The Cherokee County 912 group hosted a judges’ debate in Brasstown on July 17th. The following video shows a portion of the event’s question and answer session. Every prelude to mass genocide has been the removal of the people’s ability to defend themselves. The founding fathers recognized the importance of the people’s right to defend themselves against the government which is the purpose of the second amendment. This right makes the judges’ answers in the video worth considering when you vote in November. Read more »

All of the candidates for U.S. House NC District 11 participating in the Tea Party selection process have returned their questionnaires for our review. Below are links to each candidate’s response to our questionnaire.

Dan Eichenbaum
James Howard
Ed Krause
Jeff Miller
Greg Newman
Kenny West

In spite of promises made on his website and in disregard for all economic common sense, our representative, Heath Shuler, voted in favor of raising the limit on the national debt by $1.9 trillion. In doing so, Mr. Shuler displays his inability to comprehend the basic fact that continued deficit spending will lead our nation to an inevitable financial collapse. The appropriate analogy would be a family, already maxed out on credit card debt, requesting the bank raise their card limit so they could borrow even more money. This obviously would not happen in real life, but our federal government doesn’t operate by the same economic rules that govern our personal lives.

Some would argue that, without an increase in the debt ceiling, the government will not be able to fund next month’s social security checks, medicare reimbursements, military pay checks, and interest payments on the national debt. The obvious answer is to immediately eliminate all funding for useless, non-essential earmarks that serve only to protect the careers of our corrupt politicians. A recently-released list of these projects reveals an obscene waste of taxpayers’ money. Maintaining the current ceiling on the national debt could have forced congress to make the hard decisions necessary to move toward the fiscally responsible, balanced budget needed to avoid financial catastrophe.

Trust In Freedom
Dr Dan Eichenbaum

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704429304574467071019099570.html

By Gareth McGrath
Gareth.Mcgrath@StarNewsOnline.com

http://www.usdebtclock.org/ the running US Debt – alot of info on this ‘clock’.

From A Cumberland County Patriot… A North Carolina resident who is qualified to vote but who misses the 25-day deadline for voter registration may register and vote at a One-Stop Site during the One-Stop Absentee Voting period. The One-Stop Voting period extends from 19 to 3 days before Election Day. PRIMARY ELECTIONS START THIS TUESDAY OCT 6th GET OUT AND VOTE…

The process is sometimes referred to as “Same-Day Registration,” but it is important to recognize that it not permitted on Election Day itself.

Registered voters may also update their address and change vital information in an existing registration record at the One Stop Site, but they are not allowed to change their party affiliation during the One Stop Voting period that precedes a partisan primary.
 
God Bless!

Heather

(Haywood County) Residents did you know that your State constitutional rights are being violated by your State Legislators?

Article II Section 3 paragraph 3 States: No County shall be divided in the formation of a senate district.

Article II Section 5 Paragraph 3 States: No County shall be divided in the formation of a representative district.

Our (Haywood) County is split into two House Districts, and also two Senate Districts.

This alignment handicaps the whole county in terms of being able to influence the State Legislation.
This alignment handicaps all County political parties by causing them to split their resources for two house races and two senate races.
This alignment severely discriminates against the residents who live in the Maggie Valley, Bethel and Cruso communities.
These communities are in the district with Jackson, Swain, and Macon Counties. A truly excellent and qualified candidate from this part of the county would not have a chance to win, even in a primary.Every two years Rep Phil Hare comes by my business and shakes hands, gives out his business card and say vote for me. After that we never see or hear from him again. He has no ties to the these communities he will focus his Legislative agenda for bills that are most favorable for Jackson, Swain and Macon counties, because those are the counties where the majority of his votes will come from.

This has been allowed to happen because of our Federal Government. Specifically the US Department of Justice here is why.

Division of Counties Must Be Minimized:
Article II of the State Constitution says that in drawing State House and Senate districts, no county shall be divided. In 1981, the US Department of Justice said that requirement was inconsistent with the Voting Rights Act, so the General Assembly disregarded it for 21 years. Then in 2002 the State Supreme Court in the case of Stephenson v. Bartlett said the “Whole County Provision”, found in the State Constitution must be honored to the extent it can be honored, consistent with the Voting Rights Act and other State and federal precepts. The Stephenson decision for the first time said the equal protection clause of the State Constitution contained a presumption for single-member legislative districts, and that presumption should be a limitation on the Whole County Provision. The US Justice Department approved the Stephenson opinion and withdrew its 1981 objection to the Whole County Provision. The Court in Stephenson prescribed a step-by-step method for harmonizing the Whole County Provision with the other laws.

First, the General Assembly should draw the districts required by the Voting Rights Act.

Fourth, for the remaining counties it should group them into clusters of counties and divide the clusters into compact single-member districts, crossing county lines within the cluster as little as possible.Haywood County falls into the fourth step.

So to summarize, we as Haywood county residents give up some of our voting rights to ensure the voting rights of others in the state.

This is one issue that every single resident can unite around in a totally non-partisan way.

What can be done about this?

We can partition our County Commissioners to sue the state just like Pender County NC did.

Here is a summery of what took place.

The nation’s highest court upheld a 2007 state Supreme Court decision that found boundaries for a House district in Pender and New Hanover counties were illegal.
The decision means the General Assembly must change the House boundary map before the 2010 election cycle,

Redistricting experts say they expect the ruling likely will have a greater impact when the once-a-decade redrawing of boundaries for the House and Senate seats occurs in 2011, once data from the 2010 census is in.

The Legislature had to redraw district boundaries in 2001 and 2002, but a judge threw out the maps and ultimately create temporary boundaries for the 2002 elections. Another set of maps was approved by lawmakers in 2003 and has been used since the 2004 elections.

The justices’ split decision favored Pender County elected officials who originally sued in 2004 and determined a state isn’t required by the federal Voting Rights Act to draw electoral districts where black residents comprise less than half the voting-age population.

The court said such racial gerrymandering is required only if a district has a numerical majority of minority voters.

In the 18th House District, currently represented by Rep. Sandra Spaulding Hughes, D-New Hanover, the black voting-age population is 39 percent. The Legislature decided to split the district between Pender and New Hanover counties in 2003.

Lawyers for the current and former Pender County commissioners argued the split violated a provision of the North Carolina constitution discouraging district boundaries from crossing county lines and that all county residents should be placed in a single district.
The state Supreme Court agreed with county leaders in August 2007, saying the district was illegal because the constitution’s “whole county provision” could only be superseded if the district be comprised of a majority-black population. It ordered the Legislature to make changes before the 2010 election cycle.