Thursday Rally Calls Attention to Republican Issues
Supporters gathered in the parking lot of Pinecrest Plaza Thursday for the Americans for Prosperity's "Obama Failing Agenda Tour" bus stop Photo by Glenn Sides.
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North Carolina will be a battleground state in November’s election, and a sign of that came rolling through town Thursday.
Representatives from and supporters of Americans For Prosperity gathered for a short rally Thursday afternoon in the parking lot of Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines.
Their message: It’s imperative for individuals to get involved, learn about the issues, and discuss them with undecided voters.
“North Carolina is one of the top 10 swing states in November,” said Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, a national grassroots organization that serves and supports local tea party organizations. Tea party members advocate less government and a strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
Moore County has a large and active tea party group, Moore Tea Citizens. Several members of it attended the meeting.
The tour, which coincided with this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, made 16 stops across the state.
“This is a great week to talk about policy,” said Dallas Woodhouse, AFP’s North Carolina director.
Woodhouse urged the crowd to “talk about current policies put in place by President Barack Obama that are failing America.”
“We need to be able to look at our grandchildren and tell them when we were looking at falling off the economic cliff, we did everything we could do.”
Americans for Prosperity is committed to educating citizens and engaging them in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and national levels.
Martin told the crowd that 92 percent of U.S. voters have decided who to vote for in November, and that the other “six to eight percent” are the key voters.
Speakers told a crowd of about 100 people that it is imperative that they know and understand the key election issues and speak openly and honestly about them to their fellow voters. Those issues are spending, government regulation and taxation.
“When you go to bed at night you have to ask yourself, ‘Have I done everything I can do today to preserve liberty?’” Martin said.
It was a message that rang true for Southern Pines resident Alan Majka, who said he attended the rally to show his support for AFP and find some way to participate in the lead-up to the election in November.
“We’ve got to change the direction of the country,” Majka said. “If the incumbent president wins again, we are sunk. There will be no turning back.”
Contact Tom Embrey at (910) 693-2484 or tembrey@ thepilot.com.
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Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
“We’ve got to change the direction of the country,” Majka said"...
Before criticizing POSTUS'O for spending us into prosperity and providing thousands of jobs for the auto industry, take a look at the balance sheets for Moore County. That is a good course of action Tea Patriots ... or is that just too close to home?
coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago
they are all republican too
coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago
in the meantime check out the number of new businesses that have opened in Moore county since January. 120
teufelhunden 8 months, 1 week ago
Most have temporary part time jobs at min wage...
Noluv4thugs 8 months, 1 week ago
"spending us into prosperity" Toda. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dumbest comment ever!!!
I'm a libertarian, the last thing I want to hear is our government is spending us into prosperity. Our future, my child's future etc. have been mortgaged by the last three presidents. Time to get rid of all of them. We need 30-50 yr. olds who have a vested interest in America's future and not just in lining their pockets. Our political system might be the best in the world but doesn't mean that it is not a crappy system.
teufelhunden 8 months, 1 week ago
Some people have stopped looking and are just going with govt assistance apparently.
MikeNC 8 months, 1 week ago
In the meantime Coffeecreme, Check out today's job report nationwide ! Diane
coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago
always glass half empty Diane
concerned 8 months, 1 week ago
Link to the video of this rally
http://www.widgetserver.com/syndication/l/?p=1&instId=0a3af867-ea06-4db2-b21a-57b6978287ea&token=2b2b9fd020c1984018459ab31a1790b4c44635b400000139a2a9e5a1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mooreteacitizens.com%2F8%2Fpost%2F2012%2F09%2Fsept-6-afptppmtc-rally.html
MikeNC 8 months, 1 week ago
Coffeecreme: Go tell your half empty glass response to the almost 23 MILLION people Unemployed in America. Diane
coffecreme 8 months, 1 week ago
Diane: like you care about anyone but yourself
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
Well hello again, boscoe50. Say, maybe you can go back on line to the Wikipedia website and see if it says who the personell director is at the Federal Government who is hiring all these career politicians. When you come across that name, please let us all know.
MikeNC 8 months, 1 week ago
Coffeecreme: It's apparent, we've never met.Diane
alladat1 8 months, 1 week ago
Just stopped by to see if any of the "big fish in a small pond" had gotten a life yet - evidently no. I'm surprised none of you have solved the worlds problems by now. Go do something nice for your neighbor.
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
Almost, a civil intellectual blog ... until a newbie jumps into the fray => Noluv4thugs
boscoe50 => glad you didn't leave the boards .... try this link - try not to eat before hand...
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
wdd101st 9 hours, 10 minutes ago Toda, I thought you ran as a republican. Maybe a Rino. I am surprized that you are qouting from the democrat talking points ...
First and foremost I am a Christian with logical application to religion. I don't like the avoidance to solving our problems that apparently surfaced 3.75 years ago. Republicans are a dated lot, thinking all our nations problems began in 2009. They forgot about the previous 8 years.
I am voting for POTUS'O not because he is the best choice but the only choice for working people and those who live on the margins of society. Not everyone was born with a gold spoon in their mouth or inherited gobs of money. As a young man growing up in Vass, I can identify with being poor and living week to week. My parents worked hard to scratch out a living, unlike those who never had to worry about paying a bill. Call me what you will...that the American way of free speech, I also can make my own decisions and one that I'm told to make by a bunch of aristocrats.
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
The first item on Mitt Romneys' agenda is to eliminate Affordable Health Care ... now go to the Massachusetts Health Reform page Link Here and compare the differences between AFHC (Obama Care) and Romney's plan that was enacted. As my Indian ancestors used to say, "he speak with forked tongue.
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
Newbies to most boards post threads that are mostly offensive and without thought or merit. The Pilot Blogs are for any intelligent person who cares to voice an opinion without being condescending. Everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as they don't attack me or others personally. Personal attacks have and will be confrontational.
And the next "puppy mill" that is raided in North Carolina, Thank Jerry Tillman for voting the bill down.
If no one takes on unethical politicians now, our county and debt will be unconscionable. Unlike most on these boards, I research information as opposed to twaddle.
Spew out nonsense and the result is always the same! by Tommy Davis
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
Interesting article about National Health Care which goes as far back as Theodore Roosevelt plan in 1912: Analysis of health care. National Health Care
It took almost 100 years and numerous presidential candidates who stumped on NHC until President Obama took the initiative to implement Affordable Health Care in the US. One of the few democracies without health care for all citizens.
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
boscoe50, have you been able to identify who has been hiring all the career politicians yet? No rush, I'll wait for your reply.
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
Jim you might find this site interesting... http://www.opensecrets.org On both sides of the isle.
justpassingby2 8 months, 1 week ago
The problem is Congress has a nearly single digit approval rating, but when asked about THEIR individual reps, they score approval ratings way over 50%, (don't remember the exact number, maybe closer to 70%. Just more bipartisan nonsense that both parties use to keep the non-thinkers backing THEM while disapproving of their policies. JimR is a perfect example of them. Read his thoughts (used loosely) about small govt., he openly admits that obama has been awful but he will vote for him because he be one of dem dar democrets! Congress just the same. Your guy is an idiot and my guy is the next coming of Abe himself!
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
Toda, thanks for the link.
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
boscoe50, I was really just having a little fun with you. Career politicians are around so long because WE hire them every time they are up for re-election. So as Pogo says, "We have met the enemy and he is us". Enjoy the football. Hope your team wins.
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
justpassingby2, as old Ronny used to say, "Well, there you go again". I think you exaggerate just a little by saying I find the current administration "horrible". You also are wrong that I "be one of dem dar democrets", I'm not. There are a list of things that the Obama administration has caused me to be disappointed about. One of them is that they have not been tougher on their opposition. Another is that we are still in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Korea, in Germany, in Japan etc., etc, etc.. . I'm pissed we're still talking about Gitmo, give the place back to Cuba and come home. But the things that have been accomplished, with NO cooperative support from the right, is the reason I'll vote for his re-election in November. I'll cast my vote knowing that it will make absolutly no difference in what happens to this country. Should Romney win, it will take about one week for him to realize that he can't run a country like he ran a business. He won't be able to fire people who disagree with him. After that realization, we'll be right back where we were in Nov. 2008, starting over again. I would rather vote to continue the very modest improvements that have been accomplished in the last 3 1/2 years, with the Republicans doing everything in their power to stifle it.
ericfriar 8 months, 1 week ago
I am amazed and stunned after reading the comments posted here referring to republican obstructionism. Lest we forget a majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, even though it was obtained fraudulently by allowing some 1000+ felons to vote in Minnesota. That gave us Senator Al Franken and the all important 60th vote for Obamacare. If it were for the republican obstructionism, the national debt could very well be double what it is now. However, lets talk about all the budgets voted on by the senate... ZERO, lets talk about the 30 jobs bills passed by a republican house in the last 18 months, voted on in the senate... ZERO. Lets talk about the REAL unemployment numbers..... 11.8% If it was a republican president, you can bet we would be talking about those who quit looking for work. Or the 50% increase from 30 million to 47 million reliant on food stamps. What liberals fail to understand is that even if you taxed the uber rich 100%, you would still not come closer to solving the debt problem. However, if you created 23 million new taxpayers with jobs, and each one of them actually paid $1000 dollars a year in taxes, you would end up with 2.3 billion in new revenues each year, not to mention the savings in unemployment benefits being paid and the massive reduction in food stamp dependency. Our only taxing problem is not enough taxpayers.
ericfriar 8 months, 1 week ago
I am also very entertained by the liberals who cry out at Romney's lack of working folks and the needs of those on the fringes of society. Funny you heralded the John Kerry who has more money than Romney.
I had to snicker about the jobs that were saved in the auto industry. No. We didn't save any auto industry jobs.... what we saved were the fat cat pensions and Union bosses who negotiated at the tip of a spear with the auto industry for those pensions. I was more than amused at the Democrat Convention attendee who held up a Ford sign at the convention. FORD didn't take a bailout, and managed to survive.
ericfriar 8 months, 1 week ago
Since I am getting off on a rant here, let me completely air it all out.
Play along and here me out.
We all pay the same rate for the same electricity locally.
We all pay the same rate for water locally.
We all pay the same for a loaf of bread, gallon of milk, etc.
You get the point.
So why shouldn't it be perfectly acceptable for all of us to pay the same amount in taxes to live in the same country. We all are protected by the same military, served by the same local fire and police forces. We are all served by the same federal government????
I don't understand the FAIR SHARE argument. Sounds like children quibbling over who got a nicer toy and think the other child should be FORCED to share his toy.
What if you were told that you had to pay 20 dollars for a gallon of milk simply because you could afford it, but the guy in line behind you gets paid 5 dollars for getting milk because he cant afford it?
AFCHIEF 8 months, 1 week ago
Lets start at the beginning of Obamas FAILURE TO LEAD
Oil Spill Timeline from RightChange on Vimeo.
skylinefirepest 8 months, 1 week ago
JR44....modest improvements under Obama == 6 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT and we'll have to raise the debt ceiling AGAIN in November!!!! Wow, that's just about more modest improvement than we can stand. I'll take Romney as even an experiment over the proven failures of Obama anyday!!
SH59 8 months, 1 week ago
AFCHIEF, it's not that Obama failed to lead, it's how the republicans refused to do anything that may have been good for the people. All they cared about was their hate for Obama. No wonder they have such a low rating.
AFCHIEF 8 months, 1 week ago
Sh59, and Harry Reid has been just an Angel in allowing bills to be voted on in the Senate. His office is the black hole when it comes to sending bills to the floor to be voted on.
Americans should have seen the writing on the wall when Obama failed to LEAD during the Gulf Spill. He was already in campaign mode from day1 when he took office. Instead of playing so much golf maybe he could have been a LEADER and had some serious joint meetings with congress and senate and gotten something accomplished! But NO, his leadership style was to blame Bush and to start a class warfare
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
ericfair: "I am amazed and stunned after reading the comments posted here referring to republican obstructionism." You may also be blind and out-of-touch. You really need to go back and read the quote from Mitch McConnell, made Oct. 23, 2010, in which he said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
AFDolt, You evidently missed the video of President Obama in his wet suit, swimming to the source of the oil leak and applying the concrete seal that stopped the leak. All the regular news sources carried the coverage live. Maybe you were watching Fox News and missed it. Later, he hoisted a banner that read "Mission Accomplished" and addressed all the shrimp fishermen on the Gulf Coast aboard a shrimp trawler while dressed in his Navy Seals outfit. Did you miss that as well? See how stupid things sound when you just make stuff up.
AFCHIEF 8 months, 1 week ago
Jimruss, as usual you start out with the name calling and then proceed to offer Nothing. Keep your liberal blinders on. You know why Jimmy carter loves Obama, it's because now he is not the worst president in history
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
"I had to snicker about the jobs that were saved in the auto industry. No."
So it wasn't just General Motors, all of their supplies in this country and others that benefited from injection of capital to keep the company moving forward.
Toda 8 months, 1 week ago
"skylinefirepest 17 hours, 20 minutes ago JR44....modest improvements under Obama == 6 TRILLION IN NEW DEBT and we'll have to raise the debt ceiling AGAIN in November!!!! Wow, "
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
AFCHIEF: So you don't want to be honored by the old Mayan word for "Chief" anymore? OK, so be it. It's probably a good thing, because I did get a few nasty e-mails from irate Mayan descendants. I think we have to let history decide who is the "worst president in US history". But I will say that a guy who resigned the job in disgrace should be the front runner. But, of course, I'm not a Republican so I'm probably wrong..
JimRussell44 8 months, 1 week ago
boscoe50, hey, we agree on something.
teufelhunden 8 months, 1 week ago
Awesome piece by Michael Goodwin published on 9/10/2012 in the New York Post. Everyone should read it.
skylinefirepest 8 months, 1 week ago
Toda pull your head out from the shady side...you want to give Obama tons of credit that he doesn't deserve but you think spending 4 trillion in eight years of Bush was bad?? With the tons of money that we spent after 9-11?? Obama doesn't have the best interests of this country at heart. He admits it in his own book for Pete's sake!!! I honestly don't see how any patriotic American could vote a second time for this piece of trash!