Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses what we think are some interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s a week in review: Tucker out: Garland Tucker III will no longer challenge U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., in the upcoming Republican congressional primary. The Raleigh...
Republican U.S. Senate challenger Garland Tucker has made double-digit gains on incumbent Thom Tillis, according to new polling data from the Tucker camp. Tucker’s team is presenting the data in a series of private presentations to Republican donors. Two months after officially announcing his challenge of the first-term incumbent, Tucker trails Tillis, 40% to 30%,...
Supporters of Sen. Thom Tillis and challenger Garland Tucker are focusing much of their attention on the opposing candidate's writing.
Raleigh businessman and author Garland Tucker officially entered North Carolina’s 2020 U.S. Senate race during an appearance Wednesday, May 8, on Sean Hannity’s nationally syndicated radio talk show. Tucker will challenge first-term incumbent Sen. Thom Tillis in the Republican primary next March. “I think the two issues that are going to be key in this...
The July 4 holiday has always provided Americans a welcomed pause for rest, reflection, celebration, and renewal. Never more so than in 2018. Less than two years ago, we endured one of the bitterest, most divisive elections in our history. Partisan rancor has now reached an unparalleled level and shows no sign of diminishing. Public trust...
The ink is dry, but the howling from the Left continues. The 2017 tax reform law is in place and working as advertised — lower personal and corporate taxes, more money in the pockets of Americans, repatriation of billions of dollars of corporate profit, and an economy that will be robust. Still, the Left’s version...
The sober realization is that socialism is still challenging freedom — even with the irrefutable mountain of evidence of its abject failure and toll on humans everywhere it has been tried. Thanks to John Locke, we have a roadmap for freedom and opportunity that any of us can follow. Socialism has crippled nations and impoverished...
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to list his political heroes, and you are likely to hear names such as Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and William F. Buckley. Those looking further back in time might list Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Fewer people are likely to mention Nathaniel Macon or Josiah Bailey, unless they have read the latest book from Raleigh author Garland Tucker. Tucker, chairman and chief executive officer of Triangle Capital Corporation, profiles important figures from American history in the book Conservative Heroes: Fourteen Leaders Who Shaped America, From Jefferson to Reagan. Tucker discussed the book with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
RALEIGH — Ask a conservative to compile a top list of American political heroes, and you’ll not be surprised to see names such as Thomas Jefferson, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. The names Nathaniel Macon, Josiah Bailey, and John W. Davis might seem less obvious. But all six men are profiled in a Raleigh author’s latest book, Conservative Heroes, the topic for the John Locke Foundation’s Monday Shaftesbury Society luncheon.
A Raleigh author’s latest work spotlights leaders from Jefferson to Reagan who have stood for limited government devoted to establishing order and preserving liberty.
Thanks to Tucker’s research and exposition of the often-neglected 1924 campaign, readers catch a glimpse of the early signs of major change that paved the way for today’s ideological partisan battles.
