Comments by Raphael Semmes | Eastern North Carolina Now

This article ignores a major issue, and that is illegal immigration. Rouzer was a K Street lobbyist in Washington, DC, another thing overlooked in the article, and in that capacity, Rouzer lobbied for amnesty for illegal aliens. That is why ALIPAC has endorsed White.

We do not need beltway insiders who have been K Street lobbyists like Rouzer and Taylor Griffin representing us in Congress, as they would be more oriented to the beltway elite than the voters back home.

Commented: Sunday, April 20th, 2014 @ 2:05 pm By: Raphael Semmes

Why do we have one in Spanish but not German, French, Russian, Chinese, etc? Why do we get such a waste of taxpayers money on pandering out of the McCrory administration? Is it because this particular Deputy Secretary is a liberal Democrat who has been both a Democrat political appointee and a Democrat political contributor? Why are such people holding high office in a Republican administration?

This thread is one of the best examinations of this problem in the McCrory administration that I have seen:

www.talkingaboutpolitics.com

Commented: Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 @ 11:56 am By: Raphael Semmes

This is just part of Thom Tillis' War on Conservatives.

Part of Tillis' War on Conservatives has been on legislation, watering down some things like the Voter ID bill, blocking others like the repeal of the renewable energy mandate, and promoting liberal ideas like gutting the state e-Verify laws on illegal aliens and trying to allow drivers licenses for illegal aliens. Tillis' prostituting himself to special interests that he hoped would contribute to his Senate campaign has been part of his legislative liberalism. Tillis is king of ''pay for play'' and if anyone in the general assembly should be opposed for ethics reasons, it should be Tillis.

The other side of Tillis' War on Conservatives has been against conservative legislators. In 2012, he used control of the the House redistricting process to eviscerate the districts of conservative legislators Glen Bradley and Bill Cook. Even though, he is not even going to be in the legislature in 2015, Tillis is busy trying to primary conservatives. Angry with conservative Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus), Tillis got the vice chairman of the Mecklenburg County GOP to resign and move to Cabarrus to primary Pittman. That carpetbagger move got so much negative play that it fell apart. Now, Tillis has found a flunky to run against conservative Rep. Robert Brawley.

What type of legislator does Tillis like? We just have to remember our own House district in 2012, when Tillis backed recently re-registered former liberal Democrat legislator Arthur Williams for that seat. Tillis called Walter Jones to get an endorsement for him and also made fundraising calls for Williams.

Tillis likes the ideas of electing liberals and he opposes conservatives. Tillis clearly would make a very crappy US Senator.

We also need to remember where Tillis himself came from. Tillis was recruited by the corrupt power tandem of Jim Black (the real power) and Richard Morgan (lap puppy) to run against conservative Rep. John Rhodes. Morgan, the ''Republican'' member of that pair, was a self-professed moderate and wanted to eliminate Rhodes who was calling too much attention to the corrupt dealings of he and Black. Tillis was their flunky who agreed to primary Rhodes. He is now doing the same to conservatives he perceives as inconvenient to his own ambitions.

Conservatives need to work hard to be sure that Tillis is NOT our Senate nominee in 2014. Tillis would be a huge disaster as a US Senator, probably more so than even Hagan has been.

Commented: Monday, December 9th, 2013 @ 6:15 pm By: Raphael Semmes

Here is more on the disaster in the 8th CD runoff: dailyhaymaker.com

Commented: Thursday, July 19th, 2012 @ 2:41 pm By: Raphael Semmes

A liberal academic and a democrat machine hack; why does Locke publish such garbage, and further, why do you publish it?

What absence of a runoff does is allow one moderate in a race with several conservatives to win even though they are totally unrepresentative of the electorate. Locke has been coming up with some weird ideas lately. I wonder if someone has slipped something in the water there.

Commented: Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 @ 1:36 pm By: Raphael Semmes

Stan, why don't you run against Jones in the Congressional primary? He has been disappointing us with many of his votes lately, and now he has really stepped across the line with the endorsement of Arthur Obamacare Williams. Please think about. We need someone who has the backbone to stand up to the Washington DC establishment and the Raleigh establishment.

Commented: Sunday, July 15th, 2012 @ 1:15 am By: Raphael Semmes

Hmmm! They left out the part about Brubaker being the brains and instigator behind Richard Morgan stabbing the House Republican caucus in the back and doing a seperate corrupt deal with liberal Democrat Jim Black to give Black the real power in the House. Black was later convicted of corruption in federal court and sent to prison, but unfortunately most of his Democrat and RINO enablers escaped like Morgan and Brubaker.

One of Jim Black's Democrat enablers was Arthur Williams, so it was curious that Jim Black ''Republican'' Harold Brubaker attended Williams fundraiser this year. Birds of a feather . . .

Commented: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 2:05 am By: Raphael Semmes

This rogues gallery of RINO legislators and RINO former party leaders in NC should be enough to get any conservative to vote for Gurley.

However, the ''big name'' is even worse. Mike Huckabee, aka ''The Huckster'' may be solid on social issues but he is bad on most everything else, especially tax and spend issues. In 2008, some economic issue conservatives dubbed Huckabee a ''Christian socialist'' and this election year, the term that is being used for him on the major national conservative blog RedState is ''pro-life statist''.

Even worse, this primary season, Huckabee has become the ''anti-Tea Party'', consistently endorsing the RINO or establishment candidate in race after race where conservatives are backing a different candidate. Richard Lugar in Indiana and David Dewhurst in Texas are two major national examples. In North Carolina, Huckabee is already endorsing DC beltway lapdog Richard Hudson in the 8th congressional district runoff agaisnt conservative Scott Keadle, who is backed by numerous national conservative and Tea Party groups.

A Huckabee endorsement should be the kiss of death as far as economic conservatives are concerned for any candidate. Forest has told us who he really is by accepting Huckabee's endorsement. We need to get out and vote for Gurley.

Commented: Friday, July 13th, 2012 @ 1:46 am By: Raphael Semmes

Thanks, Fern. Having someone who served with Williams detailing what a snake he is helps local voters see him for the phony that he is.

Commented: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:23 am By: Raphael Semmes

Without second primaries, we would be stuck with corrupt Jim Black ally Richard Morgan as our insurance commissioner candidate, and Texas would be stuck with RINO Dewhurst as their Senate candidate. The fact that this twit who wrote this article cites Greg Dority shows that he is totally clueless. Everyone knows the real reason that Dority did not run in the second primary is that he was a sock puppet for the Raleigh beltway GOP establishment and took orders from them. Again, the result is that we have a lousy non-conservative nominee. Dority really let the party, and particularly conservative down by being a yes-man for the establishment and bailing out of the runoff. In that race, they have left the party with a nominee that I and many other conservatives simply cannot and will not vote for.

Commented: Thursday, July 12th, 2012 @ 2:16 am By: Raphael Semmes

Yeah, his new endorsements look pretty impressive, but it is his old endorsements that still concern me. When he first got into the race, it was almost daily emails announcing one promininent RINO after another endorsing Forest. That was a huge red flag. Now, just before the runoff, he sends out a ''partial list'' that curiously does not include a single one of those RINO's. I wonder if he has seperated his mailing list and has another email to a different group listing all those RINO's.

Commented: Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 @ 12:41 am By: Raphael Semmes

Republicans have run against pork barrell politics for years. Clearly Williams is still a Democrat in spirit and hasn't figured that out. Williams is a coward who refuses to show his face at Republican meetings. I guess Williams is afraid of being asked about his support for Obama for President in 2008 and his support for Obamacare when it was going through Congress in 2009. Bill Tarpening as a spokesman? I am surprised Williams didn't send his jailbird buddy Jim Black.

Commented: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 4:43 pm By: Raphael Semmes

McIntyre and Kissell are real pieces of work. Both originally voted against Obamacare. Then both voted last year AGAINST an attempt to repeal it. Now they both say they will vote to repeal it. Both were against it before they were for it before they were against it again. With weasels like this in office, no wonder politics gets a bad name.

And then we have our own local weasel, Arthur Williams, who supported Obama for president in 2008, supported Obamacare when it was going through Congress in 2009, is still very tight politically with Obama's main man in Beaufort County, Rev. David Moore, yet now tries to tell us he is against Obama and Obamacare. He is as much, actually more, of a phony than Kissell and McIntyre.

Commented: Monday, July 9th, 2012 @ 12:47 am By: Raphael Semmes

This article is surprising coming from Locke. Quoting a liberal professor on eliminating runoffs? That sounds more like the Daily Kos.

The district analysis also is skewed. In the 9th, it completely fails to mention that Pendergraph is a longtime former DEMOCRAT sheriff who not too many years ago toyed with running for Congress as a Democrat to help Nancy Pelosi get a majority. He is as much of a political weasel as Arthur Williams.

In the 8th, the article fails to mention that Scott Keadle is the endorsed candidate of the powerful national conservative PAC Club for Growth and other national conservative groups, while former congressional staffer Richard Hudson is the candidate of the beltway GOP establishment. This is a clear choice betweenn someone who would fight for conservative prinicples and some who would be Mr. Milquetoast, a rubber stamp for our incredibly weak Congressional GOP leadership.

Commented: Thursday, July 5th, 2012 @ 11:56 pm By: Raphael Semmes

The only constituents Arthur Williams was known to serve when he was in Raleigh as a lieutenant in the corrupt organization of former Democrat Speaker, and convicted felon (federal court, corruption), Jim Black were big special interests like the Committee of 100 and Rev. David Moore's various projects. His blather about such things only shows that he would not represent conservative principals. But since Williams supported Obama for president in 2008, we already knew that.

Commented: Saturday, June 30th, 2012 @ 9:24 am By: Raphael Semmes

Richard Morgan's support for raising the insurance rates in eastern North Carolina is reason enough to vote against him in the Republican primary, but his treachery in public office adds another angle to what is wrong with Morgan. You have hit the nail on the head as to his anti-coast positions on insurance.

You got Morgan's history there quite wrong and it is a lot more sinister than you set out. Republicans did not get an even split with Democrats on election day. They got a majority. That majority became an even split when corrupt Jim Black (since convicted in federal court and sent to prison for his misdeeds) bought off Mike Decker to switch parties, creating the even split. Richard Morgan had NOT been minority leader. Leo Daughtry of Johnston County held that position. The House Republican Caucus voted overwhelmingly to select Daughtry to be co-Speaker in an equal power sharing arrangement with the Democrats. That was derailed when Richard Morgan, Harold Brubaker,and three other turncoat Republicans made a seperate deal with Black for an uneven split of power, where Black got most of the power with a few titles and a little dab of power for the five turncoats. Morgan got the largely paper title of ''co-Speaker'' in that deal. Redistricting was done during that session, and Black concentrated on drawing districts to elect more Democrats while Morgan concentrated on drawing districts to eliminate conservatives in Republican primaries. As a result, the next election brought a Democrat majority to the House and the elimination of a number of conservatives on the GOP side. One of those conservatives eliminated was Representative John Rhodes (R-Mecklenburg) who was defeated in his primary by a candidate recruited by Morgan by the name of Thom Tillis.

It was as a result of these shananigans that Morgan was overwhelmingly kicked out of the party and barred from holding any party office by the State Republican Executive Committee. Morgan was also defeated for renomination in the GOP primary in his own district.

Incidentally, the brains behind Morgan's corrupt bargain with Jim Black was none other than Harold Brubaker, who curiously attended an Arthur Williams fundraiser this year. As they say, birds of a feather . . .

Commented: Thursday, June 28th, 2012 @ 5:29 am By: Raphael Semmes