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North Carolina Race Could Shift Senate
By Afrique I.
Kilimanjaro
RALEIGH, N.C. – U.S.
Senator Kay Hagan has
been reaching out to com-
munities and constituents
across North Carolina gal-
vanizing support for her
re-election campaign. The
Democratic Senator from
North Carolina and her
campaign are full steam
ahead as they face Republi-
can opponent, current N.C.
Speaker of the House,
Thom Tillis.
The Tillis campaign,
according to Hagan, is
being aided by $20 million
in out of state advertising
spending from conserva-
tives such as Charles and
David Koch, and Republi-
can political strategist Karl
Rove. The Hagan campaign
says, these out of state enti-
ties
“believe
North
Carolina’s Senate seats can
be bought.”
Hagan, along with fellow
Democrats in federal, state,
county and city govern-
ment, are spreading the
word and sounding the
alarm from Dare to Chero-
kee that the “Old North
State is not for sale.” She is
delivering this message to
groups and communities
across the state and recently
summit was to help coordi-
nate the efforts of the
campaign with the power of
the community leaders in
attendance.”
Speakers included North
Carolina’s U.S. Congres-
sional Representatives G.K
Butterfield and David Price,
State Rep. and Congression-
al candidate Alma Adams
and Congressman Elijah
Republicans in the North Carolina General
Assembly, slashed $293 million from the 2013-
14 education budget, making North Carolina
48th in education funding
hosted a summit with hun-
dreds of members of North
Carolina’s African Ameri-
can
community
last
weekend
in
Raleigh.
According to campaign
staffers, “The purpose of the
Cummings (D-Md.), former
chairman of the Congres-
sional Black Caucus.
“Senator Kay is a bridge
builder. This [election] is
bigger than us,” proclaimed
Cummings. He talked about
Obituary
Marion Deloris Johnson
October 10,1934 – July 26, 2014
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growing up the son of two
Pentecostal ministers who
raised seven children, all of
them college educated, on a
domestic’s and laborer’s
salary. He said that one
must “never curse your
journey because in the jour-
ney may be a lot of pain but
that leads to your passion to
fulfill your purpose.” Cum-
mings told the audience,
arion Deloris Johnson of Van-
couver, Washington passed
away on July 26, 2014 in Port-
land, Oregon.
A viewing will be held on August 7th,
from 4-9pm at Caldwell’s Funeral Home,
20 NE 14th Ave. Portland, OR. The
funeral service will be held at Bethel
AME Church, 5828 NE 8th Ave, Port-
land, OR 97211 on Aug. 8th, at 11am;
and she will be laid to rest at Willamette
National Cemetery.
For more information visit www.cald-
wellsfuneralhome.com.
“There are consequences to
our actions and our failure
to act… [We] cannot turn
the [U.S.] Senate over to
Republicans. We must pro-
tect our progress and Sen.
Hagan is the last line of
defense.”
Cummings said that the
nation’s historically Black
colleges and universities
(HBCUs), which North Car-
olina boasts of 11, are
extremely important and
people must fight the threat
to close campuses. “We’ve
got to stand up for educa-
Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), former
chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus and
Senator Kay Hagan.
tion,” said Cummings. “Ter-
rorists are a major problem
but the greatest threat to our
national security is our fail-
ure to educate every single
one of our children.”
Cummings said he came
to North Carolina to support
his friend and colleague
Hagan because, “I need to
be a part of something that
is much bigger than me.”
This race is about people, he
added. “We are here to feed
our souls and we know we
have a role in the destiny of
this country.”
North Carolina is now less
than 100 days from the 2014
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midterm elections, which
includes the North Carolina
U.S. Senate race. “This
election is a clear contrast
between my work to put
North Carolina first and
Speaker Tillis who has
shown he will pick the spe-
cial interests over our
families every single time,”
said Hagan. “I’ve been
proud to build a record of
results for North Carolina
families and my top priority
has been jobs.”
In discussing both he and
Hagan’s ardent support of
Medicaid expansion, Cum-
mings said, “We can’t give
more attention to the under-
taker than to the doctor.”
“Republicans don’t give a
damn about African Ameri-
cans,” said Adams citing the
General Assembly’s pas-
sage of VIVA, the Voter
Information Verification
Act, which consists of the
strictest voter ID laws in the
nation. Adams said she and
her colleagues refer to the
law as VIVA, the Voter
Intimidation Vilification
Act.
“We’ve got to turn this
mutha out,” proclaimed
Adams, who defeated six
men to win the Democratic
Primary for the 12th U.S.
Congressional District seat.