Showing posts with label Tar Heel State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tar Heel State. Show all posts

Friday, September 7, 2018

Equality NC Meeting Push-Back in the Tar Heel State

What's happening in North Carolina since the Republican incumbent Pat McCrory was forced out of office simply for protecting the basic genetic realities of life?

The North Carolina State Legislature is still dominated by Republicans, but many of them have felt the sting of standing up for life and family and they didn't get much support for doing so.

Will they fight to ensure that men and women stay in their proper facilities?


Some North Carolina lawmakers will enter the elections this year without an endorsement from a prominent rights groups that supported them previously.

Homosexuality and transgenderism are not rights. We need to confront these lies head on. Most Republicans simply refuse to do this!

Every seat in the Republican-controlled NC House and Senate is up for election this year.

That is strange. Normally, elected officials hold state senate seats for a longer period and they rotate in different terms.

Equality N.C., the largest and oldest LGBTQ rights advocacy group in the state, announced Tuesday that it won't support legislators who voted for the bill repealing the controversial bathroom bill known as HB2. The repeal bill lifted laws prohibiting transgender people from using the bathroom of their choice, but it blocked cities and counties from enacting policies that might protect the LGBTQ community from discrimination.

HB 2 was good legislation, big Big Business threatened these states, and the elected officials chickened out and caved in. This is beyond terrible.

Thus, the Equality NC said, those who voted for it failed to represent the group's values. So it won't endorse them.

Notice how hard-core and uncompromising the bullying LGBT lobby is. They don't take "No" for an answer. They don't settle for compromise. They don't take whatever wins they have achieved. They double down and demand that they get away with more.

The fact that the bathroom bill repeal is not enough should be proof positive that it's not enough to talk about privacy. It's time to educate people without compromise that transgenderism is a mental disorder, not a civil right. Period.

“Today, we are making it clear: LGBTQ North Carolinians will not stand for politicians who campaign on our issues, but fail to follow through on their promises to us," Matt Hirschy, Equality NC Interim Executive Director, said in a statement.

Let's hope that their backing away from supporting Democratic politicians will help better Republicans get elected to office

"A decision we did not make lightly — but one that had to be made to uphold the integrity and mission of our organization," he said.



Historically, Equality NC mostly endorses Democrats. But it's unclear who lost support from the group.

The Democratic Party has to keeping go so far left to catch up with all the wily interest groups which have hijacked the party. Who is paying for this unbiblical insanity?

Equality NC didn't identify which candidates it has previously endorsed. But its list of endorsements for the 2018 primaries shows they are opposing some incumbents.

Equality NC endorsed Allison Dahle in her race against Democratic Rep. Duane Hall in House District 11. In District 43, the group endorsed Prince Christian over Democratic Rep. Elmer Floyd. It's also supporting Mujtaba Mohammed in his race against Sen. Joel Ford.

Nearly 40 Democrats in the legislature supported the HB2 repeal bill, including 30 Democrats in the House and nine in the Senate. Minority leaders Darren Jackson in the House and Dan Blue in the Senate are among the Democrats who supported the bill.

Will this Democratic fratricide help the Republicans? Let's hope so.

Leslie Rudd, a spokeswoman for Blue, said all Democratic state senators supported a full repeal. But that wasn't on the table, she said, so they voted for House Bill 142 "knowing that the fight for equal rights is not over in North Carolina."

“We understand and respect Equality NC’s position on this issue; the decision to vote for House Bill 142 was not one that our members made lightly," Rudd wrote in an email.

“Every single Democratic senator that voted for House Bill 142 had previously sponsored legislation to repeal House Bill 2 and/or expand protections for gender identity and sexual orientation at the state level," she said. “It is important for all voters that value equality to consider their legislator’s vote on House Bill 142; as well as their full legislative track record on LGBTQ rights."

Final Reflection

The Big Gay Hate Machine will never be happy until everyone respects, reverse, and bows down to their agenda in full.

Conservatives need to wake up and accept the fact that this anti-reality interest group is not out to play for the middle. They want everything their way, or they will fight and destroy whatever gets in their way to achieve those ends.

We need to stand strong for biological reality and biblical truth at all costs. North Carolinians need to wake up and do what is right for their children, for their country, and for their constitutional rights.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Dope GOPe Tillis Still Pushing Amnesty. Why?

Thom Tillis was just elected to the United States Senate in 2014.

It was an epic year for Republicans across the country, even in California, where the epic low turnout worked in our favor, and brought four Republicans into the state assembly.

Thom Tillis had served as the Speaker of the North Carolina State House. He faced a pretty tough battle to win, even though North Carolina has traditionally been a red state, or at least a conservative one. Now the Tar Heel State has appeared more recently as a battleground.

Trump made numerous visits there. The previous governor, Pat McCrory, had served as the mayor of the urban Charlotte. He also tried to stay away from the contentious cultural issues. He voted legislation which would allow judges the freedom of conscience not to officiate a same-sex wedding. The supermajority Republican legislature overrode his veto.



When it came to protecting women and children, and not accommodating the transgender insanity in public bathrooms and restrooms, McCrory chose to sign.

The whole point about bringing this information is to show how North Carolina is turning into the contentious battleground for all issues. Illegal immigration has featured prominently in this state, but at least McCrory signed off on legislation banning sanctuary cities in North Carolina.

It seems like Tillis needs to read that memo.

Check out what he released on his US Senate page today:

A Republican senator is trying to break years of congressional gridlock over immigration with a new plan that would pair changes sought by Democrats with those pushed by his own party.

At a time when President Donald Trump’s promise to build a wall along the southern border is dominating the immigration discussion, Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) has been talking with a handful of Democrats and Republicans to build support for a broader overhaul. His plan would aim to tighten border security and toughen enforcement of immigration laws—goals often cited by Republicans—while addressing the fate of the roughly 11 million immigrants currently in the U.S. illegally, a Democratic priority.

For Democrats, “this may be one issue where they’re as tired as I am of seeing the parades and not getting to the game,” said Mr. Tillis, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, after the last big Senate immigration debate.

The basic elements of immigration legislation have been known for many years, but the parties haven’t been able to agree on how to enact legislation. Democrats and some Senate Republicans have favored comprehensive legislation that incorporates a wide range of ideas, each appealing to different constituencies. House Republicans have wanted to pass enforcement legislation first and then, at some point in the future, overhaul the legal immigration system and then deal with the people in the U.S. illegally.

What is different about the Tillis approach is that it tackles the issue incrementally—but at every step gives each party something that it wants.

Tillis insists on trying to pass something that will get votes from Democrats.

Don't these people understand that Democratic party leaders and elected officials want amnesty because they want the votes. Even Chris Matthews gets that. Once in a while, the MSNBC screwball speaks some truth, especially about the needs and concerns of working class people in the United States.

Illegal immigration hurts Middle America. Even STEM students and professionals should worry about illegal immigration, since more imported workers--legally or illegally--or cutting into their wages and cutting them out of jobs.

What is going on with this guy and others like him? Why are they so determined to pass some kind of amnesty?

Mr. Tillis is in the early stages of developing his framework, and it isn’t yet clear how much support it would garner from either side of the aisle. It also is unclear whether the White House would go along, as Mr. Trump ran for office with a hard-line message of tougher enforcement and protection for American workers. Previous efforts to enact sweeping immigration changes with bipartisan support have fizzled, most recently in 2013.

The 2013 program fizzled in large part because they were based on false premises. More on that later.

Donald Trump ran on a program, a platform of enforcement. We don't need more misplaced compassion in this country. We had a grand amnesty in 1986. We got shot in the foot, stabbed in the back by the DC two-step. No more.

This "framework" that Tillis is poring over. He might as well scrap the whole program. There are more conservative Republican lawmakers, at least five.

Not only that, but the Democratic Party caucus, which failed to secure the Senate Majority when they had the chance, has now tilted even more to the left. They are not interested in compromise. They want amnesty for 11 million illegal aliens. What will it take for Republicans to develop

Mr. Tillis would enact a comprehensive overhaul of immigration law in increments—but at every step giving each party something it wants. He said his plan is aimed at jump-starting discussions over the order in which to introduce changes to immigration policy so that proponents could secure the 60 votes most bills need to clear the Senate, where Republicans hold a 52-48 majority.

Once again, who cares what the Democratic Party wants? Or even what the Republican Party wants?

We the People are crying out for enforcement. It could not be more simple than that. This country has an enforcement problem, because the previous President has routinely ignored the rule of law and preferred illegal aliens over the needs of the citizens.

For instance, the first steps under Mr. Tillis’s proposal would tighten border security and deport any illegal immigrants engaged in criminal activities, while also providing some temporary legal status for people brought to the country illegally at a young age by their parents.

NO! Nothing about this legal status nonsense. No!

Once those two elements were in place, lawmakers could strengthen the enforcement of immigration laws through programs such as e-Verify, an online system companies use to check whether applicants are in the country legally. At the same time, lawmakers could address how to deal with the adult members of the illegal immigrant population.

At a later stage, lawmakers could focus on preventing people from overstaying their visa limits while overhauling some popular work-visa programs, including those for high-skilled foreign workers and low-skilled seasonal workers.

Why are US Senators obsessed with this incrementalism?

The argument from Republican lawmakers at this time is that they need Democratic votes to pass key legislation. True. But that should not be a carte blanche invitation to capitulate to Democratic demands on key concerns.

How about putting more pressure on the red state Democrats, of which there are at least 5.



Those US Senators are going to have to do everything in their power to stay in the good graces of the conservative base from which they were elected. Let's not forget that in 2012, when they were elected or re-elected, the Democratic turnout overshadowed the Republican turnout in large part because Romney was not a stellar candidate.

Republicans keep wanting to "work with" Democrats by embracing  some of their talking points. Their first point of departure needs to focus on doing what is best for the country.

Tillis and his fellow GOP-Establishment leaning colleagues don't want to fight. They want to go along with the flow and  make nice. They don't seem to understand that on key issues like immigration,, there is no middle ground anymore. We need border security and enforcement, and these issues should not rest on pitiful compromise.

It's time for heated pressure against the very Democrats who claim that they care about everyone. If Democrats continue to be exposed as the obstructions, they can prepare for a very bad 2018, where they lose as many as 10 more US Senate seats.

Contact US Senator Thom Tillis, and tell him:

No amnesty!

Enforce our laws.

Build the wall!

Secure the borders!

Washington, D.C.

185 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-6342
Fax: (202) 228-2563

Charlotte

9300 Harris Corners Pkwy
Suite 170
Charlotte, NC 28269
Phone: 704-509-9087
Fax: 704-509-9162

Greenville

1694 E. Arlington Blvd.
Suite B
Greenville, NC 27858
Phone: (252) 329-0371
Fax: (252) 329-0290

Hendersonville

1 Historic Courthouse Square
Suite 112
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Phone: (828) 693-8750
Fax: (828) 693-9724

High Point

1840 Eastchester Dr.
Suite 200
High Point, NC 27265
Phone: (336) 885-0685
Fax: (336) 885-0692

Raleigh

310 New Bern Avenue
Suite 122
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 856-4630
Fax: (919) 856-4053