After a week mired in controversy over comments linking fellow Republican lawmakers to cocaine-fueled sex parties, western N.C. 11th District U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn issued a statement blaming the media for misconstruing his words. “Corruption and unethical activities exist in Washington,” Cawthorn tweeted. “It’s an indisputable fact. If you don’t think that’s true, you’ve not...
The executive director of the N.C. Judicial Standards Commission was pushed out of her role by top Republicans in North Carolina’s judiciary after going far beyond her role as a nonpartisan administrator. She attempted instead to create and enforce new policies on judicial political activity, according to information received by Carolina Journal. North Carolina’s two...
The top Republican in the U.S. House blasted U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-11th District, in public comments after the freshman western N.C. congressman received a private tongue lashing from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise. Cawthorn angered House Republicans when he claimed he had been invited by fellow lawmakers to...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated. Johnston County attorney Kelly Daughtry, a Smithfield Republican, made a big splash when she announced she would seed her own campaign for the new 13th Congressional District with $2 million of her own money. Daughtry is the daughter of Leo Daughtry, a former member of the state House...
Republicans in the N.C. General Assembly are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to limit state court oversight over future congressional redistricting. Republicans filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the court, asserting the Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court violated the elections clause of the U.S. Constitution when they invalidated the legislature’s congressional maps and imposed...
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, N.C.-11th District, is finding himself on the receiving end of brutal criticism after his recent comments about Russia. Carolina Journal recently reported that Cawthorn is facing tough questions on attendance, driving, and Russia, which invaded Ukraine about three weeks ago. Now there’s more. According to The Associated Press, Cawthorn “offered a...
Despite overwhelming support for North Carolina to remain a Right to Work state, the movement toward enshrining the policy in the state constitution has been static. Seventy-five years ago this week, North Carolina enacted the Right to Work law, which banned making union membership a condition of employment and codified a broad anti-union consensus across...
Former President Trump endorsed 26-year-old Bo Hines Tuesday March 14 for the newly created 13th congressional district. Hines played one year of football at N.C. State before graduating from Yale, and lives far outside the district with a scant political resume. In a statement from former President Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump called Hines a...
Shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Congress via video Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis told N.C. reporters that Vladimir Putin and members of his regime must be held accountable for the numerous acts of war, aggression, and human rights abuses perpetrated under his watch. “I for one believe that we should use every...
Wake County Republicans are hoping new state Supreme Court rulings that hurt GOP political efforts by forcing changes to political maps could be used to help Republicans in the state’s largest county and seat of state government. Republicans held a rally trying to force the Democratic County commission to work with the Wake County legislative...
After months of sustained body blows from millions of dollars in negative ads from the Ted Budd-supporting Club for Growth, former Gov. Pat McCrory began punching back hard Thursday. He’s trying to land a knockout punch on Congressman Budd based on his statement and votes concerning Russia and Vladimir Putin. “As Ukrainians bled and died,”...
