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The Fight For Conservatism In North Carolina

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On Monday, WUNC posted an article about a primary race for North Carolina House District 79. This is an example of North Carolina’s deep state objecting to someone who actually represents the voters.

The article reports:

The leader of the North Carolina House Freedom Caucus is facing a primary challenger backed by one of his fellow lawmakers.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Keith Kidwell is seeking a fifth term representing four coastal counties in the state House (Beaufort, Dare, Hyde and Pamlico). He’s now facing a Republican primary challenger, Beaufort County farmer Darren Armstrong.

Kidwell says Armstrong was recruited by Republican Rep. Jimmy Dixon of nearby Duplin County, who chairs the House agriculture committee. He shared a text in which Dixon told him about the plan. “I have identified and I am going to support Darren Armstrong to file and run in the Republican primary for N.C. House District 79,” Dixon wrote in the text message.

While the text doesn’t explain Dixon’s reasoning for backing Kidwell’s opponent, Kidwell says the dispute stems from his opposition to a proposal in the farm bill that would have protected chemical pesticide companies from lawsuits. Supporters of that measure argued the companies need protection from frivolous lawsuits, but critics like Kidwell said it would put a high burden on farmers and others who are harmed by pesticides.

“They would have been protected retroactively and in perpetuity from you suing them, and I did not feel that that’s something that should have happened,” Kidwell told WUNC. “So Jimmy got mad at me for that, and went and dug up a primary opponent for me.”

These are not all frivolous lawsuits. Keith Kidwell has been a voice for voters the entire time he has been in the North Carolina House. He was one of the voices that stopped ShrimpGate, a law that would have ended the shrimp fishing industry in North Carolina.

I have lived in North Carolina since 2013. The Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010. It has taken them a while to become as corrupt as the Democrats were, but I believe they are rapidly getting there. The voters can vote out the North Carolina swamp, but they need to be aware of who the swamp is. This upcoming election needs a very well informed electorate in North Carolina.

Removed For Telling The Truth

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The truth is not always pretty, and sometimes telling the truth will get you in trouble. On Thursday, WUNC posted an article reporting that Representatives Keith Kidwell and Jeff McNeely have resigned their leadership roles in the North Carolina legislature after the GOP leadership team asked them to step down.

The article reports:

During a May 17 debate on legislation to dramatically expand the state’s private-school voucher system, McNeely asked Democratic Rep. Abe Jones, a former trial judge, about attending Harvard University and Harvard law school.

McNeely asked Jones whether he would “have been able to maybe achieve this if you were not an athlete or a minority or any of these things, but you were a student trapped” in a low-performing school.

House Minority Leader Robert Reives complained at once about the question. Speaker Tim Moore cut off McNeely, who later apologized to Jones, saying it “did not come out right.”

The night before, during another tense debate on whether to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill banning most abortions after 12 weeks, Democratic Rep. Diamond Staton-Williams discussed growing up attending church and how it influenced her views.

WRAL-TV reported that a station’s reporter sitting on the floor overheard Kidwell making an aside that Staton-Williams must have meant the church of Satan.

Representative McNeely asked a valid question. Harvard has been taken to court because of admission policies that discriminate against white American and Chinese students. Regardless of the phrasing, it was a good question. As for Keith Kidwell, a non-public statement was used to remove someone who is something of a thorn in the side to all of the wishy-washy Republicans who inhabit the North Carolina legislature. It should also be noted that the Bible makes it pretty clear that abortion or killing babies is not acceptable to God.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / states:

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

I think that’s pretty clear.

I would like to remind the North Carolina Republicans that when a squirrel stays in the middle of the road, it usually gets run over. There are many Republican voters who are at the point where they will leave a blank space on their ballot rather than vote for a Republican who is a “Democrat lite.”