Campaigns

The Constitutional Freedom Alliance opened its gathering of representatives from state Tea Party movement groups yesterday with a video produced to answer the question recently raised by Democratic Congressman Bob Etheridge: “Who are you?” The answer was a resounding, “We are the People of the United States” and we want to restore the Constitution....
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Vice President Joe “Potty Mouth” Biden was in Chapel Hill yesterday to raise money for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. At one event in the exclusive Carolina Inn, people paid $500 to eat hors d’oeuvres of crab crostini and spinach and goat cheese profiteroles. For those who pay a little less for food,...
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Young, and not-so-young, libertarians, conservatives and independent political activists and candidates are spending their summer preparing for the 2010 and 2012 campaigns. Young Americans for Liberty Boot Camp Young Americans for Liberty is holding a North Carolina Campaign Boot Camp July 15 to 19 in Durham. About 40 students will get a full weekend...
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North Carolina native R. Lee Wrights, a former Libertarian Party national vice chair and the editor and co-founder of Liberty for All online magazine, has announced he’s forming an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for a possible bid to seek the Libertarian nomination for president in 2012. “The Libertarian Party faces a critical...
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In what may be a first for North Carolina politics, the first debate of the 2010 U.S. Senate election will include all ballot qualified candidates. The N.C. Bar Association is sponsoring a debate in Wilmington tomorrow which will include Libertarian Mike Beitler, incumbent Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Elaine Marshall. News 14 Carolina will...
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From The Atlantic: “For the first time in recent history, the lobbying, grassroots and advertising budget of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has surpassed the spending of BOTH the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee.”
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That’s a good question, I’m glad you asked. Rhys M. Blavier asks this question in an article on Liberty for All.  He concludes with a positive rephrase of the oft cited Ronald Reagan quote. “Government is not the solution. It is the problem — which we must learn to solve.” I like his rephrase...
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I’m encouraged to read another reporter who gets it. “If you follow the money, you find that it follows power,” writes Benjamin Niolet in today’s News & Observer (Office holders rake in the donations – Politics – NewsObserver.com.) The Democrat-Republican political cartel may be a greater threat to liberty than any terrorist or foreign...
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Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. – Thomas Jefferson Mr. Jefferson, I am sorry to report we’re already there. Abuse of power is now the way things...
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Big news from Dr. Mike Munger, Duke political science department head and former Libertarian candidate for N.C. governor. “RALEIGH — Dr. Michael Munger, Chair of Political Science at Duke and former (2008) candidate for North Carolina Governor, made an important announcement today. “After thinking it over, and talking to my wife and family, I...
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