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Nice call Matt!

Gosh — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:38:56 -0400

Submitted by MattM on August 26, 2008 - 4:10pm.

Larry Kissell got lucky back in '06, a lot of Hayes supporters stayed home figuring he already had it locked up. They'll be out this year. Kissell will have to settle back into his real job and stop pretending like he can be a Congressman.

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Whoops, sorry to bump. Was looking for Matt's latest supporting that NFL guy, or maybe it was the DA that also passed.

A randomly selected housewife in the phonebook would be a better representative than Kissell.

Does the NRCC not have a phonebook?

Re: Ethics law follows delegates

unbiased — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:44:10 -0400

"It gets to be ubsurd, I dont mind paying for breakfast, or paying for twice what it is worth, but you have to wonder why?"

Mr. Blue, you have to wonder why?? Are you kidding?? You don't understand why it is wrong for a person in your position to receive "anything of value" from a person or entity that has issues before you to decide? That says to me that you are in your position simply to receive the "perks" and have no interest in doing the things you politicians always espouse, "doing the work of the people."

Bull. You politicians make me sick.

Re: Ethics

bnartist — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:44:45 -0400

Mr Terrell, You certified on February 7, 2008 that your committee intends to neither receive nor expend more than $3,000 yet you are soliciting donations of up to $4,000 on your various websites. You are also soliciting donations on Facebook and on other sites eg:

I really need to get off to a good start for the 3rd Campaign Finance Quarter. Please send what you can. Let’s defeat Dan Blue in November. If you would like to donate, please send donations to:

You have filed no campaign reports since February 7, 2008 yet you persist in soliciting funds:

No donation is too small. Little is much when the Lord is in it! I need your vote , support and your prayers. Spread the WORD! Thanks Paul

You either have very little support or you are not properly reporting the contributions you have received or the expenditures you have made.

Next you'll be telling us Dan Blue is a liar because he's not actually blue.

Re: Ethics law follows delegates

tangoz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:37:45 -0400

What's wrong Dan, can't a wealthy lawyer like you afford breakfast? I see that you went to the Democratic National Convention. I assume you still pulled in all of your endorsements even though were not in town for some of them.

Are you going to cut taxes for 95% of us like Obama is? Are you going to get universal healthcare passed in NC like Obama is nationally? Or better yet, are you going to clean up corruption in the NC Democratic party like Palin did in the Alaska republican Party?

What was that Dan? No, No, and No? Well you have had 25 years to do the right thing. And all you have managed is a Mental healthcare boondoggle, a 21.4 billion dollar budget with billions in additional borrowing, and a probation system that has gotten people killed.

Paul Terrell III
http:.//terrellforhouse33.blogspot.com

Chicago in 1968

gercohen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:33:55 -0400

I was a McCarthy volunteer with the Connecticut delegation in Chicago in 1968 (a history teacher at my high school was a delegate and invited students out to the convention, a bunch of us brought sleeping bags and shared a room and I handed out leaflets for Gene.) If you went out the front door of the Congress Pick Hotel you got teargassed. I came to Chapel Hill as a freshman three weeks later. By the way, I am on the Rules Committee, not Platform.

Re: As for dinner...

tangoz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:58:46 -0400

Would that be a $60 cheeseburger purchased over in Europe Governor?

Paul Terrell III
http:terrellforhouse33.blogspot.com

Re: McCaskill sold on Hagan

FFC1304 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:20:52 -0400

yawn, Claire McCaskill is a joke of a democrackkk...

Re: The latest "line" on Edwards

FFC1304 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:18:17 -0400

ROFLMAO!!!

Re: The latest "line" on Edwards

Isaac136 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:23:34 -0400

You guys are terrible. Shame, shame, shame on you.

Re: As for dinner...

really — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:01:39 -0400

uhm. isn't the expression "for" lunch...

Re: No spotlight for North Carolina

bkrueger — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:23:09 -0400

Glad I could make you happy. I've fixed the post.

Re: Obama supporters followed different paths

AwakeReader — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:36:28 -0400

If a white guy with Obama's experience had tried to run aginst Clinton we would never have heard of him. Biden and Dod who do have real experience each got only a tiny number of votes in the primary. As a candidate for President Obama is totally a creation of the liberal big media. The numbers show Obama has gotten more and better coverage in the big media.

What does it tell us about voters when they support Obama because he is black? Is that different from voters who don't support Obama because he is black?

Re: No spotlight for North Carolina

fuzzybunny — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:07:24 -0400

to announce it's vote for Barack Obama

I know I like to pick on RTB for this sort of thing, but it's far more rewarding to catch the editor.

Re: Kansas governor pitches for Hagan

MattM — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:51:19 -0400

Kay Hagan's an opportunist. She got her General Assembly seat thanks to her family connections, decided to not run for the Senate until backed by the DSCC when Jim Neal entered the race. How ironic the supposed party of diversity and equal rights for everyone didn't want a gay man running for office.

Re: Easley enjoying the party

MattM — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:48:09 -0400

There hasn't been enough exploration done off the coast of NC to know just how much there is. At least Pat McCrory is actively in support of new solutions and not the same old recycled soundbites handed down from Hunt to Easley to Perdue.