Comments by Steven P. Rader | Eastern NC Now

Stan there was a good in depth investigation of the illegal ballot harvesting in southeastern North Carolina in that 2018 congressional race by WBTV of Charlotte, which ran their findings in multiple reports. McCrae Dowless, a longtime Democrat ballot harvester went to work for a GOP congressional candidate, but other Democrat ballot harvesters were also active in Columbus County. In Bladen and Robeson Counties, only the Democrats were engaged in ballot harvesting, and more votes were gathered by Democrat ballot harvesting in Robeson County alone than the other two counties combined of all harvesting. Not only that, but in Robeson County, the money trail back to Raleigh Democrats of how that was paid for could be ascertained.

Not only that but in 2016, Democrat ballot harvesting in Bladen County was exposed during the McCrory recount. There was a local race where there was a write-in candidate being backed by the Democrat harvesters, and it was noteworthy that over a hundred ballots were found in the hand-eye recount with that write-in candidate's name being written on ballots in the same handwriting and an odd and distinctive color of ink.

Ballot harvesting is a corrupt practice that is illegal in North Carolina, and should be illegal nationally. Indeed there should be very severe criminal penalties for those who engage in it.

Commented: Tuesday, December 24th, 2024 @ 12:33 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I suspect we will see a lot more Democrats with common sense fleeing the woke mind virus that dominates their party.

Commented: Monday, December 23rd, 2024 @ 1:13 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Title IX was adopted by Congress. Biden was way out of line attempting to fundamentally change it by executive fiat. All aspects of the Biden distortion of Title IX need to be prevented from taking effect.

Commented: Sunday, December 22nd, 2024 @ 1:36 pm By: Steven P. Rader

There were two people close to what was going on in the medical field with Obamacare whose comments I heard that bear on how Obamacare changed medicine.

One was my own primary care physcian here in Washington, when I expressed surprise that he and his partners had sold their practice to Vidant. He explained that Obamacare created a bureaucratic nightmare for doctors in its regulations that was going to be costly and timeconsuming for them if they stayed independent but by selling to Vidant, that would be Vidant's headache, not theirs. The other thing they thought about when Vidant approached them with an offer to buy their practice was that right then their practice had a value on the market but where the government was going on healthcare, it might not in the future. So they pocketed the value of their practice and became salaried employees of Vidant with the same annual income as when they were independent. That process seems to have been repeated many times over all around the country.

THe other comment had to do with an international organization I was working for. At our annual interenational retreat in Washington, DC. After Obamacare passed, one of the speakers was the organization's health insurance consultant who negotitated our group health insurance provisions with insurance companies. He told us that the changes with Obamacare would mean a choice. If we kept all the coverage we had, it would cost more, and if we kept the rates we had, we would have less coverage. This was because under OBamacare, everyong in all group health plans was put in one big pool, and the health profile of that pool was worse than the health profile of our organization's own employyees. Insurance rates for group plans were based on health profiles of the people to be insured. He also said some insurance companies were getting out of the health care field entirely due to Obamacare, and less competition would also push prices up and coverage down. He did tell us the changes for group health were significant but not as severe as the changes for individual health insurance would be.

Commented: Friday, December 13th, 2024 @ 11:11 am By: Steven P. Rader

Having spent decades practicing criminal law, it is clear to me that this was a textbook case of both self defense and even more so defense of others. Alan Dershowitz, a very renowned legal expert, is absolute correct that this case never should have been brought against Penny. The testimony of the other passengers, many of them minorities and including children and the elderly, that they were in fear of their lives from Jordan Neely was clear cut. ONe elderly black woman at the end of her testimony turned to Penny and said "Thank you". Neely made the explicite threat in so many words to kill the passengers and began acting aggressively toward them. Penny was fully justified under the doctrine of defense of others as well as self defense to neutralize the threat. Since Neely was breathing on his own and had a heartbeat when help arrived it is a real stretch to say Penny "killed him".

Those of the left these days want the rights of self defense and defense of others to go away, but they are critical to our system of justice.

Commented: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 @ 7:31 pm By: Steven P. Rader

For centuries in Anglo-Saxon criminal law, a right of self defense and a right of defense of others have been recognized. Both of these applied to Daniel Penny and it is a horrible miscarriage of justice that he was charged over this incident. That is particularly true since the psycho who attacked the passengers was breathing and had a heartbeat when the rescue squad arrived.

This is racial politics by Alvin Bragg. There was a very similar case in Manhattan not long before where a black man armed with a gun threatened a car load of subway riders. Another black man acted the Good Samaratan then, got the gun away from the attacker and shot him dead with it. He was not charged with anything.

There is clearly a racial double standard of "justice" in Manhattan courts, just as there is a two tier justice system there based on politics.

Commented: Saturday, December 7th, 2024 @ 2:57 pm By: Steven P. Rader

Truitt was a big disappointment, the second weak DPI superintendant from the GOP in a row, but now we have something much worse, a radical extreme leftist Democrat in that position, Mo Green. God help our NC education system.

Commented: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2024 @ 10:17 am By: Steven P. Rader

The failure to insist on those identifying numbers that are required by federal law on voter registrations makes the system very vulnerable to fraud. That is because those numbers make it easy to identify people who register more than one, out of state registrants, fictious registrants, fake overseas registrants, and others.

I saw a list of over twenty people who a week ago had been identified as voting twice, but without those id numbers there were probably a lot more than that. In Beaufort County, one person was caught trying to vote on election day after already voting during early registration and another cast two mail-in ballots. Neither of those even appeared on that statewide list of people who voted more than once so it is probably just scratching the surface.

We have a very good elections office here in Beaufort County, but the operation at the state level leaves a lot to be desired, and so do many counties.

Commented: Wednesday, November 27th, 2024 @ 4:02 pm By: Steven P. Rader

When I served in the Jim Martin administration as General Counsel of what is now the Department of Health and Human services (it had a different name then), we had a number of policy making commissions housed under our department like the NC Social Services Commission, NC CHild Day Care Commission, and NC Mental Health Commission. All of those commissions gave a full and timely notice of their meetings. Indeed each had a list of people who requested copies of meeting notices and agendas by mail, and those were provided. For any public body transparency is important, and notices are often also required by law.

Commented: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 @ 8:43 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The only one of the two whose votes can be determined was a straight ticket Democrat voter, including Kamala Harris. That is known because in absentee voting, the ballot can be extracted. It was and the votes read off in the public meeting so they could be subtracted from the vote count. The other voter was stopped before his second vote was cast, so his first ballot was not extracted and thus his vote is unknown.

Commented: Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 @ 6:22 pm By: Steven P. Rader

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stopped the steal in that state, blocking Democrat scheming to reverse the US Senate election there. After Democrat election officials in several counties started counting invalid ballots in brazen disregard of previous court rulings, the Democrat majority Supreme Court put a stop to it when the Republican National Committee filed an emergency lawsuit. At least some Democrats still believe in democracy it seems.

One concern I have heard in multiple counties in North Carolina is that county elections boards counted provisional ballots prior to the canvas rather than at the canvas as has normally been done, often leaving GOP party observers flatfooted to be present because of poor notice of the unexpected meetings. The concern is that in some of the more partisan counties, thumbs may have been put on the scales for Democrat provisionals and against Republican provisionals. The lack of transparency in these early meetings on provisinal ballots has raised questions in some counties. In one county, a Republican activist who was working on their election integrity team went to the Board of Elections for another purpose and to their shock and dismay found them counting provisional ballots when no notice of that meeting had been given.

Commented: Monday, November 18th, 2024 @ 5:23 pm By: Steven P. Rader

You can also send Budd a message on his website urging him to vote for Rick Scott, which is what I have done.

Commented: Tuesday, November 12th, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By: Steven P. Rader

No, Bob, I am talking about Robinson's REAL baggage, NOT the fabrications of the dishonest Democrat media. Those are poor business management of both a day care and Balanced Nutrition, and his history of bankruptcies, not paying taxes, and worthless checks. To innoculate on that, he could have come out early and told them himself, talk about going through tough times, and how it made him a better man today. He should have also paid the holders of those checks. Voters would have forgiven that, and it would have taken the issue away from Stein. He failed to do that. He also needed to bring in some experts to get all the problems at Balanced Nutrition fixed before the campaign got going. He could have preempted most of what Stein threw at him but he failed to do it. Because he failed to do it, and Stein had been hammering him with it, the fabrications of the partisan Democrat media resonated a lot more than they should have. His campaign staff were totally incompetent.

What mattered in the DPI race was that we get our education system back to common sense and away from the woke mind virus. Morrow would have done that, while Green just takes us deeper into the pit.

Commented: Monday, November 11th, 2024 @ 9:46 am By: Steven P. Rader

The Arizona court did the right thing on this one and stood by the election law as written. The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves for trying to pull this stunt.

Commented: Monday, November 11th, 2024 @ 8:08 am By: Steven P. Rader

When I ran for public office, if any of my campaign workers had made these sorts of threats, they would immediately have been removed from any campaign activities. In those days, I think most Democrat candidates would have done the same. Clearly, the Democrats of today operate by a different and lower standard and that is bad for society

Commented: Saturday, November 2nd, 2024 @ 9:11 am By: Steven P. Rader

Fortunately, we in North Carolina have never had unattended ballot drop boxes. In fact, our legislature has tightened the law on who the board of elections can receive ballots from to help stop ballot harvesting.

It sounds like it is safer for those voting by mail in states with unattended ballot drop boxes to put a stamp on their ballot instead of putting it in one of those drop boxes. ONe has to weigh the risk of it getting lost in the mail aganst some homeless person or Hamas supporter burning the ballot drop box.

Commented: Thursday, October 31st, 2024 @ 12:48 pm By: Steven P. Rader

I have been out to early voting every day at the Beaufort County Board of Elections helping at the GOP table, and everything seems to be running like clockwork here, with none of the problems that are obviously impacting Pennsylvania. The only glitch was that the Democrats were handing out an illegal sample ballot that did not reveal who paid for it. Once that was reported to election authorities, it was quickly taken care of.

Commented: Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By: Steven P. Rader