After weeks of complaints from pro-choice advocates about partisan ties between Republicans on the Wake County Board of Commissioners and a pro-life state legislator, Wake County Democratic Party Chairman Jack Nichols has joined forces with liberal commissioners to reinstate coverage for elective abortions in the county’s employee health insurance plan.

Nichols, who also works as an attorney for Planned Parenthood Health Systems in Raleigh, drafted a resolution (PDF download) that commissioners will vote up or down at Monday’s commission meeting. The resolution would reverse a decision by county administrators in February to nix taxpayer-funded elective abortion coverage from their standard

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United States House of Representatives

 Candidate Debate
March 20^th, 2010

Lighthouse Convention Center
326 Tryon Road
Raleigh, NC  27603

NCFreedom is sponsoring three candidate debates for the United States House of Representatives in Raleigh on March 20^th. Each of the debates will have a separate format that has been agreed upon prior to the event. All questions that are used in the debate will be submitted by people using the links shown below. Please limit your questions to areas that pertain to federal issues. Questions that a representative would not be able to address if elected will not be considered.

2^nd District Republican Primary …read more

While it would appear that the health care bill is constantly changing, it’s actually not. The big upcoming House vote will be on the Senate bill (H.R. 3590), exactly as it passed the Senate on Christmas Eve. It still includes dozens of corrupt special-interest deals like the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase, Chris Dodd’s $100M University of Connecticut Hospital earmark, etc. There are a lot of promises being made right now that the bill will be fixed or improved in various ways after it passes, possibly via reconciliation. It’s very important to understand, however, that once the House passes the …read more

Recently, I received an e-mail from Patients First regarding President Obama’s March 3rd speech to the press and to the American people which called on Congress to provide quick and decisive action on Health Care Reform legislation. The President asked Congress to break Senate rules by using reconciliation, a simple majority rules process used for budget bills, to pass the non-budget, Health Care Reform legislation. The e-mail presented the facts about the legislation and called on the recipients to contact their members of Congress. The effects of this legislation would be so detrimental to our nation’s economy and our personal liberties …read more

The new neighborhood policy that will be instituted in Wake County is attracting national media attention. The following article is from FoxNews.com.

A North Carolina school system voted to ditch a longstanding controversial policy of busing children to schools outside their neighborhood to achieve diversity, WRAL.com reported Wednesday. …read more