Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review
Published: Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 @ 3:24 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Cooper shared the following statement on the passing of Senator Hagan
Published: Monday, October 28th, 2019 @ 1:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Sen. Kay Hagan refused to address reporters at last night's post-debate press conference for good reason. Hagan amazingly claimed that it was "appropriate" for her family's company to profit from nearly $390,000 in taxpayer-funded stimulus money that came from the very same stimulus bill she voted f
Published: Monday, October 13th, 2014 @ 5:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you are like me, and don’t watch much TV — the senatorial debate last night gave you a great recap of all the “fun” you’ve missed.
Published: Wednesday, October 8th, 2014 @ 10:57 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The 2009 so-called "stimulus" passed by the Congress was one of the biggest budget-busting, deficit-growing, big-government, cronyism-enabling scams to ever come out of our capital city.
Published: Tuesday, September 30th, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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We reported about an "interesting" real estate deal involving Senate candidate Thom Tillis and some high-dollar donors to his campaign.
Published: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 @ 9:29 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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It's Time For Kay Hagan To Explain To North Carolina Why She Sided With President Obama Over Our State's Law Enforcement Community By Voting To Confirm Debo Adegbile. If Senator Hagan Is Willing To Completely Ignore North Carolinians By Supporting Such A Flawed And Controversial Nominee, She...
Published: Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 @ 5:27 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Two Thom Tillis press releases for the time it takes to find and read one.
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 8:43 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I had to convince myself repeatedly that this was NOT a Saturday Night Live skit. The drive-bys subjected us AND the candidates with some moronic, leftist questions.
Published: Tuesday, September 9th, 2014 @ 1:03 am
By: Brant Clifton
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As Republicans continue to portray Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan as joined at the hip to an unpopular President Obama, and with congressional approval ratings in the ditch, the freshman senator’s best campaign strategy is to avoid national issues, political observers say.
Published: Friday, August 22nd, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There is a forgotten group of college students. These are the students who start out at a community college, leave it to earn a bachelor's degree, but drop out along the way.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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In the U.S. Senate, Kay Hagan has voted for President Obama's liberal agenda a staggering 95 percent of the time, which includes casting the deciding vote for ObamaCare.
Published: Saturday, May 24th, 2014 @ 8:55 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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2008: Hagan Promised A "World-Class" Health-Care System For Veterans Now: Hagan Is Silent On The VA Scandal
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:35 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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During her 2008 U.S. Senate campaign, Kay Hagan promised North Carolinians she would be a "moderate" and "independent" voice in Washington.
Published: Monday, May 19th, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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If North Carolina Democrats were to gain some legislative seats this year, state and national pundits would probably spill gobs of ink - or at least fill gobs of pixels - with elaborate explanations of how the party began to recover its footing in a state it once dominated.
Published: Tuesday, March 11th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Since 2008, Kay Hagan has sung the praises of Barry Obama’s full-frontal assault on the American people and the health care industry. She bragged about being on committees that helped write the bill.
Published: Friday, March 7th, 2014 @ 10:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Rate Bureau is back at it again, proposing a 25-35% increase for the coastal area.
Published: Thursday, January 16th, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
By: Bill Cook
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Below are responses from real people across North Carolina describing how the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is making health insurance far less affordable while often forcing them off their current plans.
Published: Sunday, December 29th, 2013 @ 7:32 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Wake up, people: An insidious corporate conspiracy is afoot, and it has a nefarious goal - forcing you to buy health insurance policies that you were choosing to purchase anyway. At least that’s what Sen. Kay Hagan and other Democrats scrambling to defend Obamacare after its clunky rollout are...
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rush calls her a "genuine idiot." We've previously characterized Kay Hagan as a nitwit because of her stand on ObamaCare.
Published: Sunday, November 17th, 2013 @ 11:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's a far cry from those heady days in 2008 and 2009 when a certain former state senator from Greensboro aspiring to be a US senator was telling us that we were going to eat every bit of our ObamaCare, and we were going to like it.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 6:01 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Strange behavior can always be found in politicians, you just got to know where to look.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2013 @ 12:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I saw a commercial on TV the other morning that nearly made me spew my Cheerios. Some vaguely-named council or coalition was running an ad praising US Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) for the following: "Creating Jobs", "Making college affordable".
Published: Sunday, July 14th, 2013 @ 5:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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College students all over our state and country went nuts for Kay Hagan and Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012. They voted for these two libs and worked tirelessly for them in both cycles. How did this devotion get repaid?
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2013 @ 4:00 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Kay Hagan -- our junior US senator AND NY Senator Chuck Schumer's favorite sock puppet -- has been getting a lot of kudos from the MSM for utilizing social media as part of her constituent relations operation.
Published: Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 @ 11:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, August 29, 2011, two days in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Emergency Management team continued their exhaustive work, but took a break to meet with the politicians, who visited Beaufort County to witness the destructive power of the massive storm.
Published: Monday, September 12th, 2011 @ 12:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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