Glen Bradley came to our first PATCON. A gentleman. Too bad he lost.
“McCrory offered voters an appealing resume combining public service and business experience, along with an optimistic vision for the State. He was an attractive candidate with ideas that met the times, showing that it takes more than money or campaign staff to win an election. Sometimes, a candidate highlights issues that aren’t relevant to the office he is seeking. Outgoing State Rep. Glen Bradley, R-Franklin, tried to bring a Ron Paul agenda to the General Assembly, supporting bills that would ban the enforcement of some federal regulations within North Carolina’s borders, and expressing support for a State-based currency.
The GOP’s nominee for State Treasurer, Steve Royal, spoke of a “regional” currency backed by North Carolina and neighboring States. These ideas were not high priorities for voters looking for effective representation in Raleigh from Bradley or competent investment management from Royal. Bradley ran for a Senate seat and finished a distant third in a three-way primary. Royal lost to incumbent Treasurer Janet Cowell. Liberals might say these unsuccessful candidates shared one characteristic: They were backed by the Tea Party and the conservative grassroots.”
(Ideas Matter, and So Do Candidates, Rick Henderson, Carolina Journal, December
2012)
[Editor’s Note: Royal ran as a Republican but the State party all but endorsed his Democratic opponent, and refused him campaign funding.]
North Carolina’s Very Prescient Nathaniel Macon:
Nathaniel Macon on Government Power:
“We
go on deciding [on political issues] without looking at the
Constitution; and I suppose we will, in a few years, do as was done in
England – we shall appoint a committee to hunt for precedents. My heart
is full when I think of all this; and what is to become of us I cannot
say. This government was intended to be a limited one….
Mr.
Macon said he would beg leave to call the attention of the Senate to a
celebrated report [by Thomas Jefferson], made in Virginia in 1799, for a
true exposition of the constitutional powers of this government. If
there was reason to be alarmed at the growing power of the general
government, how much more has taken place since? Congress now stopped
at nothing, which it deemed expedient, and the Constitution was
construed to give power to any grand scheme. This change was brought
about little by little….The end of them all would be in the vulgar
tongue, taxation.”
Our opponents are not in the electorate, but the power-broker establishment. We are moving on that front also, though, and have been for some time. We are pushing up but it's slow work. I have no doubt we will still be pushing when the dollar implodes for good.
ReplyDeleteYes, we can only do the best we can.
DeleteI don't think the dollar will survive in a useful form past December 2014. So one of my primary goals is to see as many Constitutionalists in office as possible in the 2014 election, so the strict Constitutionalist voice will be a primary in the rebuilding effort to come. People are 'getting into position' so to speak, and if (when, really) the dollar collapses, lead the rebuilding effort, and then over the following two elections elect waves of Constitutionalists as we rebuild America from the foundation up to comply with the Constitution.
DeleteOne thing I would like to see in a reformed America would be real penalties for violating the oath of office and abrogating the Constitution. Like prison at hard labor in chunks of decades...
Very good. Hope you can make it to the Spring PATCON and it also looks like there may be another armed rally like before in Greensboro. What will you be doing this year, if I'm not too inquisitive?
DeleteHaving heard you speak at a rally, we made a small contribution to your campaign, Glen, even though we live in the Piedmont. Please keep up the fight.
ReplyDeleteCo-incidental to both the concern with the Constitution and the siting of Nathaniel Macon, I have just published a historical novel, The Secrets of Sterling Shearin, that starts just as the Constitution is being debated in 1787. Nathaniel Macon is the neighbor of the main protagonist, Sterling, & an important character in the novel. There is steamy romance, mystery, horse racing, and lots else. But especially brought out is the thinking of the Anti-federalists, without whom we would have no Bill of Rights.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secrets-Sterling-Shearin-Noblest/dp/1481060759/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top