by Thomas Mills | Jan 7, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, National Politics, US House |
Well, my opponent, Rep. Richard Hudson, joined his cynical Republican colleagues in voting to bring back pre-existing conditions, strip health insurance away from millions of Americans, and allow people to go broke because of illness or injury. Yes, the House voted...
by Thomas Mills | Jan 6, 2016 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US House |
my brother there in April, he joined two centuries of my relatives whose final resting places are scattered across the district. Anson County shaped me. I entered school with the first fully integrated class in Anson County history. At eight years old, I was selling...
by Thomas Mills | Dec 22, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, US House |
Well, yesterday was put up or shut up day. After urging people to run for office to contest every Republican-held seat, I filed to run for Congress in North Carolina’s 8th District. I didn’t plan on running, but I also wasn’t going to watch a Republican incumbent get...
by John Wynne | Dec 17, 2015 | Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, National Politics, NC Politics, US House |
Renee Ellmers is getting yet another challenger in the Second District primary race: Tim D’Annunzio, a businessman who lives in Raeford, just outside the district. He filed his candidacy two days ago. (Congresswoman Ellmers has yet to do so.) Longtime observers...
by John Wynne | Nov 20, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Congressional Races, Features, National Politics, NC Politics, US House |
There’s a rematch coming in the 3rd congressional district. Because the 3rd is strongly Republican-leaning, the real fight is going to be in the primary between incumbent Congressman Walter Jones and challenger Taylor Griffin. Griffin lost a close one two years...
by John Wynne | Nov 2, 2015 | 2016 Elections, Carolina Strategic Analysis, Features, NC Politics, NCGOP, US House |
North Carolina’s own Representative Walter Jones was a thorn in the side of the GOP leadership under John Boehner. And while Boehner might have been replaced by Paul Ryan, Jones is not letting up. Jones refused to join other anti-establishment figures like Mark...
