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• Democrats Can’t Recruit Anyone To Run Against Richard Burr, Except For 3 Candidates

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post gives us the following nonsensical insider story : The Democrats have been dealt “another setback in their recruiting efforts against North Carolina’s senior senator, Richard Burr” . The problem: U.S. Representative Bob Etheridge , a right-leaning Democrat, has decided ...
  15 hours ago

• Etheridge Being Courted By Dems to Run Against Burr [UPDATED]

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 434
  UPDATE: Etheridge is out. [ N&O ] With no more top candidates to recruit, Dems turn to this woman .   National Democrats are apparently stepping up their efforts to try and recruit Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC-02) to run against Senator Richard Burr in next year’s election.  They evidently think ...
  2 days ago

• Etheridge Being Courted By Dems to Run Against Burr

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 434
  National Democrats are apparently stepping up their efforts to try and recruit Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC-02) to run against Senator Richard Burr in next year’s election.  They evidently think that Etheridge could bring a strong challenge to Burr.  While I realize Burr isn’t all that popular or well known ...
  3 days ago

• Burr Leads Weak Field of Democrats in North Carolina

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Senate , Polls , Poll Watch , 2010 Elections First-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr is so far benefitting from the fact that he faces a weak field of potential Democratic challengers, all of whom he leads by double-digit margins, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted Nov. 9 - 11. ...
  4 days ago

• Thank You

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  Dear Friends, After giving a serious and thorough look at a race for the U.S. Senate, I have decided not to seek office at this time. This has been a very difficult decision, but I’m sure there will be another day and there are many other ways to serve. I am deeply committed to public service and have a passion ...
  6 days ago

• Tax Cuts for Foreign Poisons for Cigarette Makers

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 549
  When Republicans talk about cutting taxes, whose taxes are they talking about cutting? In the case of Republican Senator Richard Burr , the tax cuts are for foreign-made poisons for cigarette makers. No kidding. This week, Senator Burr has introduced a piece of very specific legislation, S. 2680, that ...
  1 week ago

• Richard Burr Sells Out American Jobs For Pencil Sharpeners

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 478
  Senator Richard Burr is selling out working Americans for the sake of profits for pencil sharpener importers.
  1 week ago

• Only 19% Think Burr Deserves Reelection

  
  Carolina Politics Online — Authority: 434
  According to a poll out by Elon University , only 19% of North Carolinians feel that Senator Richard Burr deserves reelection to a second term. I am surprised by this, but not that surprised. I am not at all shocked that the number is low. As I’ve written before, Burr and his staff haven’t done a lot of work in ...
  2 weeks ago

• North Carolinians Want Someone Other than GOPs Burr in Senate

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Polls , Poll Watch , 2010 Elections Forty-two percent of North Carolinians say theyd rather see someone else besides first-term GOP Sen. Richard Burr win next years election while 19 percent say he deserves to return to Washington, according to an Elon University poll conducted Oct. 26-29. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deficit hysteria on the home front

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  I dont often agree with Tom Friedman, but his analysis today of Americas involvement in Afghanistan is the best thinking Ive seen in years on the subject. Too bad he muddles the discussion with comments on Iraq, but thats a different subject. The U.S. military has given its assessment. It said that stabilizing ...
  2 weeks ago

• NC Health Insurer Asks Voters To Lobby Hagan Against Reform

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 772
  Health insurers are using every tool at their disposal to pressure wavering senators into opposing a public option. The latest example: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has sent a mailer -- obtained by TPMmuckraker -- to voters in the state, warning that a public option will lead to "a single payer system," ...
  2 weeks ago

• Burr (R-NC) among 30 Republicans protecting Rapist in the name of Capitalism

  
  Butner Blogspot — Authority: 124
  On October 7, 2009, the Senate voted to not fund companies who mandate their employees sign contracts that  forfeits the employee’s  right to file sue for sexual assault or harassment. Freshman Senator Al Franken (D-MN) sponsored and pushed through the amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Senator tears into those defending rapists; the other Senator tears into those helping domestic violence victims

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 608
  hat tip: DailyKos So. In one case, you have a U.S. Senator tearing apart a guy for trying to defend the gang rape, battery and imprisonment of a young woman. In the other case, you have a U.S. Senator tearing apart a woman for trying to help domestic violence victims get medical attention.
  3 weeks ago

• A Question of Timing in North Carolina (CQPolitics.com)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 516
  CQPolitics.com – As a number of highly touted Democratic recruits passed on challenging Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., an oft-repeated line by Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee officials was that there’s no need to rush the recruiting process. Read more: (CQPolitics.com)"> (CQPolitics.com)">A ...
  3 weeks ago

• One Senator tears into those defending rapists; the other Senator tears into those helping domestic violence victims

  
  Mirror On America — Authority: 436
  hat tip: DailyKos So. In one case, you have a U.S. Senator tearing apart a guy for trying to defend the gang rape, battery and imprisonment of a young woman. In the other case, you have a U.S. Senator tearing apart a woman for trying to help domestic violence victims get medical attention.
  3 weeks ago

• More odds and ends

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 436
  The Galleon insider-trading case, in which billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was charged and the securities-rating firm Moody’s was implicated ? Has been assigned to Judge Jed Rakoff. Yeah, this Jed Rakoff . (I hope the judge is taking extremely good care of his health, if you know what I mean, because he is making ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another open letter to the Republican Party

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 488
  Because the congressional E-Mail system is a seriously bad joke I’m going to have to embarrass you publicly. I know that you have made many efforts to embarrass yourself without my help, but apparantly your sense of shame is near that of the Democrats. I would love to actually be able to communicate with elected ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bozos repent, Burr keeps digging his grave

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  First things first: The two South Carolina Republican county chairmen who praised Sen. Jim Demint by comparing him to penny-pinching Jews apologized yesterday for the ethnic slur. Seems that these days you can say almost anything and, as long as you apologize for it quickly, everything’s OK. So, here’s a big thank ...
  3 weeks ago

• Burr Spin Machine Wobbles

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 563
  Imagine youre a hard-workin lawnmower salesman who one day lands in a sparkly new Senate office with corporate executives hauling in bags of money to get your attention. It must be thrilling, maybe even head-spinning, which could easily explain why you might consider yourself above little old values like truth and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Target These Republican Senators TODAY

  
  RedState — Authority: 814
  The Senate is expected to try to take up S. 1776 today for a cloture vote. What that means is the Senate will see if it can get 60 votes to cut off debate on the measure. As I told you yesterday, S. 1776 is a deficit busting bribe to the doctors’ lobby to support Obamacare. If this passes, Obamacare will probably ...
  3 weeks ago

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