Wake County Commissioner Tony Gurley placed second in the GOP primary for Lt. Governor, with 25 percent of the vote. The winner was Dan Forest, with 33 percent. But, since neither candidate received the required 40 percent for an outright win, a runoff is the next step. On his Facebook page, Gurley says he will call for the runoff. The winner of the runoff will face Democratic nominee Linda Coleman, who defeated Eric Mansfield.
The websites for the candidates are linked below.
Read full article » No Comments »WRAL has a good synopsis of the legislative incumbents who appear to have lost bids for re-election in yesterday’s primary. Losers include Democratic Rep. Jim Crawford, who was part of a race I profiled for Carolina Journal a couple of weeks ago. Crawford was one of five House Democrats who sided with Republicans on the state budget. Anther, William Brisson, won his race.
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Former U.S. Attorney George Holding defeated opponents Paul Coble and Bill Randall for the GOP nomination for the 13th district seat in Congress. The question is, who will the Democrats field against Holding?
Read full article » No Comments »This year, the redrawn 13th Congressional District is heavily Republican, encompassing nine counties that include parts of Wake and Durham. The only Democratic candidate, Bernard Holliday, is not considered a threat. Another candidate on the Democratic ballot, Charles Malone, dropped out of the race due to health reasons, although he won his party’s nomination Tuesday. Malone told The Associated Press recently that if he was the top vote-getter in the primary, he would leave it to the Democratic Party to appoint a replacement.
Miller, who was drawn into the new district, chose not to run again.
The News & Observer‘s editorial writers, in unsigned institutional editorials and in signed columns, have scoffed at the need for voter photo ID law in North Carolina, and have joined Democrats and liberals in imputing racist motives to anyone suggesting they’re needed. Maybe they should read the newspaper sometime:
Read full article » No Comments »Thousands of foreign citizens — particularly in South Florida — might be registered to vote in Florida and could have unlawfully cast ballots in previous elections.
The potential problem is largest in Florida’s largest county: Miami-Dade, where the elections supervisor is examining 2,000 potentially unlawful voters, WFOR-CBS?4 News reported Tuesday. Broward is examining 260 suspected foreign voters. One suspected noncitizen voter has been registered for about 40 years, CBS?4 found.
Over the past year, the Florida Division of Elections has begun identifying potential foreigners on the rolls in coordination with the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Division of Elections spokesman Chris Cate told The Miami Herald. He said the state has forwarded the names to county elections supervisors, who are in charge of the rolls.
“There will be more names,” Cate said.
For those who like to say that support for conservative polices has waned since 2010, think again. Read about it here. From AP:
To say Orange County is out of the mainstream is being kind.
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The amendment to safeguard traditional marriage passed by a mile — 61 to 39 percent. Take a look at the color-coded election-results map to see just how far to the Left the four Triangle counties really are. Several days ago, a true-believing Leftist told me he doesn’t know anyone who supports the amendment. When I told him he is far, far, far to the left of most North Carolinians on this issue, he scoffed at me. The election returns show the gulf that exists between the ultra-liberal Triangle and mainstream North Carolina.
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