'Kay' and 'Speaker Tillis'

Published September 6, 2014

by Gary Pearce, Talking About Politics, September 5, 2014.

Candidates and their advisers spend a lot of time during debate prep thinking about how to address their opponent, so it was no happenstance that Tillis called Hagan “Kay” and she called him “Speaker Tillis.”

 

Tillis didn’t want to give her the benefit of incumbency, so he took the risk of looking sexist and offending women voters, as Laura Leslie noted on WRAL.

 

Senator Hagan wasn’t being “respectful,” as her partisans suggested. She wanted to tie Tillis as closely as possible to the legislature and what it did on education. Tillis knows he has that problem, so he and the Republicans are pushing back as hard as they can on teacher pay raises. But they’re not getting any reinforcement from teachers.

 

Reporters and viewers clearly were frustrated by all the canned lines and talking points, but what the candidates said still tells a revealing story about the hidden forces behind this election.

 

In other Senate races across the country, President Obama’s ever-falling job ratings are hurting Democrats. But in North Carolina, Senator Hagan has an even more unpopular villain to attack (hard as that is to imagine). That’s the legislature, and that’s why he’s “Speaker Tillis.”

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September 6, 2014 at 10:34 am
Norm Kelly says:

Too bad so many women are reportedly offended that Speaker Tillis referred to K as 'Kay'. Don't care. If that is what sways their vote, perhaps they shouldn't be voting. It's time we STOPPED caring about offending so many people. It's time we start caring that the socialists are ABSOLUTELY DESTROYING our country. The nation is OVER 17TILLION DOLLARS in debt. What is K's plan to do ANYTHING about this? Nothing. What is her plan to make sure the national debt SKYROCKETS EVEN MORE? That's a simple one to answer. She wants to expand the central government, give it more power/authority to get involved in our daily lives, expand socialized medicine, have the central planners spend EVEN MORE MONEY that we don't have. The facts are that we can NOT afford to follow the path of K and her fellow Demoncrats in Washington. At the state level, her compatriots are following the same paths. Look at NY as only 1 example. They want to regulate the SIZE OF SODA I DRINK! If that's not control over every aspect of my life, what do you call it?!

While we are talking about facts, how about the fact that since Republicans have taken control of Raleigh, spending on government monopoly schools has GONE UP EVERY YEAR! What about the claim by Tillis that when K occupied Raleigh, she was part of the team that left the state $3Billion in debt? Any truth there? If so, how many women does that offend?

The teachers UNION is doing everything it can to promote the idea that an increase in government monopoly school spending is actually a cut. What do they stand to gain from such a lie? There's a darn good question. Cuz, the facts are that when Demons controlled Raleigh, government monopoly schools suffered budget CUTS. Since K has been in Washington, government monopoly schools have seen budget CUTS. Last I heard the cuts were in the neighborhood of 30% over some given number of years. So, K leaves the state in debt. K is in office when the central planners actually cut government monopoly school budgets at the central planner level. And K is in office when the state legislature actually cuts the budget for government monopoly schools. What's the common denominator here? I know, in Communist Core there is no such thing as teaching common denominator cuz it's a concept that's too hard for our kids to understand. But decomposing 6 into 5 and 1 isn't too hard!