Man, this guy is just the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to bat shit crazy:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Obamacare, the United Nations' Agenda 21, the National Defense Authorization Act. All of these things appear to be linked, in the mind of North Carolina GOP Senate candidate Greg Brannon, a global conspiracy "to control you, to control me, to control life."
He also seems to believe his kidney disease might be the result of a flu vaccination.
BuzzFeed flagged Brannon's 2012 comments during a local radio interview. Brannon, a physician, is running as the tea party alternative to North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis, who has been the presumed frontrunner for the GOP nomination. A March 11 poll from the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found Brannon and Tillis tied at 14 percent to lead the Republican primary field.
For the uninitiated, Agenda 21 is a non-binding UN plan regarding sustainable development that is the subject of numerous fringe conspiracy theories. Glenn Beck, for instance, wrote a dystopian novel about it, and Beck's news site, The Blaze, has warned readers that it could lead to a one-world government.
"This scam of Agenda 21, this scam of humans are poisoning the earth, is a scam," Brannon said. "They are using that to control you, to control me, to control life."
"That's why Obamacare, Agenda 21, NDAA, all these things are the collective over the individual. The spirit of 1776 must be rebirthed because we are living in the Orwellian 1984." - TPM, 3/20/14
Yep, this guy's the real lunatic in the GOP primary. And this guy is the idiot:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-NC) has listed two different colleges as his alma mater. Tillis, who's running in the GOP primary to face Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), is a graduate of the University of Maryland but he actually went to the independent online school University of Maryland University College.
Tillis' LinkedIn page listed the University of Maryland at College Park as where he got a Bachelor of Science Degree in Technology Management, Technology & Project Management. Similarly on Tillis's biography page on his House Speaker website, Tillis listed the University of Maryland as his alma matter and links to College Park's website. But according to officials contacted at both the University of Maryland at College Park and the University of Maryland University College, Tillis graduated from the University of Maryland at University College. Tillis is also listed as an alumni in the University College alumnus magazine (page 71).
"We have no graduate by that name on file," University of Maryland at College Park Assistant Vice President Brian Ullmann told TPM. Ullman first checked with the donor database and then with the university registrar. In both cases Tillis' name did not come up as a graduate of College Park.
But University of Maryland University College Assistant Vice President Bob Ludwig confirmed that a Thomas Roland Tillis graduated from there with a degree in Management Studies and a Minor in Computer Studies.
"A Thomas Roland Tillis has a degree from UMUC and he got it in 1997," Ludwig told TPM. - 3/20/14
Brannon and Tillis have been hitting each other in the primary but now another GOP candidate is making Tillis his punching bag:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/...
Republican Mark Harris Wednesday became the second GOP U.S. Senate candidate this week to attack rival Thom Tillis, raising what an adviser described as “character” questions.
The attacks came after a poll by the Harris campaign that sought to cast the contest as a two-man race between the Charlotte pastor and Tillis, the speaker of the N.C. House.
The so-called “push” poll showed Tillis with a double-digit lead that shrank when character questions were raised about him.
Harris could not be reached. But Tom Perdue, his campaign consultant, said Tillis “essentially lives a double life; he says one thing and does another… he’s nothing more than a typical Democrat.”
It’s the first time Harris’ campaign has leveled tough words at any of other seven GOP candidates vying to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan. - Charlotte Observer, 3/20/14
Harris is making the point that he's the better choice for GOP voters over Tillis:
http://www.newsobserver.com/...
Harris campaign consultant Tom Perdue said Republican voters need to know about Tillis’ weaknesses and “now is the time” to push them into the Republican primary debate. If Republicans don’t, Perdue said in an interview Wednesday, Democrats surely will and it could hurt the party’s chances against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan in November.
In an email to all his supporters, Harris released an internal poll this week putting him in second place at 22 percent behind Tillis, who received 33 percent. The poll is fraught with questions about its accuracy but its public release is telling: the fact Harris would issue polling numbers giving Tillis his best lead of the campaign and showing him down 11 points speaks to the challenges his campaign faces.
Perdue, a longtime Republican consultant based in Georgia, believes its shows the race is a two-man battle after the survey found Brannon, a tea party favorite, with 12 percent. The five other candidates in the race did not register significant numbers, he said, declining to provide the full results.
The campaign released the poll to show Harris is gaining, despite his lackluster start. “It’s hard to keep a base engaged if they don’t know where they are,” he said. “The fact that we are down actually means we are way up.”
An inital poll from September “basically told us ‘don’t run,’ ” Perdue said, noting Harris was an unknown to most voters.
Even Harris’ poll shows 65 percent haven’t formed an opinion about him, with those who do giving him a 28 percent positive mark to 14 percent negative. Tillis’ positive is stronger at 41 percent with 28 percent negative, it showed.
The poll is far from definitive. For one it polled only super voters, those who said they were very likely to vote in the GOP primary from a pool of Republican and unaffiliated voters that had cast ballots in three of the last four primaries. It even screened out those who said they were “likely” to vote, meaning it will not likely reflect the May 6 electorate.
The poll reached 700 of those voters March 11-13 through live callers. It has a stated margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.7 percent. - News Observer, 3/19/14
It's hard to say who's the bigger threat to Tillis in the primary but Harris has a big name coming to the Tar Heel State to help out his campaign:
http://www.newsmax.com/...
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will travel to Raleigh, N.C., to campaign for the Rev. Mark Harris, the Republican underdog in the primary to face incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan.
Harris opposes North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis and tea party candidate Greg Bannon in the primary, with Tillis the favorite of the state's establishment Republicans, The Hill reported. Harris is known for leading the push to ban gay marriage in the state.
Huckabee, who is considering another presidential bid, endorsed him earlier this year, The Charlotte Observer reported in January.
"He’s a true conservative who will join us in fighting against the status quo in Washington," Huckabee said in his endorsement.
Huckabee and Harris are both Baptist ministers, with Harris serving as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte. Harris is also president of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Harris is not the only candidate with a high-level backer. While Huckabee is in Raleigh campaigning for Harris on Saturday, Tillis will return to Washington for another Capitol Hill fundraiser next Monday. The event is being headlined by North Carolina Republican Sen. Richard Burr, who has twice helped raise cash for Tillis' campaign while not officially endorsing him. - Newsmax, 3/29/14
And with these three stooges duking it out with each other, it looks like this race is heading into a runoff:
http://www.wral.com/...
Although House Speaker Thom Tillis has a clear lead in the U.S. Senate race Republican primary, he likely will face a runoff, according to a WRAL News poll released Thursday.
SurveyUSA polled 405 likely Republican primary voters in North Carolina Monday through Wednesday and found that Tillis also has the best favorability rating with voters among the eight Senate candidates. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
Thirty-four percent of voters surveyed said they have a favorable opinion of Tillis, compared with 11 percent who have an unfavorable opinion of him, for a margin of plus-23, according to the poll. Cary Dr. Greg Brannon is second with a plus-16 (27 percent favorable vs. 11 percent unfavorable), followed by Rev. Mark Harris of Charlotte at plus-14 (23 percent favorable vs. 9 percent unfavorable).
Yet, Harris would finish fifth in the primary if it were held now, according to the poll.
Tillis now claims 28 percent of the vote, followed by Brannon at 15 percent and Wilkesboro nurse Heather Grant at 11 percent. Harris polled at 6 percent among likely primary voters, behind former Shelby mayor Ted Alexander, who had 7 percent.
A candidate needs 40 percent of the vote in the primary to avoid a runoff, meaning Tillis needs to win the majority of the 23 percent of likely voters who said they are still undecided in the race.
The winner of the May 6 primary or subsequent runoff faces Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan in November. - WRAL, 3/20/14
While these clowns duke it out, lets make sure Senator Kay Hagan (D. NC) is ready to take them on. Click here if you want to get involved or donate to Hagan's campaign:
http://www.kayhagan.com/