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Also here are some decent local political sites...

Dailey Heymaker

Carolina Plothound

Beaufort Observer

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I have spent to date $300 on this campaign not counting gas to go driving to places to hand out flyers/time calling, etc. For someone cut back to working 3 days a week, that is a huge blow, but I hope it to be worth it.

Someone once described veterans as "someone who wrote a check to their country with an amount of :up to & including my life". I hope to bring that same level of dedication to Dr. Brannon. I don't have much, but what I can give, I am....

Please look inside yourself & see what you can do also, it's a heavy pack to tote alone.

Statement of Paul Valone, President, GRNC:

"Why did the NRA-PVF endorse Thom Tillis while GRNC-PVF recommends Greg Brannon?"

GRNC does not make "deals" for candidate evaluations, nor does GRNC-PVF advocate the likely winner in the interest of inflating our "win" ratio. Unfortunately, the NRA does both, including having a so-called "friendly incumbent" policy which favors a supposedly pro-gun (but often mediocre) incumbent against a superior challenger.

Although NRA-ILA director Chris Cox claims, “As Speaker of the North Carolina General Assembly, Thom was instrumental in passing two of the most comprehensive pro-gun reforms in state history,” in reality the NC Senate under President Pro Tem Phil Berger did the heavy lifting on House Bill 937 and, to a large extent, HB 650, the two reforms in question.

In 2013, Speaker Tillis caused restaurant carry to be stripped from HB 17, passing a gutless bill out of committee and nearly triggering a floor fight from his own caucus, which uniformly supported restaurant carry. Only under mounting pressure from both GRNC and from within the Republican caucus did he finally relent and have Representatives Jacqueline Schaffer and Justin Burr draft HB 937, which in its original, mild form expanded concealed carry only to restaurants and within closed compartments of locked motor vehicles at institutions of higher learning.

Only once the bill left the House did the Senate turn it into (more than) what we have today. Thanks in large part to Sen. Berger and Judiciary Chair Buck Newton, the Senate version dramatically expanded concealed carry to include municipal parks (cities were trying to stymie previous legislation), all public educational institutions, parades and funerals, state government parking lots, and more.

In particular, the Senate version of HB 937 included repeal of our archaic, Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit law -- a law the Charlotte Observer found actually allows felons to retain previously issued permits. Under pressure from the NC Sheriffs' Association and the Governor, however, Tillis refused to simply concur with the Senate version, insisting the bill go to a conference committee to strip the measure.

Tillis' insistence on a conference committee nearly killed the bill. Only under significant pressure from GRNC and others, and after negotiations weakened purchase permit reform, did the Speaker move the bill -- and then only a few days before adjournment of the session. Although the bill would technically have remained alive for the 2014 session, in reality politicians would have refused to move it in an election year, just as they did previous restaurant carry legislation.

Did Tillis move the bill? Yes, albeit reluctantly. Would he be better for gun rights than Kay Hagan? Most likely. But is he a Second Amendment hero? As Hertz is fond of saying, "Not exactly."
Statement of Paul Valone, President, GRNC: "Why did the NRA-PVF endorse Thom Tillis while GRNC-PVF recommends Greg Brannon?" GRNC does not make "deals" for candidate evaluations, nor does GRNC-PVF advocate the likely winner in the interest of inflating our "win" ratio. Unfortunately, the NRA does both, including having a so-called "friendly incumbent" policy which favors a supposedly pro-gun (but often mediocre) incumbent against a superior challenger. Although NRA-ILA director Chris Cox claims, “As Speaker of the North Carolina General Assembly, Thom was instrumental in passing two of the most comprehensive pro-gun reforms in state history,” in reality the NC Senate under President Pro Tem Phil Berger did the heavy lifting on House Bill 937 and, to a large extent, HB 650, the two reforms in question.

In 2013, Speaker Tillis caused restaurant carry to be stripped from HB 17, passing a gutless bill out of committee and nearly triggering a floor fight from his own caucus, which uniformly supported restaurant carry. Only under mounting pressure from both GRNC and from within the Republican caucus did he finally relent and have Representatives Jacqueline Schaffer and Justin Burr draft HB 937, which in its original, mild form expanded concealed carry only to restaurants and within closed compartments of locked motor vehicles at institutions of higher learning. Only once the bill left the House did the Senate turn it into (more than) what we have today. Thanks in large part to Sen. Berger and Judiciary Chair Buck Newton, the Senate version dramatically expanded concealed carry to include municipal parks (cities were trying to stymie previous legislation), all public educational institutions, parades and funerals, state government parking lots, and more. In particular, the Senate version of HB 937 included repeal of our archaic, Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit law -- a law the Charlotte Observer found actually allows felons to retain previously issued permits. Under pressure from the NC Sheriffs' Association and the Governor, however, Tillis refused to simply concur with the Senate version, insisting the bill go to a conference committee to strip the measure.

Tillis' insistence on a conference committee nearly killed the bill. Only under significant pressure from GRNC and others, and after negotiations weakened purchase permit reform, did the Speaker move the bill -- and then only a few days before adjournment of the session. Although the bill would technically have remained alive for the 2014 session, in reality politicians would have refused to move it in an election year, just as they did previous restaurant carry legislation. Did Tillis move the bill? Yes, albeit reluctantly. Would he be better for gun rights than Kay Hagan? Most likely. But is he a Second Amendment hero? As Hertz is fond of saying, "Not exactly."

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Got to talk with Dr. Brannon and really like the cut of his jib. I was a little jaded at first but he seems like the kind of person I want representing me. Gave a hefty donation and let him place a big sign at the end of my drive way where a few thousand cars pass every day.

Going to be calling and talking to as many as I can about him & hope everyone else does as well.

http://i59.tinypic.com/11b3vd4.jpg

I could pull the lever for Harris if he won the primary.

But I don't see that happening.  This is a 2 horse race

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In case anyone is interested, there is a debate on tonight on channel 14 at 7pm should you like to watch.

Not sure if Tillis will be there but if he is this'll be more fun than a BBQ dinner.

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Just going to leave this here......
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2014-north-carolina-senate-brannon-vs-hagan


BRANNON BEATS Hagan in latest PPP poll! Tillis LOSES to Hagan in same poll! Wow! I just found this! It was updated 3 days ago! According the "extreme right wing source" (note dripping sarcasm), the Huffington Post. The probability of Hagan beating Tillis is 67%! The probability of BRANNON beating Hagan is 54.7%!

We're going to win this thing!

"You did not follow the game in Missouri. The Democrats wanted to run against Akin, so they attacked Akin heavily during the primary campaign, to sucker Republicans into voting for Akin, and it worked. It brought Akin up in the polls from third to first, and the Democrats got the opponent they wanted.

Part of the psych ploy is that Republican voters tend to want to circle the wagons around the Republican that the Democrats are attacking.
If they had wanted to influence the primary against Tillis, they would have bought ads attacking him through entities not so blatantly connected to Hagan.

They put their own identity front and center because they were trying to create a pro-Tillis backlash among less informed GOP voters rallying to the candidate under Democrat attack, just like was done in Missouri"

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He crushed it again on GB this morning.

I LOVE how he cites the Constitution for what the federal government's role is.

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Well, I already have 2 folks I won't be voting for in November.

I wonder if we can get Brannon to run in the primary anyway?

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No doubt...  I think that it is pathetic that only 15% of 6+ million people too the time to vote.....  WTH....