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I think a lot of local conservatives were supporting Folwell, and Robinson has the support but not the intensity of support that Folwell would have had. Robinson is great on the range of issues he has been working on, not liberal on anything I know of, but has not engaged on quite a few issues that conservatives care about. I think the more he engages on a wider range of issues, the greater intensity of support he will have.
Commented: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 @ 11:28 am
By: Conservative Voter
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And yet he gets hardly a mention in the BO. Why is that?
Commented: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 @ 10:14 am
By: Big Bob
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Policy positions on issues are always more important than a candidate's personality or personal life. I voted for and contributed to Dale Folwell in the primary. In the general election, "end the woke curriculum in the public schools" Mark Robinson is, by far, the better choice over "boys in girls locker rooms, restrooms, and sports teams" Josh Stein.
Commented: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 @ 9:20 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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So your voting for I took my wife for an abortion Mark? Hard to believe she couldn't keep her legs closed.
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 8:47 pm
By: Big Bob
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HR- the gang of 5 are the duly elected commissions who happen to not agree with you very often. At times you make good points but you're a lousy politician. The 5 clearly dislike you and I don't blame them.
At some point you have to ask, what's the point? To do right by the people you serve, or just be a cranky old guy who manages to get re-elected but gets nothing done? You could be good at what you do. It's not too late.
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 8:58 pm
By: Big Bob
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Not today's NC Democrats, Bob. The three running statewide I mentioned earlier are as far left as any Democrat in America. Yes, it was different when we had NC Democrats like Senator B. Everett Jordan, Senator Sam Ervin, Governor Dan Moore, Lt. Govenor Jimmy Green, Congressman L. H. Fountain, State Senator Vernon White, State Senator Julian Allsbrook, and others like them, but all of them are gone and there are no longer others like them in today's leftwing NC Democrat Party. That was then, but his is now. The old conservative Democrats and business Democrats voted with their feet years ago, the latter now often becoming Chamber of Commerce Republicans.
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 7:27 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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Just pointing out that a NC democrat would be a republican in many other states. Not Mississippi, but many others. Most on the BO are slightly right of Hitler so I get it that RC appears to be “flora the red” in a suit
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 3:31 pm
By: Big Bob
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NC Democrats went pretty far to the left decades ago with elected officials like Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt, but nothing like their ultra-liberal canddiates today. You are clueless, Bob, or in denial.
The Democrat statewide ticket this years is really far to the left. For Superintendand of Public Insttuction their nominee was once the head of the far left Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the money bags for left and far-left causes in North Carolina. For Commissioner of Labor their candidate was a leader of the BLM/ANTIFA riots in Charlotte, and there is a photo of him leading a mob confronting a line of police with his fist in the air, no shirt, and his pants pulled half way down his ass exposing his underware (jailhouse style). The Democrat candidate for Supreme Court has never worked in a law firm or public legal offfice such as a prosecutor, and her only legal experience before being appointed by Cooper as a judge was being a lawyer for the radical far left Southern Coalition for Social Justice out of Durham. The NC Democrats are giving Vladimir Lenin a run for his money in terms of how far to the left they are.
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 10:40 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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Big Bob, You continue to convince me that you are not connected to reality. You are not woke, you are blind.
Commented: Monday, August 5th, 2024 @ 9:05 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Nobody elected to anything in NC, is ultra liberal.
Commented: Sunday, August 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 pm
By: Big Bob
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A liberal political agenda of "woke" from the ultra liberal mostly Roy Cooper appointed state board of educaiton and from DPI is a big factor driving parents to take their children out of public schools and place them in private schools or home school. A poll last year by the Locke Foundation found that 71% of North Carolina parents are concerned about political indoctrination of their children in the public schools. Local school systems best approach to retain students is to take firm control of curriculum, tell the wokesters in Raleigh to get stuffed, eliminate the woke while bringing back quality. That, in addition to being firm on discipline, would create public schools that parents want to send their children to.
Commented: Sunday, August 4th, 2024 @ 12:03 pm
By: Steven P. Rader
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