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News Poll Shows 78% think we are worse off now with Obama.
On the Wednesday Citizens Speak TV show on Charter Channel 20 a sample poll of 64 people had 50 saying we are worse off and only 14 saying we are better off.
This is not too far off from the national average. We thank each person that spoke their mind. This was taken in about 9 minutes at the close of the show. That is about 7 calls per minute that jammed my phone so that we had to use Harry's to complete the show!
posted on July 15th, 2010
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Longwood, Fla.-based Waste Pro USA announced that it has acquired Southern Waste Disposal of Meridian, Miss., and Wyatt & Bowman Waste Container of Asheville, N.C.
According to its website, Southern Waste Disposal provides hauling, container and landfill services to commercial and residential customers in east central Mississippi and west central Alabama. Wyatt & Bowman is a waste container firm servicing the Asheville, N.C., area.
Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. Wonder if Bob Christy is the attorney for these deals too. Stanley has really been dethroned as garbage czar. Find this article at:
http://www.wasteage.com/news/Waste-Pro-USA-Acquires-Firms-in-Miss-and-NC-20100618/index.html
70% of the mortgages today are held by the tax payers via Freedie Mac and Fanny Mae. Just another part of Obama's plan for total take over. He mananged to change the stock status on GM stock to now the government owns a large portion.
Look Out BP your day is coming and next will be the total energy industry.
Please Read The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency by By: Ken Blackwell Ken Klukowski .
Look out
Obama is showing weakness to the world???????
Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban
By DEXTER FILKINS
The Afghan president has been pressing to strike his own deal with the Taliban and Pakistan because he has lost confidence that the United States and NATO will win, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/12/world/asia/12karzai.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print
Obama is worse than Bush -Yes Yes Yes but where is the outrage?????????
June 11, 2010
Obama Takes a Hard Line Against Leaks to Press
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — Hired in 2001 by the National Security Agency to help it catch up with the e-mail and cellphone revolution, Thomas A. Drake became convinced that the government’s eavesdroppers were squandering hundreds of millions of dollars on failed programs while ignoring a promising alternative.
He took his concerns everywhere inside the secret world: to his bosses, to the agency’s inspector general, to the Defense Department’s inspector general and to the Congressional intelligence committees. But he felt his message was not getting through.
So he contacted a reporter for The Baltimore Sun.
Today, because of that decision, Mr. Drake, 53, a veteran intelligence bureaucrat who collected early computers, faces years in prison on 10 felony charges involving the mishandling of classified information and obstruction of justice.
The indictment of Mr. Drake was the latest evidence that the Obama administration is proving more aggressive than the Bush administration in seeking to punish unauthorized leaks.
In 17 months in office, President Obama has already outdone every previous president in pursuing leak prosecutions. His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press.
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Now who is off on a tangent saying that they are wonderful. Matt I think the more you talk the worse it gets. YOU do not know how to accept a compliment and how many times have I called in and said I agree with you but then you would follow up with some remark about how I would be nice to you and then talk about you. Hey man since you have objections to my terms, I will invite you to an open mike on "Citizens Speak". So there you have the opportunity to settle this once and for all.
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Bryan the tension comes from the constant ridicule from Matt that is a personal attack. I do not know why he is that way but I have my thoughts on it. Please note he started calling me names in this post. He attacked me after a post where I simply clicked "like". Then he and his side kick started a personal attack on my character. That speaks louder than a debate or anything I can say. My offer stands and I am not trying to avoid anything.
Bryan Freeborn commented on Matt Mittan's wall post:
"Don...I have observed tension between the two of you over the last few years. After a recent post by Matt I thought that it would be good radio to have the two of you in a civilized format debate each other. I do not think a free for all style "open mic" would benefit anyone. It's Matt's show and he will dominate that format. This is a great opportunity for you to demonstrate the high level of integrity that you have suggested you have and Matt does not.
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Matt answers but only partially. If the show is open mike why do we need 5 questions and then 5 more questions. Why do we need a "*^# stirrer" to make the show interesting. OPEN MIKE LIVE QUESTIONS, no "Freaking panel" just one person that has the ability to hear the callers interaction with producer. Just me and you Matt. If you must have Bryan there then we can tag team. Me and Chad against you and Bryan.
Matt Mittan commented on his wall post:
"OMG Don - you ARE an idiot. My show IS an open mic... what do you think we do... put guest mics on some kind of massive delay that gets channeled through some room full of editors that will cut and splice your comments to benefit me, before they go out over the air? ROFL... Bryan is impartial because he is a @#$* stirrer and will smack both of us around equally... would you prefer having a 'crew' of people with you Don? Maybe Chad, Kathy and others? Bring a freakin' panel dude. I don't care. LOL"
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When did Matt and Bryan become a team and Bryan contols what Matt offers?
Bryan Freeborn commented on Matt Mittan's wall post:
You have a TV show where you get to open mic it. We are offering you a chance for real debate. Take it or leave. "
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Bryan Freeborn wants to be in control. Wonder why these folks want to control debates and not just have an open mike. Does big boy Matt need a support person. How about one on one and let the people ask the questions.
Worth the time to read...learn these figures.
Paul Ryan Wins Dallas
By William Murchison on 4.1.10 @ 6:09AM
DALLAS -- Ed Feulner is ebullient. And that's -- if you please -- when people around him are saying things like, "We are witnessing the greatest wave of collectivism since the New Deal."
From the rostrum in a Dallas hotel ballroom, the founder and president of the Heritage Foundation surveys a charged-up crowd of 600. Not just a little charged-up; on the contrary, a lot charged-up. These are people who mean business. It shouldn't, theoretically, be this way. Aren't these people conservatives, broadly defined, and hasn't the president of the United States just signed into law a manifestly un-conservative health care "reform" bill, one that clamps the federal vise -- hard -- on 17 percent of the U.S. economy, at an estimated cost of $2.4 trillion? That would be the point. The president has done precisely that. The right is revved up -- ready to rumble. That would go far toward explaining Feulner's ebullience.
An aging newsman is sitting at a front-row table at a Heritage event. The crowd, on a mid-week morning, has come to hear Wisconsin Republican Congressman Paul Ryan and see whether he can shine some light through the gloom and dismay. The newsman trades observations with all kinds of people who never thought it would come to this, but now that it's come to this, have no intention of sitting back to see what course the gods of Olympus have set for America. To hell with Olympus. We've got people here ready to part with cash and leisure hours to set Congress and the administration straight concerning their, shall we say, misjudgments on health care and other fine points of policy.
A nationally known merchandising executive and his wife are on my right. They'd never heard of Heritage until after the 2008 elections. They've thrown in their lot with the growing number who can't see how health care squeaked by but, now that it's done so, want to start over and do the job right.
A successful, middle-aged white dude from the "right" part of town tells about the hours he and his wife have put in walking the "wrong" part of town in behalf of a conservative, yes conservative, African-American candidate for Congress. I ask if they haven't gotten some stares. Quite a few, he replies. Too bad -- when his son gets home from college this summer, Sonny will be enlisting in the same cause.
Tea Party people, or sympathizers with the movement, are there in abundance, brewing abundant pots of trouble for the liberal agenda on this warm pre-Easter day. There might be a cynic or two or ten in the audience. Let 'em alone. People Power is flexing its muscles and its enterprise.
YOU CAN'T TELL ABOUT A PRESIDENT who plays his emotional cards close the vest. How confident is he, really, in his ability to ram through Congress the rest of his program, from financial regulation to cap and trade to immigration reform?
On signing Obamacare into law, Barack Obama was exultant and nothing like conciliatory to his supposedly soggy, washed-up opponents. The so-called Party of No and Congressman Ryan have few rewards to dangle before prospective recruits: save perhaps the reward of helping make the world safe for human freedom. No other enticement, seemingly, has much purchase on the minds of those whom Heritage has brought together for confabulation.>
Matthew Spalding, Heritage official and author of the best-seller We Still Hold These Truths, puts it to a pre-lunch session that "We are at a turning point in our constitutional history…We don't know what is going to happen." The "deep debate" going on isn't about health care or cap and trade, it's about "America and where we are going."
We have to "go back to principle -- it's as simple as that, because things that have been true up to now are still true." Americans sense that they "don't govern themselves any more." "It's late in the game, but it's not too late to get involved. I think things are set up in almost a perfect way and that a major shift could occur."
Paul Ryan, a hero already to the audience on account of his unsparing assaults on the premises of health care reform, Obama-style, has no doubt a momentous choice lies ahead of Americans -- to continue in the progressive rut being worn in the soil, or…wait a minute, that's no choice.
"We are quickly approaching a debt crisis in this country." Our present trajectory endangers our fiscal stability, such as it is. In a few decades, to pay for the government we've ordered up, the bottom -- bottom! -- tax bracket will be 25 percent, the highest bracket 88 percent. This, according to Congressional Budget Office calculations. Climate legislation alone, as contemplated by the administration, would require another $1 trillion in spending. And this on top of stupendous shortfalls in our ability to finance Social Security and Medicare without reconfiguration of the pay-in, pay-out scheme.
"We are reaching a tipping point in this country." The figures cascade from Ryan's fluent tongue. Right now 20 percent of Americans get 75 percent of their income from the federal government. An additional 20 percent get 40 percent of their income from the government. Sixty percent get more services in dollar value than they pay in taxes. If things don't change, "we're going to be a different kind of country" -- to wit, "a European-style cradle-to-grave" society, wherein "more people depend on the welfare state than on themselves."
None of which is set in concrete. Barack Obama and the Democrats, it seems clear, poked a hornet's nest when they said boo-hiss to alternative ideas for making health care coverage more general and more affordable. "They were not interested," Ryan says, "in setting up a true market for health care." It's not about health care, you see. "It's about ideology" -- the ideology of state control. Want more state control? Sit back; watch it happen.
Ryan offers few hard and fast predictions as to what the upcoming, pre-election months may hold, save for struggle. He doesn't think the Democrats are prepared to muscle through cap and trade, as they muscled through Obamacare. Card check? Nope. Immigration "reform"? They'll try.
Ebullient Ed Feulner bounces back to the microphone to sum up. He's "selling" Heritage: which means selling what Heritage has ever been about, namely, liberty and limited government. He foresees an expanding marketplace for those commodities as Americans, like the 600 seated before him, latch onto the challenges and perils just ahead. New supporters and donors are falling all over themselves as it were to help Heritage help The Cause. Someone else -- lots of someones -- must have figured out the "tipping-point" business.
A newsman whose memories of political conflict go back, to the '60s thinks to himself this kind of occasion doesn't bear the hallmark of past conservative slumps, say, '74 and '76: partly because the health care came conspicuously in defiance of public opinion; partly because of the energy in the room; partly because so much energy (no government intervention necessary) flows from the tall, young, astoundingly articulate congressman invited to highlight the stakes in the game.
Paul Ryan, to the newsman whose memories of political figures go back to LBJ and Goldwater, looks very much like the real article: the leader conspicuously missing from Republican, much less conservative, affairs this past decade or so. It hurts not a bit that he started in politics as a staffer for Jack Kemp, the king of supply-side economics.
We'll see how it all shakes out. Meanwhile, in the newsman's judgment, the last word belongs to, of all people, Rahm Emanuel -- a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Yes. Here's one American crisis, the battle against the welfare state, to which volunteers are flocking, hoping to waste not a minute; trying to turn things around while there's time. Which there still is.
William Murchison is a columnist for Creators Syndicate and author of Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity, to be published by Encounter Books on March 1.
The following is from Ada Fisher, NC first Black National Committee Person for the NCGOP
I keep being asked about how we get the black vote and I keep saying the same thing--speak to issues of relevance to the black community that are on our radar. The article below has good points which may be valuable if you are serious about expanding the reach and base of this party which I love. It is about Jobs, Jobs and more Jobs. In this state health care in the black community is a bigger issue than many appreciate and education is a concern with many willing to consider educational options for the system is broken for our kids but resegregating it through neighborhood schools will bring us more of the same.
For Congress I hope the gentleman in Colorado wins, and if I were betting I'd put my money on Scott in South Carolina who though without the money has the backing of the folks there who have proven time and again their commitment to the minority community. As a black woman I'd like to see Princella Smith win in Arkansas given her youth, track record for the party and chance to make history as the first black woman in the US Congress.
I would admonish us that politics as usual and endorsements of candidates or under the table support for candidates in contested primaries is a smoke screen that all can see through. This undermines the integrity of our party. Going out to find candidates when others are running who are well qualified doesn't speak well for some of the players. If you want to see blacks involved more in the party then support their candidacy with your time, talent and treasure.
Subscribe to BlackPoliticsOnTheWeb which is free. Though I may not always agree with what is being said, it is important to keep ones fingers on the pulse of the community.
Black GOPers in Dixie congressional races
By Hastings Wyman
Southern Political Report
Representatiave Haire's reply to a Citizens of Haywood County. This is the attitude of the elected D's in Raleigh. Wake up Republicans, Independents, and Tea Party, we must get people that will listen to "we the people".
Haywood County Representative Haire's reply to a question on his stand regarding the Federal Government's mandate that we buy health insurance and if we do not, the IRS will come to enforce the Federal Mandate. Below, please read his response.
As a State Representative, I had no vote or say in the Federal Legislation. May I suggest that you study the bill rather than rely on the half-truths that are on t.v. and the radio. I appreciate your sharing your comments with me. Phil Haire
Sara Jane Lennard, Legislative Assistant Rep. Phil Haire, 919/715-3005
It appears that Haire is washing his hands of this mandate. He must not have the contact information for Hagan, Burr and Shuler in Washington DC. He "had no say in the Federal Legislation." Guess he just kept quiet. I called Hagan, Burr and Shuler about this Federal Legislation. I had a say! Where was Phil Haire? Did he support the legislation by his silence. Do you think he really read the bill that he had "no vote or say in?"
However he chastised the person who asked him this question! What made him think the person who asked the question had not studied the bill?
Makes you wonder doesn't it? Do you want Phil Haire to continue to represent Haywood County? I don't!!!!!! .......Jonnie............
The following is Ada's Story. Real life and true. As Sarah Palin said it is not retreat but reload time.
March 30, 2010
Confessions of a “Selfish” American Conservative
When it was put on my heart as a child that I would be a doctor and render service to those in need, I wondered how I would pay for my journey and who would come to my aid. While many of my peers were out having a good time and squandering away their time, talent and resources I buckled down to study, then gave up the marching band which I dearly loved to work in a physician's office to begin saving money for college and ultimately medical school. I went to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro through work-study, loans for service and awards from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to help integrate that institution. I even shined shoes for my white female classmates and cleaned more than a toilet or two in my search for cash--all of which seems beneath today’s students too often in search of a free ride.
In 1966, my father whose church pension was $100 monthly received only $107 per month from Social Security after more than thirty years as a pastor. The SS student supplement for me and my brother was $75 each per month until we were 21 which we gave to our parents while we went to work. My father wanted to pay for my medical education, not appreciating that my tuition exceeded three times more than the $2400 he took in retirement. Loans and grants with repayment for service criteria and work doing anything legal still left me with a $54,000 debt in 1975 for my medical education.
In my residency, I ran into tax trouble not understanding business or financial realities like you can’t actually spend your salary -- for taxes and other things such as FICA which I knew little about was being deducted. Knowing nothing about saving for retirement I not only tried to learn more, I sacrificed to set aside monies from those already taxed while I planned to live comfortably past 65. Eventually I would appreciate that business is the bed rock of America and would invest my already taxed dollars in the stock market taking great risks to help businesses which would provide jobs for Americans.
I entered the Public Health Service to help repay some of my government assistance, followed shortly thereafter by a stint in the John Umstead Hospital of Butner, NC as the Alcohol Detoxification Director serving a 16 county catchments area for less money than the private sector paid. Then it was off to Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. followed by Amoco Oil Corporation where I found my salary impounded by the federal government to get money given me for loans which had already supposedly been paid off in service through seven years out of my career when I could have made millions. I had no right of recourse from the government which had acknowledged my service but cited a sentence in the loan noting that loans would be repaid only if Congress appropriated the money which it hadn’t. The government got my service for free and took its money as well as pound of flesh. Meanwhile I continued to give over $400 per month to the United Way while employed and donated generously to charities of my choice not those of the government.
Now we move fast forward to find as a baby boomer the retirement age had already been upped for social security even though it wasn’t so when I started putting my money in it. My stock market losses weren’t sufficient for tax rebates though my capital gains would be stolen in taxes with government consent to fund those who hadn’t made plans for a rainy day. 401K and IRA’s which were for my future have lost so much value that they aren’t sufficient for retirement or my personal support. Defined benefits plans which I had in two places have seen one not offered at 65. Fortunes of health which forced my retirement against my will on disability for lack of accommodations only to find those monies heavily taxed and converted to social security at age 62 which is less than I received on disability. Add in that age discrimination means the likelihood of finding meaningful work past 55 is a joke.
So what should we do? Stand up for America and resist the continued massive redistribution of wealth which is Obamacare and all of its social engineering. Since Congress won’t vote to bind itself to the same rules it makes for other citizens, throw the bums out. And if like me you’ve drunk the tea—taxed enough already, then appreciate that we are in need of a new revolution for we are truly facing increasing taxation without representation.
Wake Up America! Let the revolution begin again!
Dr. Ada M. Fisher is A physician, Former County School Board member, licensed secondary education Teacher in mathematics and science as well as the NC Republican national Committee Woman. Contact her at P. O. Box 777; Salisbury, NC 28145; telephone (704) 223-2321; DrFisher@GETADOCTORINTHEHOUSE.com
Don Yelton files to Run for NC Senate Seat 49.
EPA gives $545,000,000 for light rail and lets CTS keep discharging TCE into our ground water in Ashville.
Published Fri, Jan 29, 2010 05:22 AM
Modified Fri, Jan 29, 2010 05:53 AM
State gets $545 million to beef up rail service
DURHAM North Carolina will start spending $545million in federal rail money right away, state officials said Thursday, to create more than 5,000 jobs and get trains running faster and more often between Charlotte and Raleigh.
Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, came to Durham's new Amtrak depot to announce the state's share of $8 billion in stimulus money approved by Congress to start building a national high-speed passenger rail network.
"First and foremost, this is a jobs program," Jackson told about 200 people gathered in the depot, a renovated red-brick tobacco warehouse. "Americans will be put to work at every step of the way through construction, manufacturing and maintenance. And once rail lines are up and running, communities like Durham will have even greater economic possibilities."
Eugene Conti, secretary of the state Department of Transportation, said his agency would quickly put together a detailed schedule for about 30 projects to straighten curved tracks, add double tracks, upgrade stations, build bridges to separate train and automobile traffic, and expand the state's fleet of locomotives and rail cars.
"This is about putting people to work in engineering firms, design firms, ... all kinds of small businesses across the state, to see each and every project come to life as soon as possible," Conti said.
The projects will include new bridges to replace rail crossings at Hopson Road in Research Triangle Park - with construction expected to start in a few months - and at Morrisville Parkway in Cary.
Passenger stations, platforms and parking lots will be expanded at rail stops inCary, Burlington, Kannapolis and High Point. Improvements are planned for Charlotte and Raleigh rail yards.
By this summer, the DOT plans to add a third daily round-trip train between Raleigh and Charlotte, and the new federal money will add a fourth train to the schedule in coming years. Track improvements will speed up trains at spots where they have to slow down now, and by 2015 the top track speed is expected to increase from the current 79 mph to 90 mph.
New commuter options
David King, general manager of Triangle Transit, said local commuters will have new options when trains run faster and more often. "We'll have four opportunities to leave Raleigh and get to Durham, and vice versa, every day," King said.
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, said Triad-area residents and businesses will take advantage of better connections to Raleigh and Charlotte.
"And it's going to ease congestion on the roads and lessen our dependence on foreign oil," Hagan said in a telephone interview.
North Carolina's funding includes $520 million to improve passenger service between Charlotte and Raleigh, as U.S. Rep. David Price of Chapel Hill disclosed Wednesday night, plus $25 million for four projects to ease rail traffic congestion.
Devices called universal crossovers will make it easier for trains to switch tracks without having to slow down for other trains. One of them will be built in West Raleigh, and the other three will be on CSX tracks north of Rocky Mount.
Jackson, the EPA administrator, touted the environmental benefits of increasing rail travel.
"This is an investment in cleaning up the air we all breathe and reducing greenhouse gases," she said. "Clean, efficient travel options help us cut dangerous amounts of pollution from our skies, lowering the risk of health threats and cutting medical bills."
North Carolina will seek grants for more improvements between Raleigh and Charlotte, including new stops in Hillsborough and Lexington. And the state will push for $3.7 billion to build a new line north from Raleigh to Richmond - cutting 35 miles from the current route, which goes through Rocky Mount - on which trains will travel at 110mph.
bruce.siceloff@newsobserver.com or 919-829-4527
Ralph Roberts shows true colors and calls Don Yelton a right winger and yet says that he, Ralph, is conservative. Just what is conservative to Ralph except not wanting open meetings and to be televised in a board meeting. For details e-mail Don Yelton at yelton221@charter.net. See in Ralph's own words if you want.
Subject: list of Senate bribes.
With the bill hanging in the balance, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) won a provision exempting his state from paying the usual share of costs for new Medicaid patients. The deal, which critics have dubbed the "Cornhusker Kickback," is expected to cost the federal government $100 million over 10 years.
- Before a close vote last month, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) won an even larger break for her state -- an estimated $300 million in extra federal spending, in a move now derisively called the "Louisiana Purchase."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) made sure that certain insurance companies in his state are off the hook from a new$7 billion dollar tax.
- Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) got his kickback -- a $100 million bonus for the University of Connecticut… to do withwhatever they want.
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) was "persuaded" to drop his concerns after Senator Reid offered his state a $10 billion grant for "community health centers"-money that could easily be funneled to facilities that perform abortions.
- Three states -- Pennsylvania, New York and Florida -- all won protections for their Medicare Advantage beneficiaries at a time when the program is facing cuts nationwide. (add up the votes in these three state and tell me it is not about buying votes)
- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) won a promise from Reid to support his plan to expand eligibility for health insurance.
- The Senators from Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming will get the "Frontier Freebie" -- they'll see an increase in Medicare payments to hospitals and doctors, because "at least 50 percent of their counties are ‘frontier counties,' defined as those having a population density less than six people per square mile."
- Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate health committee, got a provision inserted to increase Medicare payments to certain "low-volume hospitals" in Grinnell, Keokuk and Spirit Lake, treating limited numbers of Medicare patients.
- Even the Democrats themselves are starting to complain about this obvious "Cash for Cloture" bribing going on. When Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) couldn't get past the reporters swarming Ben Nelson on her way to the cloture vote, she quipped, "I know I'm not as important as Senator Nelson. I didn't get the money for my state. I was too stupid."
The word is getting out about these OUTRIGHT BRIBES for votes. And with that public scrutiny, several Democrats are wavering in their support for this bill -- we need to ensure that they feel the heat so that they will see the light!
posted on December 29, 2009
Easley investigation and Tony Rand.
It is getting very interesting with Tony Rand and LEA, (the company that sells stuff to NC government). The stock holders are connected to the political scene and include Easley, Purdue and others and was started by a Republican from Wake County.
Board members are not Typett and he was with DOT until he was set aside. Then we connect with Holdings the investigator for the Feds and his father who was connected with Rand and Holdings Father's bank. It just so happened that Rand bought stock for 60 dollars and sold it for 700 dollars. Just in a normal day in Raleigh...
Don Yelton December 21, 2009
Keep the subpoenas coming please, Thanks to Burr for saying let the investigator roll and see it through.
WRAL posted the following at http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/6622557/
More subpoenas issued in Easley investigation
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Dec. 15 2:07 p.m.
Updated: Today at 8:15 a.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Federal investigators still want more answers about coastal real estate developments assembled by two brothers with ties to former Gov. Mike Easley and whether anyone made payoffs or gifts to state regulators.
Three Department of Environment and Natural Resources employees have been subpoenaed to appear later this week before a federal grand jury, agency spokeswoman Diana Kees confirmed Tuesday.
The U.S. Attorney's Office is seeking information similar to what it asked for from six other current or former department employees served with subpoenas last month.
"We will continue to cooperate fully with the federal investigation," Kees said in an e-mail.
The subpoenas served Dec. 8 upon Kim Colson, John Dorney and Jeff Schaffer represent the latest in dozens served this year by prosecutors wanting more details about a wide range of activities surrounding Easley, his wife and associates.
Easley, a Democrat who left office 11 months ago, hasn't been charged with any crimes, although a local prosecutor is examining whether he or others broke state laws based on evidence uncovered in a weeklong State Board of Elections hearing in October.
Federal prosecutors want the employees, who could arrive at the Raleigh federal courthouse Wednesday at the earliest, to provide any documents on four developments put together by businessmen Gary and Randy Allen.
Easley and his wife bought a lot in one of the developments – Cannonsgate in Carteret County – in 2005. Documents show the couple received a $137,000 discount on the lot.
They also want the workers to give them any paperwork showing whether they gave or received remuneration from 19 individuals or businesses, including Easley, the Allens and McQueen Campbell, once Easley's political ally who has said he piloted dozens of private flights for Easley.
A lawyer for Gary Allen said last month the brothers did nothing like that and the projects received their required state permits in a lawful manner.
According to Kees, Dorney is an environmental program supervisor in the state Division of Water Quality. Colson is an assistant director within the division who used to work in its aquifer protection office, and Schaffer is eastern operations supervisor in the department's ecosystem enhancement program.
Gary Allen testified before the elections board Oct. 27 that a $50,000 check he wrote to the state Democratic Party in advance of the 2004 election had no relation to the eventual approval of a state permit he sought for a boat ramp at Oyster Harbour in Brunswick County. Gary Allen has given more than $136,000 to the state party since 2002 and gave $4,000 to in late 2003 to Easley's campaign, according to campaign finance records.
Oyster Harbour is another development identified in the subpoenas. The subpoenas also seek documents from the state employees on the Summerhouse development in Onslow County and Cutter Bay in Pamlico County.
The state elections board in October penalized Easley's campaign committee $100,000 for failing to report dozens of flights Campbell piloted for Easley. A former Easley aide, Ruffin Poole, is scheduled to appear last Thursday before the board after he unsuccessfully tried to quash the board's subpoena in October.
Evidence during the board hearing indicated Poole helped with Easley's campaign fundraising. An attorney for Poole didn't return Tuesday a phone call or e-mail seeking comment.
Posted December 15,2009
NEWS IS COMING OUT TODAY DECEMBER 10 THAT BURR WILL WORK TO STOP APPOINTMENT. LETS SEE IF HE HAS GROWN SOME BIG ONES AND STOPS IT COMPLETELY --He has and Thanks to him and his staff.
Don Yelton
here it is in Black and white and now friends and enemies we must praise this man.
Burr will hold up U.S. attorney
Submitted by bniolet on December 10, 2009 - 12:10pm.
Tags: George Holding | Kay Hagan | Richard Burr | Thomas Walker | U.S. Attorney | U.S. attorneys | Under the Dome
U.S. Sen. Richard Burr does not plan to return his "blue slip" on U.S. attorney nominee Thomas Walker until the current investigations into two of the state’s most prominent Democrats are completed.
Burr informed President Barack Obama of his decision through the White House counsel’s office, Barb Barrett reports. The decision means that Burr will hold up the selection of a new prosecutor.
Burr, a Winston-Salem Republican, wants the current U.S. attorney, George Holding, to complete his probes into former Gov. Mike Easley and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards. Holding was appointed by President George W. Bush.
In a prepared statement, the senator said he supports Walker, a Charlotte lawyer who works for the same legal firm as former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, the husband of former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Burr said he told Obama his opinions in a letter in July about the nominations; his office has refused to release the letter.
"I believe Thomas Walker, who was nominated by the president to be Mr. Holding’s successor, is well-qualified to serve as U.S. attorney, and I support his nomination," Burr said in his statement.
"It is clear, though, that political contributions made by Mr. Walker to the former North Carolina elected officials currently under investigation represent a conflict of interest, and would potentially require his recusal from those very investigations," Burr continued.
Walker has been a donor to Easley.
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U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, recommended Walker to Obama, and she, too, said she wants Holding to complete his investigations.
Hagan, who has repeatedly answered reporters' questions about the case, has not said whether she will withhold her blue slip.
Burr has not returned calls on the matter, but he issued a lengthy statement today.
"Upon conclusion of those investigations by Mr. Holding, I will sign Mr. Walker’s blue slip," Burr said.
"Delaying this nomination will ensure that the investigations and potential prosecutions will proceed with impartiality, and in turn provide the public with full confidence that justice is served in an even-handed manner,” he continued. “At the same time, it will allow Mr. Walker to start his tenure as U.S. attorney free from any unfair specter of speculation and cynicism."
The blue slip is, by tradition, a form that home-state senators return to the Senate Judiciary Committee with their thoughts on judicial and U.S. attorney nominees. A senator could delay or block a nomination by withholding his or her blue slip.
Received December 10 and posted at 5:30 pm
UPDATE December 8 at 11:00 pm-Burr may propose an arrangement reminescent of Morgan-Black co-speaker deal that was attributed to the "Morgan five" which consisted of Richard T. Morgan, Harold J. Brubaker, Julia C. Howard, Daniel F. McComas and Wilma Sherill. Don't tell me that we don't sleep with dogs and get fleas. I see Burr, Fetzer, Smith and Duncan doing a lot of scratching. Look out others the fleas are jumping.
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Burr is planning on not winning if this is true.
"It begs the question, why would Burr come out and take the position of not blocking the replacement US Attorney?" [Contact info for Senator Richard Burr's office is provided below.]
CIVITAS REVIEW ONLINE
North Carolina's Conservative Voice
Burr’s Huge Misstep on Eastern District US Attorney
Chris Hayes
Dec 7, 2009
http://civitasreview.com/politicians/burrs-huge-misstep-on-eastern-district-us-attorney/
Apologies to Greensboro blogger Guarino for borrowing his title in describing Hagan’s actions (or rather inaction) on the nomination of a new US Attorney for the Eastern District of NC, but Burr’s announcement on Friday that he would not block Thomas Walker’s nomination is an even bigger misstep.
According to poll results we released on Friday, 76 percent of North Carolina voters think current US Attorney George Holding should be allowed to complete his investigations into former Gov. Mike Easley and former US Senator John Edwards before being replaced.
It begs the question, why would Burr come out and take the position of not blocking the replacement US Attorney? He has very little, if any, risk in doing so. Keeping Holding on the job is supported across political parties and strongly by unaffiliated voters. If anything, Burr runs the risk of alienating his base voters through this announcement more than he risks any backlash from the left.
Burr could very easily take the position that he will support Walker’s nomination, but only after the current investigations are complete. Widely supported, politically safe. Instead, he’s chosen the most unpopular path possible. And many wonder why his poll numbers aren’t any better.
( I do not wonder, Don Yelton) FETZER IS NOT HELPING HIM EITHER.......
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