Who to vote FOR: statewide edition
Here is a list of candidates we think (AS OF NOW) deserve your vote. Things CAN change. Early voting is underway, but there is still plenty of time until the polls close on Election Night. (An upcoming article will address the races in our neck of the woods.) So, here we go …
U.S. Senate. There is a long list of candidates on the Republican side. Cherie Beasley is going to get the Democrat nod. Only four on the GOP side have a realistic chance at their party’s nomination: Ted Budd, Mark Walker, Pat McCrory, and Marjorie Eastman.
Mark Walker’s cameo appearance in the FBI report released as part of the Robin Hayes investigation disqualifies him from getting any support from us. The fact that he sought, in exchange for big cash, to get a law-abiding state employee fired for following the rules and doing her job is disturbing to say the least.
Pat McCrory is disqualified from getting our support thanks to his one term as governor and an awful lot of his out-of-office antics.
Marjorie Eastman is intriguing, but we don’t know enough about her to make an informed decision about her. She’s a long-shot for the nomination, but we hope she pops up again somewhere as a candidate. Eastman, from what we can tell, is the kind of person you want to see in a leadership role. Perhaps, starting smaller and more local might bring more success for her.
That leaves Ted Budd. Yes, he has been in Washington. But he’s been hanging with Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and the rest of The Freedom Caucus. (That is a good thing.) His voting record has been pretty good. His role as a business owner surely helps to keep him grounded in the real world outside the DC beltway.
Though, I do remember Richard Burr being pretty good in the House, but going to hell in a hand basket when he got to the Senate.
Some people have complained about Budd not taking part in debates. Jesse Helms did ONE in his entire 30 year career in the Senate. *He wasn’t so bad, now was he?* Those televised debates offer little to no meaningful assistance to voters or the top tier candidates in a race. They are merely opportunities for at least one of the frontrunners to slip up and get roasted by the media.
Right now, our votes are going to Ted Budd. Perhaps yours should too.
JUDGES. We have three seats to vote on — two on the Court of Appeals, and one on the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court race, Trey Allen is a place-holder, stalking-horse, stooge, front, etc. for the crowd attempting the hostile takeover of our state courts.
The takeover crowd is most scared of Judge April Wood. They slipped Victoria Prince into this race to split the female vote with Wood. Allen is being billed as a conservative judge. How can you honestly do that when the alleged “conservative judge” has never issued ANY rulings or opinions (or even sat on the bench in a black robe while court was in session)?
Supreme Court incumbents Paul Newby and Phil “Baby Berger” Berger, Jr. have been running around the countryside bad-mouthing Wood as fast and as hard as they can (possibly violating judicial ethics standards). April Wood has a proven track record as a conservative jurist. Wood can’t be bought or bossed around. To them, there is a real good chance one of the other two in the race CAN BE.
Say no the special interests and influence peddlers in Raleigh. Vote April Wood for Supreme Court.
In the Court of Appeals races, the ‘hostile takeover” crowd is trying to buy two seats. They are backing Michael Stading and Beth Freshwater Smith. Donna Stround has been on the court and has done a pretty decent job. Vote FOR Donna Stroud.
The other race, Stading v. Allen is more of a head-scratcher. Stading is a puppet for the Raleigh special interests. But Allen has a history as part of the Pat McCrory entourage. In fact, he earned an appointment to the state Industrial Commission under Pat. Both candidates are waving the ‘conservative’ flag.
So far, Allen appears — in our book — to be ahead of Stading by a nose. As of now, we advise either a reluctant vote for Allen, or leaving this one BLANK.
The polls for these primary races close for good in the end of May. The winners of these races move on to the November ballot.
Actually Senator Helms did at least two debates in 1984 against Jim Hunt. He won 52-48.
Ahhhh. The good ole days…. Helms & Hunt. Those are two all star politicians…they knew how to win. Helms never lost an election ….ever ….and Hunt won every time except when he went against Helms. Jesse Helms elected 6 times to the US Senate and James B. Hunt elected 4 times as Governor and once as Lt Gov. Everyone we have out there these days are lightweights compared to those two.
Can not vote for Stroud. Ever. For anything. She represented me during divorce and was a terrible advisor and attorney. During mediation, she sat there like a bump on a log and did not advise me or caution me about decisions. She got paid for nothing.
If Ted Budd wins the primary, which it appears that he will, we lose the seat in November. At least he’s not as bad as Bo Hines (who is endorsed by President Trump. LOL)
So why will Budd lose in Nov? and why would someone else have a better chance ? and if so WHO?
Why a definite loss? GOPe, Establishment, gonna vote Dem? We don’t support ‘their’ candidate(s), so they gonna turncoat and NOT support Budd?
Yes, Trump should have picked someone like Moss or Harper, neither who’ve been corrupted by DC. Budd hasn’t even gotten back to Washington yet and already he’s acting like “I don’t have time for you” to the very grassroots activists that have been supporting him. Friend of mine told me the other day that Budd had been over to Gates county where he posed in a pic with local supporters, the Gates county GOP Chairman AND the Democrat Sheriff of Gates county. Then his Facebook manager crops everyone out of the pic except Budd and the Dem Sheriff.
The polls show that Budd beats Beasley by 7 points, Walker beats her by 5, and McCrory loses to her by 2. Budd is our strongest candidate in November. McCrory is our least electable.
I would hold my nose for Walker, in spite of his endorsement by Paul Ryan, but I would have to leave the ballot blank if it were McCrory.
Hate to say it but EVERYONE Meadows Convinced Trump to endorse in NC are complete and total morons up to and including Maddi ( “I like to rub my junk in my cousin’s face”) Cawthorn. Budd is just Bleh… no substance there at all, but maybe he will be better than McCrory if he is able to come close to beating Beasley in November. While there is going to be an incredibly strong RED Wave throughout the country come November. Because of the inept NGOP and petty grassroots activists who believe they know all because they have knocked on a door or two and have taken a selfie with someone elected but in reality are as clueless as most of the folks running and just as harmful to the conservative movement as AOC & Co are to progressives. The endorsements of Budd, Hines, and little Maddi C may get them on the ballot in November but they will also cost us two Congressional Seats and a US Senate seat all because NC cannot seem to find anything better that young punk deviants, dense daddy’s boys, and two bit kiss asses with no judicial experience. The good ole boys in NC are about to cost the state a lot! A Whole Lot. Too bad the yay whoos who are beating the party drum are too dense to notices or too cowardly to speak up. How could one expect anything better when the state party continues to allow convicted pervert Harvey West to serve in a leadership role within the state NCGOP. Maybe folks will wake up and see Newby, Baby Berger, Meadows, Whatley, and their entire ilk for the frauds and opportunist they all are. April Wood is a superb judge and she should whip the floor with Trey. Donna is the first female chief judge of the Court of Appeals (and Republican). Her rulings at a judge show her conservative credentials. Hopefully Michele Woodhouse will beat the male wankers she is running against the 11th districts she runs circles around them and will do the people of the 11th proud in DC. Lets hope Renee Ellmers is successful in wining the 13th primary. While Renee has her critics I encourage folks to actually look at her record from when she served in Congress. She actually had one of the most conservative voting records of any members of Congress while she was there. Folks would know that too if they were not more concerned with spreading rumors vs. actually learning for themselves what Renee accomplished for her district when serving in the US Congress. Maybe eventually the republican faithful will get their collective heads out of the south end of a donkey and get back to actually thinking for themselves vs listening to wankers with an R next to their name who are in reality JUST A BAD as the Democrats they rail against. Dirty is Dirty regardless of party and one party does not have exclusive rights on dirt over the other. Both are Disgustingly Filthy!
Your liking Renee Ellmers sort of shows why you do not like Ted Budd. Ellmers relationship with RINO Kevin McCarthy was likely a big factor in her going off the reservation. Conservatives need to demand a fruit basket turnover of our GOP “leadership” in both Congress and the General Assembly.
Ted Budd is our most conservative choice in the Senate race AND our most electable in November. McCrory is the least conservative and the least electable.
This is the excuse people use to stick us with the same old same old.
Researching Budd has a great pro life record – https://cqrcengage.com/nrlc/file/o5px0Tnez42/117th%20Scorecard%20House%209.30.2021.pdf
Also Dan Bongino ranks him as a top 10 conservative before Trump endorsed him. https://bongino.com/these-are-the-most-and-least-conservative-members-of-congress
Budd voted FOR the Ukraine boondoggle. Hard pass. Vote for Eastman, who at the very least is an outsider. Ya’ll do want change, eh? Or just a platform to bitch about it.
PS. Everyone I LOATHE is going after Cawthorn. I could two Fs what he did as a kid; he voted the way I would vote. Wake up.