One of the problems in Congress today is that many representatives being sent to Washington are only interested in building their partisan brand and not governing.
Democrats are likely to fare well in the court-ordered redraw of North Carolina’s congressional maps. Multiple sources tell Carolina Journal that new bipartisan congressional maps would result in seven solid GOP seats, five solid Democrat seats, and two swing districts. The General Assembly must approve new congressional and legislative maps by Friday to meet a...
Late last week, respected GOP attorney and former federal prosecutor Josh Howard filed a series of motions asking a federal court to block a planned investigation by the N.C. State Board of Elections concerning U.S. Representative Madison Cawthorn, NC-11, and his role in the January 6th, 2021, civil unrest inside the U.S. Capitol. Cawthorn is...
Three N.C. congressmen have joined 35 Republican colleagues signing on to a letter asking President Biden to take a cognitive test. “We again write to you to express concern with your current cognitive state,” reads the letter sent Tuesday to the 79-year-old Biden. Its author, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, served both Barack Obama and Donald...
On Tuesday, state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who currently represents Buncombe, Henderson, and Transylvania counties, is expected to announce his candidacy for the newly configured 14th Congressional District. The new 14th comprises North Carolina’s most western counties. Edwards has called a press conference for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at the old Henderson County Courthouse. Reached by phone...
A broad swath of voters from the center-left to the center-right view Congress as a circus of ponderous pachyderms, braying jackasses, and clueless clowns.
When Congressman Madison Cawthorn confirmed through a video that he would change congressional districts, he began by telling Republican voters in the 13th Congressional District that they could not make a wise selection for Congress without him. “I have every confidence in the world that regardless of where I run, the 14th Congressional District will...
One day after Carolina Journal first broke the news, North Carolina’s westernmost member of the U.S. House, Congressman Madison Cawthorn, confirmed via video in a tweet he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents. Critical announcement: we are taking ground for conservatism. You elected a fighter. Trust me to...
[Update / Nov. 10, 2021: U.S. Congressman Madison Cawthorn confirmed he will run in a different congressional district than the one he currently represents. In a call with GOP county chairs in his current District (NC-11), Cawthorn announced he would be running in the adjacent new NC-13, not the new NC-14, which is remarkably similar to the...
Former State Senator Andy Wells, R-Catawba, who lost a primary challenge to Lt. Gov. to Mark Robinson, became the highest-profile N.C. Republican to criticize Robinson for his comments calling school library books and curriculum that discuss alternative lifestyles including homosexuality and transgenderism, “inappropriate” and “filth.” “I opened the newspaper: Standing in the pulpit in a...
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted to cut $40 million from the federal Charter Schools Program, in a major policy shift away from the bipartisan support that charter schools have enjoyed in recent years. In addition to the funding cut, the move would prohibit federal funding for charter schools that contract “with a for-profit entity...
