Hagan can help repair damage by Helms and Dole
I keep reading where people say Jesse Helms was such a great senator. Where have they been living? I have been living here all my life and I believe he was the worst senator we have ever had.
My wife and I went to California several years ago and when people learned we were from North Carolina, they kept asking why we were continuing to elect Jesse Helms year after year when we were a Democratic state. Helms set our state back 30 years.
We now have another one similar to him in Elizabeth Dole. She knows nothing about North Carolina or the true needs of our people. However, we have the chance to change that by electing Kay Hagan to the Senate. We need her in Washington to help lead our state forward and undo the damage Helms and Dole have done to North Carolina.
Willie Duncan
Siler City
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"My wife and I went to California several years ago and when people learned we were from North Carolina, they kept asking why we were continuing to elect Jesse Helms year after year when we were a Democratic state. Helms set our state back 30 years."
Let's hope that's true. A 30-year reprieve from California's fate would be heartily welcomed.
California is, in fact, an excellent laboratory for studying the effects on Democratic Party control of a state and of Democratic representation in Congress. California is a harbinger for things to come courtesy of an ascendant Democratic Party nationally.
Example: this report on the increasing poverty that is irretrievably connected to the Democratic Party's devotion to mass Third World immigration:
“California is becoming a society in which some are prospering immensely . . . and a disturbingly large number are barely making it.”
“In one study, [Robert Mogull, an emeritus professor of business statistics at California State University] found that the state's poverty rate was 14.4 percent in 1959 and dropped to 11.1 percent in 1969, but ‘there has been a constant increase over the past 30 years,’ which he describes as ‘an ominous upward trend.’ The rate was 14.2 percent in 1999 . . . By 2009 . . . Mogull expects the number of poverty-stricken Californians to increase by another 25 percent.” ("California poverty increasing, Sacramento Bee, January 14, 2007)*
*"California poverty increasing," By Dan Walters, January 14, 2007, Sacramento Bee
NOTE: The original link is no longer available, but the text has been preserved online by a California immigration reform group, SaveOurState.com and is included below:
http://saveourstate.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t21063.html
Posted on August 4, 2008 7:11 AM
Willie states "My wife and I went to California several years ago and when people learned we were from North Carolina, they kept asking why we were continuing to elect Jesse Helms year after year when we were a Democratic state."
I doubt this statement, most places I go people don't ask about my Senators ( unless I bring it up first).
Then again, I would not want anyone to mistake my politics and those of the "Left Coast" as being anywhere near the same.
Posted on August 4, 2008 9:17 AM
Ghost, I remember a similar letter recently in which the writer stated friends in the UK expressed disdain about Sen. Helms to them. Perhaps Canadian flag patches are the answer.
Posted on August 4, 2008 12:28 PM
I do not doubt, for one second, that the letter writer is telling the truth. Several years ago, I did a lot of traveling. When people found out I lived in NC, they almost never failed to mention Helms. Their comments were unfailingly negative, with few exceptions. They would pity those of us who had to live with the people who kept voting him in or express that there must be a lot of red-necked hicks living in NC. (And yes, that was the term used by more than just one.)
Posted on August 5, 2008 9:34 AM