State Sen. Tom McInnis, R-Richmond, has moved his permanent residence from Richmond County to his second home in the Pinehurst area of Moore County to run for the newly-drawn state Senate District 21, which will include all of GOP-rich Moore County, and much of Cumberland County that mostly surrounds the city of Fayetteville but includes...
[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...
As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don’t know we don’t know. United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld-February...
A note from the editor: When Carolina Journal Investigative Political Analyst Dallas Woodhouse pitched this groundbreaking story to me, and Carolina Journal publisher Amy Cooke, it frankly seemed unbelievable and unlikely. His scoop was that that the 4-3 Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court was considering forcibly removing two Republican colleagues, putting a thumb...
An involuntary recusal, in the teeth of a Justice’s own judgment that recusal is not necessary, is in effect a public declaration that the Justice has engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice. It is difficult to imagine a procedure better calculated to poison the deliberations of this body and its ability to...
It’s one of the best quotes attributed to baseball legend Yogi Berra: “It’s like deja vu all over again.” It’s also a phrase that sums up North Carolina’s political landscape going forward as new legislative and congressional district maps are approved by the Republican-led legislature along party-line votes. Multiple groups have evaluated and rated the...
While all eyes were on Virginia and New Jersey elections on Tuesday, N.C. Republicans quietly followed the same pattern, flipping key elections in areas critical to legislative and congressional elections next year. For Wake County, Republicans flipped the mayor in Fuquay-Varina, and had a clean sweep in Holly Springs, picking up three town commissioner seats...
As Virginians head to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 2 to elect a governor, the race is under the watchful eye of the nation, particularly those political pundits and strategists looking toward 2022. The race has not only tightened as it got closer, as Republican Glen Youngkin has pulled ahead of Democrat Terry McAuliffe by about...
A group of retired N.C. State Court of Appeals Judges, all Democrats who chaired the N.C. Judicial Standards Commission has joined forces with fellow Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court in supporting forcibly removing two GOP justices from a critical constitutional amendments case. The Judicial Standards Commission was created in 1971, now codified as Article...
Update: One day after Carolina Journal first reported the news, former four-term Wake County Sheriff, Republican Donnie Harrison formally announced plans to file for his former office in the upcoming 2022 mid-term elections. “I am making it official. I will be a candidate for the GOP nomination for Wake County Sheriff in the March 2022...
Between now and next November, if North Carolina Republicans are talking about anything other than President Biden’s long list of failures they are doing themselves no favors. While Biden’s failures are mounting, and since the policies aren’t sound, Republicans just need to stay out of their own way. The October Civitas poll just released by...
