NC GOP

So does the clock at left stop? I didn't receive a response from Sen. Dole's pitiful Constituent Services Letter Generator^TM. No autopen-signed missive to help me pretend that I heard from my senator.

What I did receive this afternoon was a fax from Communications Director Hogan Gidley of the Elizabeth Dole campaign regarding the petition that I delivered last Friday on behalf of 1265 readers of Firedoglake, Pam's House Blend, and BlueNC who signed the petition. The petition requested that the North Carolina senator ask Linda Daves of the NC Republican party to stop running the color-aroused anti-Obama ad called "Extreme," which tries to draw some sort of connection between Dem gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore (both endorsed Obama) and Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

What was Dole's response? I have no idea, since the response is from Mr. Gidley, there's no way for me to know whether my senator actually read the petition. The letter I received is an exercise in predictable spin; it doesn't address the NCGOP's ad or her party's involvement and endorsement of playing to people's biases.

Pam and BlueNC members are delivering petitions requesting that Elizabeth Dole tell the NCGOP's Linda Daves to stop running the race-baiting anti-Obama ad.

Date: Friday, May 2

Time: 10:30 AM

Location: Dole's Raleigh Office: 310 New Bern Avenue,
Suite 122, Raleigh, NC 27601

See the The Blend and BlueNC for more.

On Friday morning I'm heading to Senator Elizabeth Dole's Raleigh office with a delegation of NC bloggers and concerned citizens to deliver a petition requesting that the U.S. Senator put a stop to the color arousal/racist ad floated by the NC GOP and its head Linda Daves. John McCain has already said he can do nothing about it. Dole doesn't even give a damn:

Dole said in an interview she didn't want to get involved.

"I am concentrating on getting my work done here in the Senate, and I'm just not going to get into refereeing a third party political ad that has nothing to do with my race," she said.

(cross-posted at dKos)

As most of you know, the North Carolina Republican Party managed to persuade four television stations to air its despicable ad attacking Barack Obama. Unfortunately, we didn't know who they were. Well, now we do, courtesy of the Charlotte Observer.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright said some horrible things about America. He is evil. Forget about the good he has done in his life. He is evil. I saw it on CNN.

Just incredible. Watch her Friday appearance on MSNBC -- the video is below the fold.

McCain supposedly pressures NC GOP to cease and desist.

While the Primary race between Clinton and Obama has gotten pretty vicious lately, I was always convinced it's nothing compared to the stuff Republicans would be spewing around the general election. Turns out I didn't have to wait that long, thanks to the NC GOP and their head witch, Linda Daves.
Even John McCain and the Republican National Congress declared today how deplorable the latest stunt of the NC repugs is.

Earlier this year, former Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, a humble man according to many, decided to throw his big hat into the North Carolina gubernatorial ring. At the time, Mr. Orr was employed by Art Pope as Puppet-in-Charge of the NC Institute for Constitutional Law. Rightly concerned about the appearance of being in the pocket of Puppetmaster Pope, Orr announced he would stop serving in that executive director role so he could run for governor, which he is now doing. In fact, Mr. Orr already has a fancy new website and a busy fund-raising agenda. He was in Winston-Salem this week, in fact, collecting checks at the home of Mr. & Mrs. William Graham, who are also buddies of the Puppetmaster.

All of which raises one very big question. How can Bob Orr, who is not independently wealthy like Fred Smith* and Bill Graham, afford this big campaign when he doesn't even have a job? Or more to the point, is Art Pope paying Bob Orr to run for Governor of North Carolina?

One of the honorables in Raleigh, Representative Larry Brown, was kind enough to grace my mail box with this delightful message:

I cannot tell you in a kind way what you liberals can do with all your waste that would make the hog lagoon issue look like a diaper. Enjoy while you can. Post that on your web page and come visit me anytime. Larry Brown (emphasis added)

Send him some love? larrybr@ncleg.net