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RALEIGH – During the two heartbreaking weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities, Congress passed two separate relief bills totaling $62.3 billion. Supporters portrayed the aid packages as emergency measures and desperately needed. But six weeks later, according to media reports, the federal government has spent or contracted to spend only about a quarter of the money, or $16.2 billion. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco expressed disappointment with the relatively slow spending pace, but other politicians and observers – including members of Congress – have registered their satisfaction that careful analysis and bidding procedures have preceded...

Burr touts buyout during area visit By George A. Chidi, Rocky Mount Telegram The next step legislators can take would be to let farmers sell their extra tobacco early now that Congress has voted to end the tobacco quota system, said the Republicans' candidate for the U.S. Senate at a Saturday morning campaign stop in Rocky Mount. U.S. Rep. Richard Burr, R-5th District, hopes to add the rules change to an omnibus appropriations bill before the end of the year, he said shortly after meeting with supporters at the Hampton Inn in Rocky Mount. "With the quota system going away,...

This is an interesting revelation. Foxx has claimed to have consistently maintained conservative positions. One wonders whether she will show consistency with her past or explain why she has different core principles now that she is running for congress in the conservative NC5 district.

BANNER ELK, NC (Talon News) -- Last month, Talon News reported on the candidacy of Vernon Robinson, a conservative black Republican running for the 5th Congressional District seat in North Carolina in 2004. In continuing coverage, Talon News recently spoke with candidate Virginia Foxx in an exclusive interview. In a positive, calm manner, Foxx says she realizes criticisms levied against her from other candidates vying for the congressional seat are all a part of the "dirty process" of running for political office. "This is one of the most painful things about politics," Foxx told Talon News. "However, I believe that...

5th District Broyhill 240 Robinson 183 Helvey 119 Foxx 115 Governor Vinroot 1539 Ballantine 1201 Cobey 1110

Islamic Terrorism, Berg's Executioners, Illegal Immigration, Jesse Jackson's mug shot....All in one television commercial. http://vernonrobinson.com/media/twilight.mov

Burr: Use Medicaid funds for MedicaidBy Ned B. Hunter, Rocky Mount Telegram North Carolina will receive $510 million in federal aid as part of the new tax cut package, said U.S. Rep. Richard Burr. State lawmakers need to use the $275 million of that aid earmarked for Medicaid for what it was intended, said Burr, R-5th District, speaking to nearly 180 people who were invited to the Rose Hill Plantation outside Nashville by N.C. Rep. Bill Daughtridge, R-Nash. "Those funds need to be "sheltered in a way to protect the Medicaid program." Burr, who was encouraged by the White House...

<p>A North Carolina newspaper meant to chastise Republican Vernon Robinson when it declared: "Jesse Helms is back! This time, he's black."</p> <p>Now that quote has become Mr. Robinson's campaign slogan as he battles seven other 5th District congressional candidates in the July 20 Republican primary.</p>

ATR Release 3/31/2004 Support for Tax Reform and Spending Restraint Continues to Grow In North Carolina 5th Congressional District Taxes and Spending Dominate WASHINGTON - North, South, East, and West, taxes continue to dominate political discussion in America . Voters in Alabama , California , and Oregon have rejected tax increases. President Bush and Sen. John Kerry talk about taxes every day. And without question, this will also play out in Congressional races throughout the country. Case in point: North Carolina 's 5 th District. A plan put forward by candidate Nathan Tabor, an Americans for Tax Reform pledge signer,...

U.S. Rep. Richard Burr's decision to seek the U.S. Senate seat of John Edwards may have some Piedmont Triad voters remembering the 1970s television comedy "Eight is Enough." With the primary election more than three months away and the general election seven months off, eight candidates are already in a messy tussle for the Republican nomination for Burr's 5th Congressional District seat. They include current and former state legislators and a black conservative activist. There's also a soy supplement executive and the scion of the Broyhill furniture family. Though most campaigns only heat up in the final weeks before a...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.Businessman says he wants to help those in 5th District who lost jobs The son of Jim Broyhill, a former congressman and U.S. senator, is joining the list of Republican candidates trying to replace U.S. Rep. Richard Burr in the 5th Congressional District. Ed Broyhill, a Winston-Salem businessman and the former owner of Edgar B Furniture Industries Inc., said yesterday he will run in the Republican primary next May. Burr has said he will run for the U.S. Senate next year. Broyhill, 49, said he wants to help people in the district...

"Clemmon's Courier" Thursday's Internet Edition, November 13, 2003. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than money: Ed Powell counts on credentials By Dwight Sparks - His unshorn grandfather — long hair and long beard — had vowed not to shave or cut his hair until a Republican was elected President. Ed Powell’s grandfather missed it by four years — dying in 1948, not living to see Dwight D. Eisenhour finally reverse the GOP’s dismal fortunes during the FDR era. Powell grew up in the Davie County hinterlands, one of two sons of a lumberman who operated a sawmill where Lake Myers is today. Both...

FIFTH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE ED POWELL TODAY CONDEMNED THE CENTRAL AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (CAFTA) Winston-Salem, NC – Republican 5th District Congressional candidate Ed Powell announced today that he is absolutely opposed to the newly announced Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Powell said, “We should have learned our lesson from NAFTA and the awful Chinese experiment that the only people who win in these trade agreements are the Wall Street chieftains who have sold the Fifth District workers down the river in the textile and furniture industry. These big-time Wall Streeters, who have one of their own running...

Many black Republicans running for Congress are turning away from the identity politics of race and ethnicity and, in the process, seeking to reshape the way politicians and voters think about skin color and ideology. In 2004, 10 black Republicans are running for the House and Senate; these candidates come from Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Oregon and Rhode Island. Unlike many black Democrats, whose political roots go back to the civil rights battles of the 1950s and ’60s, these Republicans draw a distinction between politics and race, arguing that their worldview has little to do with...

Sen. Foxx banks on her experience N.C. Sen. Virginia Foxx By Dwight Sparks - Forsyth County has long dominated the 5th Congressional district. This year, a woman from the mountains is threatening to change that. She is State Sen. Virginia Foxx. The Banner Elk resident has the most formidable political record of all those running. First as a three-term member of the Watauga County school board. Then as president of Mayland Community College. And now a five-term member of the State Senate. Her district encompasses 35 percent of the voting power of the congressional district — a strength that has...

01/19/2004 Associated Press A city council member placed a granite block bearing the Ten Commandments on a walkway in front of a city hall deserted on Monday's Martin Luther King holiday. Vernon Robinson, a black conservative who has been on the city council since 1998, said he and four helpers acted on the holiday because the barren adjoining parking lot allowed him to move in a truck and crane to position the one-ton block. The monument — inscribed on one side with the Ten Commandments and on the other side with the Bill of Rights — was positioned on a...

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Marker is dropped off at City Hall Robinson says he didn't know procedure to get a permit to put it there By Victoria Cherrie and Theo Helm JOURNAL REPORTERS >> a d v e r t i s e m e n t << >> w e b t o o l s << Print Story | Email Story | News Tip? >> r e l a t e d m a t e r i a l << City Council Member Vernon Robinson told reporters that he bought the granite marker with his own money....

City Council member Robinson placed 1-ton marker bearing Ten Commandments yesterday A seven-man crew removed a monument of the Ten Commandments late this morning from in front of City Hall that had been illegally placed there the day before by City Council Member Vernon Robinson. City workers removed the 1-ton marker on the order of City Manager Bill Stuart. They used a backhoe to slowly carry the two-piece monument to a trailer attached to a city truck.Robinson was not at the scene. The truck was taking the monument to a warehouse in the City Yard, where it would stay "until...

<p>WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A City Council member who says he was inspired by Alabama's ousted chief justice placed a 1-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments in front of City Hall yesterday while it was closed for the Martin Luther King holiday.</p>

LAW OF THE LANDN.C. Commandments monument removedU.S. House candidate inspired by Judge Moore installed it at city hall Posted: January 20, 20043:47 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A Ten Commandments monument inspired by ousted Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore was removed from a North Carolina city hall one day after it was installed by a council member. Winston-Salem councilman Vernon Robinson Vernon Robinson, a candidate for a vacant U.S. House seat, said he paid $2,000 out of his personal funds to install the monument at the Winston-Salem city hall, which was deserted because of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the...

UNDER THE DOME 'Pastor' pesters in e-mail By KRISTIN COLLINS One big question surfaced Thursday in the heated Fifth Congressional District race: Who is Pastor Randy? The "pastor" is the fictitious signer of an e-mail hoax targeting Republican candidate Nathan Tabor, a Kenansville millionaire who has built his campaign on the support of local clergy. The message, which went out to hundreds of people, appears at first to be from a supporter of Tabor, who is one of about a half-dozen Republicans who want to succeed U.S. Rep. Richard Burr in a district that stretches from Winston-Salem to the Tennessee...

Mea Culpa by Michael Barrick. 02-20-2004. I got a few things wrong in a recent column When the publisher of a national Christian weekly – a writer known for his direct and pointed prose – suggests to me that I was over the top in a column I wrote about a North Carolina congressional candidate, then I was over the top. He wasn’t the first to suggest it, though. So have a few of my colleagues and, not surprisingly, the subject of the column, Vernon Robinson. Mr. Robinson is one of many candidates running for the open 5th Congressional seat...

Tuesday, March 2, 2004 Filing criticizes Foxx's spending She says expenses linked to Senate, not congressional, run By David Rice and Theo Helm JOURNAL REPORTERS State Sen. Virginia Foxx continued to defend spending from her state Senate campaign yesterday as at least one complaint was filed with the Federal Election Commission saying that she used money from the state campaign to support her campaign for Congress. Foxx's campaign opponents have questioned expenses paid by her state campaign committee because federal law forbids the use of nonfederal campaign accounts to make expenditures for federal campaigns. Foxx, R-Watauga, has said repeatedly that...

Winston-Salem, however, is one of the few places where city traffic engineers keep studying trouble spots after improvements are made, state transportation-safety officials said. The documentation is at the core of a long-running but little-known effort by city officials in Winston-Salem to make the streets safer. Over the past 17 years, the Winston-Salem Department of Transportation's Safety Improvement Program has tried to reduce wrecks at 469 intersections. Studies completed this year show that at 58 spots, the number of wrecks dropped by more than 25 percent - from 1,064 to 786, over a study period of about four years. The...

Copyright 2004 Bulletin News Network, Inc. The Frontrunner February 25, 2004 Wednesday SECTION: US HOUSE LENGTH: 297 words HEADLINE: NC5: GOP Primary Getting Nasty BODY: The Hill (2/25, Dealey) reports, "Vernon Robinson and Nathan Tabor both hope to win the Republican nod to replace retiring Rep. Richard Burr (R-NC). Both are anti-tax, pro-family and all for guns. And both claim to represent the vision and mores of the district's staunchly conservative Christian-right constituency." But in "the absence of substantive policy differences between them, their campaigns have turned to throwing sharp elbows, thereby making their rivalry within the GOP primary among...

Vernon Robinson is the Fundraising Champion in the Race for North Carolina's 5th Congressional District Race Becomes Most Expensive in the Country Robinson is Nation's Top Non-Incumbent WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- The Robinson for Congress Campaign (R-NC5) filed its year-end report with the Federal Election Commission on Saturday, January 31st. Winston-Salem City Councilman Vernon Robinson trounced his self-financed millionaire opponents and finished first in fundraising for both the 4th Quarter and the year. Indeed, the fundraising race was not particularly close, with Robinson, a nationally-prominent conservative, raising substantially more in the fourth quarter ($430,689.98) than all of his opponents COMBINED (that...