to the legislation that actually protects religious liberty. Ol’ ThomT would not go anywhere near that. (You church people apparently didn’t pony up as much cash as the pink triangle crowd did.)
Well, the US Senate voted 61-39 today to codify same-sex marriage into federal law. Burr came back from his war against the pizza parlor in Nags Head to aid and abet his pal Thommy in one last screwing of the folks back home.
You can actually trace Thom’s bought-and-paid-for reputation back to election night 2010. That was when the GOP had their big day and took over most of Raleigh, including the NC House. A well-placed GOP source told me that — while then-GOP leader Skip Stam and other GOP leaders celebrated backstage at the big Raleigh victory party — some monied Charlotte interests dragged then-nobody Thom Tillis over and into the conversation. The assembled GOPers were reportedly told by the Charlotte moneymen: “Fellas, meet your new leader — Thom Tillis.”
And the rest is history.
So, Thom Tillis has at least a nearly 13-year history of being FOR SALE and / or a wholly-owned subsidiary of powerful special interests. Thom does what these guys tell him, as well as anything else that keeps the cash flowing. We are incidental to it all — an annoyance he has to tolerate every six years now.
So, now he and out-the-door Dickie Burr are on-record as violating the state and national GOP platform.
What happens now? Likely, nothing. And that establishes an interesting precedent. Why bother even having a platform, especially if it’s going to be ignored and violators are not to be punished?
People — so distracted with trying to navigate this economic mess and feed, clothe and shelter their families — will continue to vote for who Raleigh and DC tell them to.
If you think the next two to six years will be better, think about this: ELEVEN GOP senators ran across the aisle to aid the Democrats. That eleven plus the two dozen or so RINOs in the House guarantee that nothing remotely conservative is going to happen on Capitol Hill any time soon. Our only hope — and our nation’s — is that gridlock can be achieved. Nothing accomplished on Capitol Hill is a hell of a lot better than more socialism.
You’d likely have to go back to The Roman Empire to find the last time a great nation fell to pieces thanks to internal corruption and cultural rot.
Pray up. It’s about all we have left. Writing to Tillis is a total waste of time.
Totally Agreement, Tillis has become a large disappointment. I have voted for him now and Mr. Burr. I will no longer vote for Tillis and Glad to see Burr Go ! I used to think Burr was an upstanding man however in the last 3 yrs he has shown his real face,
What an absolute dirtbag. As is all of the NCGOP. This election proved it once and for all.
Curious though: where are all the White pastors in this state, those who vehemently contend ‘we don’t do politics’ (in complete contrast to their Black counterparts where civic engagement is woven into their mission)?
Name one White pastor who has spoken out against this bill, organized its flock to melt down the phones of Tillis (not that it would do much but at least go down w a fight), laid out the Dems’ real agenda of abortion on demand, raised concerns about that vax, spoken out against demonic Mengele-like child butchery disguised as gender affirming care, organized a campaign to stop anti-White CRT in our schools or even on the most basic level organized a GOTV drive?
Or are they too busy admonishing their flock for its supremacist past, sending money to BLM, flinging open their doors to illegals or preaching some perverse social justice where Whites are the root of all evil?
Any priest? Rabbi? Anyone?
Thinking these ‘we don’t do politics’ fools might want to rethink that stance.
Because the chickens have certainly come home to roost. And they have nobody to blame but their weak-assed selves.
It is very hard to find a real Christian church in NC… Lots of places that call themselves churches with demons in the pulpit though and rainbow flags flashing on their led signs beside the roads
The Missouri Synod Lutheran Churches are conservative. They were one of the few denominations which officially opposed the ERA. We have some Missouri Synod Lutheran churches in NC, although most Lutheran churches here are of the social gospel ELCA variety.
Rev. Mark Creech of the Christian Action League (who is a Southern Baptist) was vocally against Tillis on this legislation. Here is one of his syndicated columns on the subject prior to the vote on the bill: https://www.beaufortcountynow.com/post/61658/sen-tillis-likely-to-vigorously-defend-his-support-for-rfma-but-trusted-conservative-christian-voices-say-the-bill-is-very-bad.html
Errr…. I know one white pastor… and I’ll bet there are more and you might find them in the World Methodist factions
I think the conservative Methodists are now called the Global Methodist Church. Happened earlier this year. Was a long time coming, but I believe the new Church will thrive while the liberals they left behind will wither on the vine, at least as a church.
Tillis’ corrupt sell out to the anti-Christian far left is very damaging to the Republican brand in North Carolina. The NCGOP needs to put a whole lot of daylight between itself and dirtbag Thommy. A censure would be a start.
Don’t forget that Tillis is also conniving with Democrats in one of those leftwing “gangs” to screw us on immigration as well.
There is an NCGOP state executive committee meeting coming up on December 17. Anybody got the brass to go for it?
It’s an inside game. When the brass will not demarcate a line between leadership and pervert money bundlers you know they will quash any censure measure.
Its hardly worth going to any Excom meeting without drinking.
And for those of us in Eastern (North) Carolina that’s a long way to get a drink with so many options East of the I-95.
Just as the aforementioned Methodist Church split apart, perhaps it’s time for east Carolina counties to secede from the ncgop and become the ECGOP, and set their own agenda, policies and communications.
We never are going to accomplish anything if we take a defeatist attitude.
Whatley HAS been pushed the excom meetings to the western part of the state instead of rotating them. That should be an issue if he tries to run again.
The EC meeting was supposed to be in Morrisville (just west of Raleigh) and now it’s been changed to Charlotte. Gee, I wonder why that is? Could it be to protect Tillis?
Great honest article , thank you , there are many more paid for issues under Tillis
Tillis simply cannot be trusted. Every Republican I talk with is disgusted with him. He has no respect for the people who voted him into office.
Thom “bought off” Tillis has become a poison to NC conservatives. I pray his poison is not deadly for us true conservatives. His corrupt ways need to be brought to light, in the least he needs to be censored. He is against the ones who elected him. We would have been better off with Cal, we definitely knew what he stood for. No worse than Thom. Very sad for NC conservatives. And Whatley needs to go.
I once called his office to ask him to support legislation that Rep. Fox sponsored a few years ago about lifting tariffs on sugar. His aide told me that he needed to speak with the sugar producing Senators before he would do anything. I said to the aide that he cares more about what 4 Senators from other states think than a NC Congresswoman and a voter thinks. What is most unfortunate is that those whom I know who all claim to be his close friend did not bother to lift a finger to inform him of my thoughts on this.
Sugar is poison for humanity billions of $$$$$$ could be saved in tax dollars going to healthcare costs if Americans did not eat any of that garbage https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM
No Republican in North Carolina gets elected without a massive turnout of Christian voters. That is a hard fact. Tillis knows this— and yet he still kicked the Christian voting base in the teeth and displayed his total disrespect for God’s moral law. He will never live this down.
It’s time to push harder on Voter ID, No Mail-in ballots, NO MACHINE TABULATION or reporting.. We will have invalid elections until this occurs.
Senator Tillis MUST be censured by all 100 counties immediately for his support of the (dis)Respect Marriage Act. This legislation is 100% outside of the GOP Platform. EVERY member of the NCGOP Platform Committee much call publicly for Tillis’s censure. This needs to be done BEFORE and AT the December 17th NCGOP Exec. Committee meeting!
If the votes are there, Whatley can’t stop it.
If Tillis is censured, that means he can NOT attend any GOP events during the censure. How do you keep him from running for Governor, lock him out of 100 counties!
Your point is well-taken Michele, and the wording of that censure should be uniform from one county to the other. How about coming up with something we can present to Executive Committees soon?
Monday news:
Tillis and Sinema have reached a deal on a framework of immigration reform:
PROTECTION FOR 2 MILLION Dreamers……
Voting matters & darn sorry I voted.
But, alas, I’ve pulled my last lever for a R at the national level.
McConnell pushing thru the JCPA Bill, just after the election and lame duck session.
Voting for r’s is a disease and illness and we should learn.
Since, Jesse, Reagan; there aren’t any left nor coming up.
We’ve seen our better days.
Has anyone heard or seen newly elect Budd??
We’ve got to get Voter ID, paper ballots, no mail-in ballots, and NO MACHINE TABULATION. We need to start working on this.
NO, this was NOT “immigration reform”. It was pure AMNESTY for illegal aliens. It did nothing to deal with the “unacommpanied minor” loophole, nothing to deal with chain migration, nothing to deal with tightering the widely abused asylum rules, nothing to clamp down on hiring illegal aliens, nothing to build the wall or otherwise secure the border, etc. It is AMNESTY and a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. Nothing more and nothing less. It is a declaration of war by Tillis against the Republican base and we must fight back and destroy Tillis once and for all. He is nothing but a Democrat enabler.
There is not a dime’s worth of difference between Thom Tillis and Liz Cheney. Heck they might even use the same bathroom and pronouns.
I am sure that Tilli$ was well paid by the Chamber of Corrupt Crony Capitalism for his sellout to the Third World.
Tillis just cannot stop with this far left garbage. Now Traitor Thom is co-sponsoring a bill with Democrat Sinema to give amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for 2 million illegal aliens.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/12/05/tillis-sinema-plan-gives-amnesty-2m-daca-illegal-aliens/
Liberal Thom is just asking to be censured, and he richly deserves it! (but is “he” really Thom’s preferred pronoun?)
Here comes AMNESTY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/05/finally-bipartisan-deal-help-dreamers-is-within-reach/.
Tillis is singlehandedly destroying whatever is left of NCGOP’s ‘commitment to conservative principles.’
And, given Wheatley’s, Moore’s, Berger’s et al reaction: they are completely fine with Tillis’ wrecking ball.
NC GOP party officials need to address these issues with Tillis immediately and try to contain the damage–if possible, to the party. I fear they will not have success, however, because I think Tillis is clearly signaling he is not going to run for re-election to the senate and thus he won’t care. He is in this for himself and himself only. In four years, he will cash out as a Democrat-friendly lobbyist. He is making that abundantly clear.
The only way the NCGOP is going to protect its brand from Tillis is to publicly repudiate Tillis and has left wing moves. Tillis needs to be censured in very strongly worded terms, and he needs to be formally declared personna non grata at all GOP events in North Carolina. We could even go as far as the Wyoming GOP did on Liz Cheney and declare that we no longer recogize him as being a Republican. Thom Tillis is definitely in Liz Cheney territory.
Are we going to allow the entire party to be viewed as sell outs and double crossers because of the actions of Tillis? He is an albatross around the party’s neck.
Called ‘immigration hard liner’ Ted Budd’s office to ask why he has not condemned Tillis’ amnesty push. Staffer’s response: “Budd won’t. He and Thom are friends.”
We.Are.F$CKED.
Can’t participate in any of the party recommendations.
I’ve left that party.
DONE.
No representation of me in any way. Zero. National level is a disaster. McConnell/McCarthy working dem deals during lame session as quickly and ardently as possible. Voting over for 2Y.
NC level rising up to be as detrimental and destructive as DC, in their realm.
Gone are the days of Jesse, Lauch, John East, who aspired to be conservatives and governed, represented every day in office that way. I can’t think of a politician I align with on the republican side.
And expecting the Exec level to censor Thom or country exec cmtees to make any changes; I don’t see it.
I changed my registration to unaffiliated. Want nothing to do with NC GOP or jerk Tom Tillis. He is toxic trash. Ive been a Republican since i first voted for Ronald Regan , Jesse Helms and Jim Martin. I’d vote for Cal Cunningham over him if i had it to do all over again. PURE TRASH.
I understand your sentiment. I don’t like associating with scum either. But, on the other hand, sometimes those decent folks still working in the GOP need a vote here or there as they try to hold the line for having any standards at all. I’ve seen so many instances where honorable Republicans have been one or two votes short on so many important votes. Typically, many of our unaffiliated friends thank us for trying. The thing is, we don’t need a pat on the back. What we do need is another vote from time to time. Just a thought.
So far as I know, Lee County GOP is the only county GOP with “teeth” in its Plan of Organization to award disciplinary sanctions against an elected official; sanctions the party has used effectively in disciplining two elected officials (one a School Board Chairman).
Clearly, Lee GOP benefits from strict enforcement of its party Plan and Platform- Republicans won every contested race in democrat-heavy Lee County during the November 2022 election.
Tillis was formally cautioned by the Lee GOP one year ago for his vote on HR-3684 (Infrastructure Bill) and for his articulated stance on immigration reform. His recent vote on HR 8404 (Respect for Marriage Act) and his collusion with the left to implement amnesty for illegal aliens in the USA soon will bring Senator Tillis into formal disciplinary action by the Lee GOP. He is expected to be noticed about a County Executive Committee disciplinary hearing to take place in February 2023, from which he could be banned from Lee GOP events, resources and support for up to five years- which would include any run for office during that period. Losing all GOP support in even one county could harm any statewide candidate’s potential for being elected.
Perhaps it is time for the NCGOP to adopt these same disciplinary measures so the party might get the attention of its elected officials, re-establish its stature among Republicans, and regain credibility with principled, Judeo-Christian voters.
That’s a great idea, Jim. I hope you will formally propose that to the Plan of Organization Committee, and if not successful there, then on the convention floor. In my county we have a number of formerly active county GOP Executive Committee members who are now registered Unaffiliated due to Republican elected officials who do not act like or vote like Republicans. They gave up in frustration.
Jim, excellent post. Great to see Lee County acting like a real Republican organization with principle and integrity. I encourage all counties to follow your lead. We cannot allow Tillis to destroy everything we’ve worked so hard to accomplish.
Glad you have some balls, sir.
But unless the rest of your estrogen-rich colleagues from red areas like Craven, Carteret, etc. get it together and REVOLT against Whatley, Tillis, Berger and Moore/Gurley, none of your efforts — however on point and fierce — will matter.
North Carolina is a fallen state, thanks to the NCGOP who stand for nothing, conserve even less and spend all of their time stabbing its base in the back.