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Kay Hagan Endorsed by AFL-CIO and NCAE
Congratulations to Kay Hagan and her campaign for receiving the endorsement of the AFL-CIO and the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE). They jump on the bandwagon with Gov. Mike Easley and former Governor Jim Hunt. Easley called Hagan one of the bet Senate candidates in the country and Hunt said,
Kay Hagan is one of the strongest and most effective leaders in North Carolina.
Hagan is obviously pleased with the endorsements. They can mean money in the campaign coffers, boots on the ground and voters pulling the lever.
I’m proud that this group – which represents so many working families across our state – has decided to support my campaign. Now more than ever, North Carolina’s families are being asked to work harder and receive less, while at the same time, Elizabeth Dole has continually received salary increases. That’s just one way in which it’s clear just how broken Washington is, and I’m running because I’ve gotten results for the state by bringing people together to solve everyday problems.
Hagan will face Jim Neal in the May primary.
I've been very impressed with the folks I've
corresponded with and spoken with from the Hagan campaign. I've made it clear that I plan to support Jim Neal with my vote, but if Hagan wins in May I think she's putting a team together that can take down Elizabeth Dole.
They've read BlueNC and check us daily. They know many of us are backing Neal and yet they are reaching out to us. On some days that's about as scary as walking into a den of lions. That takes guts.
I know, I know....FISA/telcom immunity, etc. Well, if she wins in May we'll have to work hard to educate her on why she's wrong on that one. :D
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Ditto
I am very disappointed that they would endorse
someone who believes in shielding corporations from prosecution for their crimes.
Hagan has stated her support for granting retroactive immunity to telephone companies guilty of hundreds if not thousands of violations of FISA.
Apparently there are two laws: Those for corporations and those for the rest of us.
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Liberalism as a badge of honor!
No apologies, no excuses.
Kay is definitely a strong candidate
As I said on another post, I was in the labor screening meetings the other day. I think that what impressed me the most was her campaign plan. She is really going to take it to Liddy and make the race competitive. I think we'll all be pleasantly surprised.
Perhaps few will agree with me, but my first criteria for a Democratic candidate is electability. Short of someone being an out and out elephant in a donkey's clothes, I realize I might agree and disagree with a given candidate over a variety of issues. So personally, I am not as into purity tests and such. (while casting NO aspersions on those who are)
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Somewhere between purity and pragmatism
lies the road to real progress. Finding that road requires an understanding of the strengths and weakenesses of those two extremes.
that's a great sentiment, scharrison.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
At some point
you have to stand on principle. Hagan made it plain she has no intention of "falling on her sword" for such things.
I don't want her to do that either, I want her to use the sword on Republicans. If I have to explain to her that "the pointy end goes toward the enemy", then she is of little use.
At a recent event she stressed that people like me need to understand how the game is played in Washington.
If she wants to play games with people's lives and livelihoods, then I would suggest Monopoly™ and Risk™, not the United States Senate.
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Liberalism as a badge of honor!
No apologies, no excuses.
To clarify...
I am not saying you are anti-gay or are using "electability" in that manner. I am referring to how the word is bandied around by the NC machinery.
That said, there is purity and then there is purity. I have stated quite firmly I will support if she wins in the nomination. Before that I will all I can to see she is defeated.
Liberalism as a badge of honor! No excuses, no apologies.
Liberalism as a badge of honor!
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"electability" is code word for
we don't want the gay guy. Sorry, I don't buy it. Neal can win and Hagan has made it quite clear that she must "work with" the Republicans. I found her attitude very Pelosi-like.
The time for "working with" the Republicans has ended. I want accountability, as in special prosecutors, public hearings and indictments. I do not want, and this country cannot stand, any more people who make excuses for law breaking.
It doesn't do us any good to replace Dole if her replacement votes to excuse corporate and executive felonies.
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Liberalism as a badge of honor!
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I don't buy electability for Neal or the assumption that
somehow Neal is THE populist/progressive candidate with no record to back it up.
A New York banker running for US Senate from a recently adopted Chapel Hill address? How does this equal populist?
I don't know which confounds me more - the political naivete or the willingness to sink more resources into this futile campaign to the detriment of other important races.
I do revel in Neal's lack of political orthodoxy, but not to the point of defeat at the polls.
I take comfort in the fact that this race will excite more new voters to the polls, and maybe that was the intention all along.
As opposed to Hagan's actual statements that she
will work hard to "reach across the aisle" to the Republicans and that she believes in an expanded FISA bill that strips away Constitutional protections while protecting corporate criminals.
So, my choice is someone with no record, or someone who is telling me that she will sell us out in the name of collegiality and bi-partisanship?
Liberalism as a badge of honor! No excuses, no apologies.
Liberalism as a badge of honor!
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YAY KAY
I'm with you all the way!
Hey, that rhymes
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