The new General Assembly in 2019 will not only look different, but it could also act differently. The N&O's Colin Campbell noticed the lack of fireworks during the recent lame-duck session, "Their lame-duck session has been lacking the fireworks I’d expected in the last hurrah of veto-proof GOP rule. The main agenda item was voter ID. And with a...
Tobin Getz & Tom Looney join Tyler in studio to talk about the Old North State award that Tom recently was awarded, what has changed in Wilmington's economy since we first began discussions on this show, and where we go from here
Emily Badger at the New York Times is reporting on the controversy surrounding legislation being pushed by Republicans in a lame duck session in Wisconsin. She highlighted the main argument being made by the Republicans, "State legislators are the closest to those we represent,” Scott Fitzgerald, the majority leader in the Wisconsin Senate, said in a statement after Republicans voted on the...
Some big developments this weekend in the 9th district. On Friday afternoon, Congressman-elect Mark Harris announced on Twitter that he would be open to a new race if election fraud was, in fact, found in the 9th district race... http://bit.ly/2EeYExl Early Friday night, The vice chairman of the Bladen County Board of Elections, Jens Lutz, has resigned his position, Jens Lutz confirmed...
We have a countdown to a showdown to a avoid a shutdown in Washington. Yesterday, Congress sent President Trump a short-term spending bill to move back the deadline for a partial government shutdown, setting up a big fight over the border wall just before Christmas. The legislation sets a new deadline of Dec. 21. Without the short-term bill, the spending deadline...
Dan McCready, the 9th district Democratic congressional candidate, has officially retracted his concession, "I didn’t serve overseas in the Marines just to come home to N.C. and watch a criminal, bankrolled by my opponent, take away people’s very right to vote,” McCready said. “Today I withdraw my concession and call on Mark Harris to end his silence and...
The surprise surge of Donald Trump & Bernie Sanders on both sides of the political aisle gave credence to a growing movement in America. President Trump & Bernie Sanders both made an economic pitch to "forgotten Americans" who feel they are being left behind in the current economy. A new book from Oren Cass called "The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for...
I joked yesterday that there might not be any real voters in Bladen County. Now I'm wondering if at the end of all this there might not be any legitimately elected officials. WBTV's Nick Ochsner is reporting that a THIRD possible ballot mill has popped up in Bladen County, "Records released by the North Carolina State Board of Elections...
Senator Thom Goolsby joins Tyler to talk about the recent decision by the UNC board of trustees decision to put Silent Sam in a museum on campus, what the law says about monuments of remembrance, what he will be advocating for at the December Board of Governors meeting, & is he confident the BOG will vote to follow...
Yesterday was a cornucopia of news from the 9th district in North Carolina. It started with WSOC's Joe Bruno who reported that two women had come forward to say they had been paid to pick up ballots, "A second woman Channel 9 spoke with on Tuesday said she was paid by an electioneer in Bladen County to pick up absentee...
