https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article314476431.html

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"NC’s Ted Budd joins Thom Tillis in call for investigation of Minneapolis killing"

+1?

1/28/2026 2:26:57 PM

"You're gonna be so proud (of Ted Budd). . ."

1/28/2026 5:03:31 PM

Is it a good thing that Page defeated Berger?

3/4/2026 1:20:40 PM

the race was decided by 2 votes, so I don't expect it's over yet

3/4/2026 6:24:43 PM

Berger was moving with more and more disregard for the will of voters. The casino episode was a fiasco, scandalous, and ran askew of some religious folks. All the legislation and court battles where he attempted to steal appointments and other governor powers was pretty unpopular. Voters rightfully get frustrated when you refuse to negotiate a budget.

He deserves to lose. If he somehow pulls it out in a bizarro recount scenario, he deserves all the lost sleep. Probably everyone in the NCGA needs a wake up call that incumbency is no guarantee of future success.

3/4/2026 10:48:54 PM

Hopefully this preempts Just Dance Vance in Rocky Mount today.

https://www.wral.com/news/local/nc-release-rocky-mount-budget-audit-findings-raleigh-press-conference-march-2026/

I have read several local articles that mention the biggest single spend item was the city purchasing property for a casino complex. Not a single article has made the connection that this was bought as some kind of side deal/discussion of the Berger Casino fiasco. Why isn’t Berger, his aides, and the lobbyist with the casino holdings company not being dragged into this? What promises did Berger or the lobbyist make to convince a city council to overspend 25% of their budget on a hard to re-sale asset?

I don’t want to ignore Rocky Mount’s other spending, some of it seems pretty reckless, but the Casino fiasco has a lot of mileage left to give us. Local media just feels incapable or unwilling to get to the bottom of these types of stories in our state.

3/13/2026 5:41:15 AM

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"WHY ISN'T NOT"

3/13/2026 7:07:51 AM

https://www.wral.com/news/nccapitol/nc-elections-board-berger-recount-request-senate-page-march-2026/

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"On Tuesday Berger sent a letter to State Elections Director Sam Hayes asking for a hybrid type of recount that isn’t articulated under state law. Berger said his campaign has identified 220 ballots, cast by local voters, in which people weren’t recorded as voting in every race on the ballot. As both counties conduct their machine recounts, Berger is asking that they also pull out the 220 individual ballots in question to more closely examine them by hand — to determine if the voters did just skip some of the races, or if some of their votes weren’t recorded due to an error. Since the number of ballots he identified is greater than the margin separating Page and Berger, Berger wrote to Hayes, a closer examination of those ballots “could very likely determine the outcome of this race.” There’s no specific process in place for the state to single out specific ballots to examine by hand like Berger wants to happen. It’ll be up to state officials to decide — possibly at Wednesday’s meeting — if they want to grant Berger’s request anyway. Page has previously raised concerns with these post-election processes being handled by the State Board of Elections, noting that its work is overseen by Republican State Auditor Dave Boliek, a Berger ally. Page wants Boliek to distance himself from the process. Boliek endorsed Berger and campaigned with him in Rockingham County ahead of the March 3 primary. "That just shows a total conflict of interest,” Page said of Boliek. Boliek has declined to recuse himself, saying he doesn’t have a vote on decisions made by the State Board of Elections. Boliek appoints the members of the state and county election boards who take those votes. He also runs oversight of county election boards out of his office. But Boliek isn’t personally tasked with making decisions on recounts, election protests or similar issues. “There's nothing to recuse myself from,” Boliek told WRAL. Even if the state board votes Wednesday to decline to approve the hybrid recount Berger wants, that won’t necessarily stop Berger from requesting a hand-to-eye recount. Two types of hand-to-eye recounts exist. First, officials take a random sampling of 3% of all the ballots cast, review them, and tabulate any differences in the vote count. It’s then possible — but not guaranteed — to do a full hand recount of every ballot cast. State law says that full hand-to-eye recount can only be ordered if the partial recount identifies enough changes to the vote count that there’s a mathematical indication that a full recount could change the outcome of the race. “If the results of the hand-to-eye recount differ from the previous results within those precincts to the extent that extrapolating the amount of the change to the entire jurisdiction (based on the proportion of ballots recounted to the total votes cast for that office) would result in the reversing of the results, then the State Board shall order a hand-to-eye recount of the entire jurisdiction in which the election is held,” state law says."

3/18/2026 9:29:19 AM

So I guess you guys have heard that Robinson came clean on the porn.

Shocking. God what a waste of a candidate. So far though, I’m a Republican for Stein.

3/20/2026 4:32:04 PM

Not totally clean. He claimed he did have a porn addiction, but then suggested that the posts on Nude Africa could be someone impersonating his writing style.

3/20/2026 4:40:52 PM

Sure, I believe him. . .

BUT MY TOMMY GUN DON'T!!!

3/20/2026 7:30:27 PM

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mother-of-fourth-grader-shocked-by-horrific-letter-from-maga-congresswoman-to-son-you-attacked-a-child/ar-AA233OOR

the worst fuckin’ people

5/13/2026 12:34:53 AM

With Republicans like rjrumfel, who needs Democrats?

5/13/2026 8:49:34 AM

That's probably about half the people who still post here. A rational person can see the reasons for the shift. Why can't you?

5/13/2026 9:04:45 AM

magas and evangelicals aren't rational people

5/13/2026 9:37:37 AM

Trump said that countries and oil companies would rather travel an extra 45 minutes to dock in Texas and buy our oil rather than use the Strait of Hormuz.

It’s not quite an extra 45 minutes travel time. It’s more like 21 days one-way, to travel the additional distance over the Strait of Hormuz to Texas.

To hear someone say things like that, and still blindly believe whatever they say, is not rational.

5/13/2026 10:21:04 AM

^^^, ^^ That's rich coming from members of a party in which AOC has a realistic chance of winning the presidential nomination. The electorate stays center right while the Dems drift farther to the left and think our problems can be solved by killing more babies, leaving our borders wide open, and putting Trans books in school libraries.

5/13/2026 11:30:12 AM

Your focus is in the wrong area.

5/13/2026 11:32:43 AM

^

5/13/2026 11:42:47 AM

Ok heel, you’re starting to sound like the man himself. Let’s break down your statement above. You said that democrats believe they can solve problems by killing more babies. What problems are they trying to solve by killing said babies? I too, believe that abortion is wrong. But in a country as free as ours, everyone should have the right to make the wrong choice.

Don’t just say something because you heard it from a radio host. Tell us what you mean.

5/13/2026 12:14:39 PM

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"But in a country as free as ours, everyone should have the right to make the wrong choice."

#Amen

5/13/2026 12:35:42 PM

^^What rights do the children in their mother's womb have? They have no choice or freedom when an abortion is performed. Our Constitutional amendments and the Declaration of Independence mention a right to life. This right is by nature violated when a defenseless child is murdered in the womb without their consent. In the US, an estimated 1.2 million children had this right violated last year alone. You complain about the hundreds or thousands of lives lost in foreign wars while millions of children are slaughtered on our own soil.

5/13/2026 3:09:35 PM