Live-Blog with Colonel Dennis Nielsen - Question Thread

what message do you want people to take from your campaign? If you want your voice to be heard, what will you be saying?

Linda, very nice meeting you on Sunday. .
First let me say I will try to answer all your questions. If I do not have to be careful with my spelling and grammar I can go much faster, so forgive my English OK here is the answer to the softball question. Top Three the economy, the economy the economy. Al the others will not work well until we can get control of our economy. OK I will tell U about 1 and 2. Education and illegal immigration. My views on these are expanded on my web site. I believe in choice in education and having a combination of public, private and charter schools, money to follow the child so low income parents have the same chance to educate their children the more affluent has. Economy: state spending increased 42 % since 2001, we must turn that around I will do that by lowering spending, transferring some state jobs/agencies to private industry. Immigration: I will follow the law and get tough on employers more on my web site as this is getting too long.

CCW permit holders commit less crimes per capita than any other group including law enforcement. You know if the Chinese never invented gun powder over 4,000 yrs ago and we never made a gun or a combat airplane or a carrier maybe we would all be better off, but that is not how it is. Law Abiding (LA) gun owners must be allowed to protect themselves and their families as we get into a much more dangerous world. The commercial where the burglar breaks in and they call ADT is silly by the time they” send help” the wife and kids will be raped and murdered; I won’t allow that to happen to my family. Gun owners must be responsible for their weapons and we must allow all that want weapons who are LA to have them.

While not a resident of North Carolina, I have visited it many times and think it is a great place. In Florida, the gun laws are quite specific: If you feel threatened by someone, you can take whatever course of action you deem necessary to protect yourself and your family. The State Legislature has also just enacted a new law that allows individuals to carry guns in their vehicles onto an employer's worksite. My basic philosophy is that "I would rather have a gun and not need it, than to need it and not have it!"

Ms Brunette, nice to talk with you again. Did you attend the bash on Sunday I hoped I would see you there as I know you don’t look like a flower. Where you there? Choice; right to abortion is a law and I will uphold the law as governor.

Too much R or D we must get away from party and concentrate on people. I offer a place/home for conservative D’s there are millions out here

Perhaps it is time to look beyond blue and red (in moderation) ad copare our specific views with any given politician. Integrity should play a greater part than single-issues. I consider myself very liberal socially but fiscally conservative; on the WRAL comparison I came out closest to Nielsen and way off line with my true-blue party regulars.

Glad you could make it. I have more questions.

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

Sorry, never heard of you. Where are you from. What did you do to help NC. What is your stand on raising my taxes ?

I did not know the gov served on committees but budget and finance, probably some mental health comm, and disaster prep

The CCW laws need t obe relazed, It doesn't make sense I cannot have a weapon in my car when I go to the landfill

Nice meeting you also and everyone else too.

As Drlefty knows wars are ugly things, we wage them to win and do not play fair. We should hire private contractors but they must be the RIGHT contractors. Some are too close to teh administration that can be a problem.

Ofcourse this is nothing new Air America in Viet Nam and others have gone on for a long time.

Not as familair as I should be and that is teh same for most gov candidates.

It seems we treat those wit hdisabilities, mental illness and substance abuse underthe same umbrella. I would divide these inot 3 seperate programs to insure each got the care they need and all are treated with respect and dignity.

There is a lot more to say on this. leadership is another key to teh fix

As gov I would support the current laws in place which allow a woman t ochoose.

Or are you asking my persoanl views?

Is that really a picture of you????

There are alot of jobs but just in the wrong place. In RTP they hire many persons from other countries becasue they cannot fill the jobs here. Some are 100K +

The problem here starts with education you can't fill high tech "good" jobs with HS dropouts. We must first fix teh education system. I am afraid we have lost a whole generation that we may never recover.

Some will have to go where teh jobs are.

Finally small bus is the lifeblood for our economy. tax incentives lowering teh bus tax rate to 5% will help and allowing certain tax deduction for small bus

Glad to see ya here. Let's have lunch again

Don't you like drlefty he is a great guy.

I would allow any citizen who has time to join in a group. These would be citizesn not poitical party hacks or goverment cronies.

Average citizens have many answers to the problems in our state and i want to hear from you.

It would not be long commitment but take one issue and solve it and bring your answers forward.

We need more open government

I say no to Dell and Google, thye brought 200 and 1000 jobs (not yet but are supposed to) but I don't see how thsi helped all of NC. Those in teh east did not get anything from it.

Tell me what you think about guns I am interested.

Abortion you don't like the current law?

Thank you for yor comments.

They as you put it are here becasue they want to be here.

I don't need any help.

I have explained this to you the best I can as a candidate for office. My personal views on this and other topics are my personal views and just becasue I am running for office doesn't require me to let anyone into my thoughts and inner beliefs. I have stated my official position.

I have always respected you and enjoy our bantering back and forth so keep trying you may wear me down.

Cheap shot and untrue. True that I just signed up this afternoon, not true that my opinions have been out there for a looooong time (mydailyrecord.com/opinions/eric benson). I've know Denny for a long time and we disagree often bt that does not blind me to integrity and public service. I am here to participate in an open forum regarding the direction of our state.

Let's focus on the responsibilities and AUTHORITY of the governor of North Carolina.

Where in the Constitution of the United States or the Sate of North Carolina does it say anything about government interference in personal medical/family/sexual decisions?

I would love to discuss this and related topics at length but lets not let it get in the way of a gubernatorial discussion.

You're a good sport and I appreciate you taking time to share your thoughts and answer our questions.

Thank you for having me.

I still love you as much as I always did