Posted on 10/14/2014 7:58:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
With Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) locked in a tight reelection bid and in need of a good Democratic turnout in a few short weeks, Democrats appear eager to promote the claim that North Carolina Republicans and their candidate for Senate are hostile to African Americans.
Monday evening Hagan and MSNBC host Chris Matthews charged that the new North Carolina voting rules are intended to target African Americans, not because they are Democrats, but because they are African Americans.
“African Americans think that they're being targeted because they're African Americans not because they're Democrats,” Matthews said on his MSNBC show.
Hagan responded, “Well, you know, I tend to agree with them.”
Earlier that day, left-leaning publications, the DSCC, and Hagan campaign made hay out of a racially charged statement state House Speaker Thom Tillis released in 2007, essentially calling government redistribution of wealth to be “de facto reparations.”[continued]
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Sounds like both camps are searching for something, anything to smear the other with. “He’s a racist.” “She is married to a racist.” Apparently neither has anything else. No ideas, just get elected and do as they are told by the party leaders.
I feel sad for North Carolinians, if this is the best they can come up with.
Yes, we have a race between two mediocre candidates. The GOP gave us the same in the previous two races with the mediocre establishment carpetbagger Liddy (Mrs. Bob) Dole who served one term before Hagan, an actual resident of the state, defeated her.
A decent and articulate conservative GOP candidate would be trouncing Hagan. The Dems and their allies in the press have Tillis constantly on the defensive. He can’t seem to articulate his message. Hagan’s attack ads are more sophisticated and polished than his ads which seem crude and harsh. Plus Tillis has zero charisma so the clarity of message and it’s effective communication become critical.
The Dem voter turnout ground game will likely prove to be the decisive factor.
In 2008, when Sen. Kay Hagan was first running for Senate against then-Sen. Elizabeth Dole, Hagan came under fire for her husband’s membership in the exclusive Greensboro Country Club which was not integrated until the mid-1990s.
That cycle, Politico reported that despite the fact that her husband “supported opening up membership,” Chip Hagan remained a member of the club for years before the it admitted its first black member in 1995.
“Chip supported broadening the membership to include African Americans and others,” Hagan spokeswoman at the time Colleen Flanagan told Politico. “Though it took longer than it should have, Greensboro County Club fully desegregated in 1995 and remains so today.”
According to Flanagan, Hagan herself was never a member and her husband inherited the membership from his father.
“Greensboro was one of the last all-white clubs in the area to integrate,” Politico reported at the time. “In the mid-1990s, members claimed they had never received an application from a black person, even though African Americans make up about 35 percent of the local population — and the city was site to groundbreaking civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s.”
At the time the National Republican Senatorial Committee argued that Hagan should have demand her husband leave the club.
“She has a history of putting many things before her so–called principles,” then NRSC spokesman John Randall told Politico. “I think she needs to answer whether or not she was aware of the situation — it would be shocking if she didn’t know. She needs to explain why she didn’t push her husband to terminate his association with such an organization.”
The Hagan campaign accused the Dole campaign of “textbook Washington desperation” according to the 2008 report.
Six years later the election between Tillis and Hagan is very tight. A recent High Point University poll has the pair tied with 40 percent to 40 percent of the vote.
The Hagan campaign did not respond to request for comment.
I watched, on YouTube, the last Debate between the Hag and Tillis. That woman is a witch....... or a word that rhymes with “witch”.
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