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 health insurance package out of concern that it ran afoul of a 1981 state Supreme Court ruling.

“As you and I discussed, attached is a resolution for you to present at the agenda meeting tomorrow,” Nichols wrote in an e-mail dated March 9 to Commissioner Stan Norwalk, a Democrat. Nichols said he would discuss the resolution with three other county commissioners, all of whom are also Democrats.

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So the same people who want free health care are arguing for abortions to save money? I guess we know what is in store for our senior citizens.

David DeGerolamo

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 Candidate Debate

The debate will start at 1:00 PM with the following candidates participating:

                        Frank Deatrich
                        Renee Ellmers
                        Todd Gailas

This debate will be moderated by Frank Ragsdale.

The questions for this debate can be submitted by clicking here:

4th District Republican Primary Candidate Debate

The debate will start at 3:00 PM with the following candidates participating:

                        David Burnett
                        BJ Lawson
                        Frank Roche

This debate will be moderated by Dr. Ada Fisher.

The questions for this debate can be submitted here:

13th District Republican Primary Candidate Debate

The debate will start at 5:00 PM with the following candidates participating:

                        Dan Huffman
                        Frank Hurley
                        Bill Randall
                        Bernie Reeves

The questions for this debate can be submitted here:

This debate will be moderated by Jeff Aydelette.

The last speaker for this event will be Eddie Burks starting at 7:00 PM. Mr. Burks is one of the Republican primary candidates running for the United States Senate seat.

Media Passes

All media will be issued press passes prior to March 20th.  Please submit all requests to Media@NCFreedom.us to validate your creditials. No video recording equipment will be allowed in the convention hall without a press pass.

Current Sponsors:

NCFreedom
FairTax
Todd Gailas
B.J. Lawson
Robin and Hans Mentha
Frank Roche
WhatBubbaKnows.net

Sponsorships are available for $50. This entitles a sponsor to a table at the event.

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 »

NC Freedom Triangle Region is hosting three candidate debates for the United States House of Representatives on Saturday, March 20^th. The debates will be followed by a campaign speech by Eddie Burks who is running for the US Senate seat from North Carolina. For more information, click here. Every candidate that was invited to this event has accepted their invitation and we wish to thank them for their participation. 

The first debate for the 2^nd district starts at 1:00 PM.

• Frank Deatrich
• Renee Ellmers
• Todd Gailas 

The second debate for the 4th district starts at 3:00 PM.

• David Burnett
• BJ Lawson
• Frank Roche

 The third debate for the 13th district starts at 5:00 PM.

• Dan Huffman
• Frank Hurley
• Bill Randall
• Bernie Reeves

NCFreedom is strongly encouraging other tea party groups across the state to sponsor primary debates for both parties. Our goal is to provide a non-partisan forum for people to get answers to specific questions in order to make an informed vote.  As I said at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, if anyone votes for a candidate based on an endorsement, they should not be allowed to vote. It is not too much to ask people to vote for the best candidate based on their own research.  I know this sentiment is not shared by many people but I think that the men and women who sacrificed so much to give us liberty would expect no less. 

I am not saying that endorsements are to be ignored. In fact, the Asheville Tea PAC has set the bar for what I consider to be a national model. They have submitted questionnaires to each of the candidates running for the US House of Representatives in District 11. The responses are posted on their site and have been graded based on a set of criteria to validate the results. They are hosting a candidate debate and registered members of their PAC will vote on whom they feel won the debate. The combination of the questionnaires and the people’s votes will determine who their PAC will endorse. An endorsement based on validated graded responses and people’s straw poll results is one that I would take into consideration.

The following is an email sent in response to an email concerning healthcare to Rep. David Price. Mr. Price obviously has no regard for our Constitution and feels that it is a living document. Instead of breathing life into this document, he is suffocating the very essence of our freedom. Even though I personally refuted his “validation” of the Constitutionality of health care legislation to him citing James Madison’s Federalist Paper 41, he continues to impose his will on the people by distorting our highest laws. Read more »

Pat Buchanan has written an article for World Net Daily concerning the state of our government. As the title of his article suggests, the solutions to solve our fiscal deficits cannot be put into place for political reasons. Mr. Buchanan makes an interesting point concerning “conservative” Republican politicians in Washingtion working with President Obama:

Republicans are not going to give  a single vote for a tax increase. Not only would this violate a commitment most made to the people who elected them, it would be politically suicidal. For behind the GOP today, and its best hope of recapturing Congress in 2010, are the tea-party irregulars.

And tea partiers now play the role of Red Army commissars who sat at machine guns behind their own troops to shoot down any soldier who retreated or ran. Republicans who sign on to tax hikes cannot go home again.

A year ago on February 18th, 2009, the first call for tea parties was made by Rick Santelli. What a difference one year makes. A conservative author and political figure compares people who are standing up to defend the Constitution and the very future of our country to Communist mass murderers. I doubt he is implying that a Republican who votes for a tax hike cannot return to his home for fear of his life. However, I don’t see another meaning in the context of the previous sentence.

Tea-party irregulars? I guess any label will do these days. I have been called a 912er, tea partier, conservative, racist, Nazi and other labels in the past year. I prefer American patriot. There is no mistaking the meaning of this “label”.

As the politicians work to get elected or reelected in November across the country, they need to admit that the time for partisan fighting is over if the country is to survive.  They already know the state of the union. Hard decisions should have already been made by Congress. The rapidly fading political capital of a failed presidency cannot stop Congress from doing the job for which they are so handsomely paid.

In remarks to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Reid said the bar association’s ratings board puts too much weight on whether judicial nominees have prior bench experience and overlooks “real world” qualifications. Read more »

Catchy title. Watch this video from Andrew Breitbart’s speech from the Nashville Tea Party Convention. Read more »

As we were driving to the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, I was wondering what questions the press would be asking the attendees. I quickly realized that their questions would be the same as what they were asking before the event. The media would focus on the controversy and not the substance. Since I had commented on these questions already, I am going to give my answers from before the convention and after the convention.  Read more »

The first tea party convention is over. Was it worth the money? Yes Read more »