NC Repubilcan Party Addressing Rumors | Eastern North Carolina Now

Press Release:

    As a former news reporter, I am embarrassed by how the press fell hook, line and sinker for a court expansion crisis that was speculated by Democrats, rumored by Democrats, and fed by Democrats.

    Some of the otherwise reputable news organizations have added to this rumor mill-- with no evidence, no written bill, no Republican endorsement, and no off-the-record background comments that it was possibly coming. The unfair and unrealistic notion that it is our job to answer every hair-brained paranoid scheme that the Democrats dream up, again without any proof, evidence, or confirmation, is absolutely ridiculous.

    Since you have applied a new standard to our Party and our members-- that we have to deny everything that is not going to happen, here we go:

• We are not outlawing the color blue.
• We are not selling the naming right to the General Assembly to Pepsi, or the Governor's Mansion to Lowes.
• We are not going to shut down the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as punishment for their crazy liberal faculty.
• We are not requiring High School students to read: The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater, Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, or The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek.
• We are not requiring all school meals to include, bacon, beef or other meat products.
• We are not going to make voter fraud a capital offense...yet.

    If any of your stories read that "Republicans back off court expansion," you will further be lying to your readers because you will have accused us of doing something that we were never doing, and by default or purpose, then credit these far-left-outfits with stopping something that was never going to happen.

    I respect the work of our political press, as I was a part of it for many years. Your work during the elections was hard, tough and mostly commendable. Some of you did not get this wrong. But many of you did, by engaging in rumor filled propaganda with no concrete or real reporting, and a ridiculous standard that no matter how we tried to refute this, it was never enough.

• Contact: Dallas Woodhouse
•     communications@ncgop