(NewsObserver.com) –Speaking on Tuesday [Sept. 27, 2011] to a Cary Rotary Club, Gov. Bev Perdue suggested suspending congressional elections for two years so that Congress can focus on economic recovery and not the next election.
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…. It’s unclear whether Perdue, a Democrat, is serious, but her tone was level and she asked others to support her on the idea.Later Tuesday afternoon, Perdue’s office clarified the remarks: “Come on,” said spokeswoman Chris Mackey in a statement. “Gov. Perdue was obviously using hyperbole to highlight what we can all agree is a serious problem: Washington politicians who focus on their own election instead of what’s best for the people they serve.”
Here is the audio:
The money quote:
I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won’t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that,
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You want people who don’t worry about the next election.
She sounded serious to me. But no matter how you slice it, suspending elections is no laughing matter.
Publius at Big Government
If that was a “joke” then Gov. Perdue may have the worst sense of comic tone and timing in history.
What do you all think? Trial balloon, hyperbole or something in between?
In related Gov. Perdue news:
“Maybe North Carolina’s Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue should suspend her re-election efforts while her campaign is under criminal investigation. “
Update:
NC Governor Floats Trial Balloon for Tyranny, ALG Calls for Impeachment
Sept. 28, 2011, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today reacted to North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue’s call to suspend congressional elections for two years:
“The North Carolina legislature should impeach Governor Beverly Perdue, who has called for the suspension of the U.S. Constitutional requirement for federal elections. This is all a part of a disturbing trend on the hard left, showing their antipathy toward the people’s right to choose the direction of their country rather than the elites who think they know best.
“Recently, former White House OMB director [for Obama -Ed.] and Pelosi CBO director Peter Orszag similarly stated that ‘we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic’. This is a trial balloon for tyranny.
“History has shown that elite-driven government always leads to authoritarianism. It’s time for the North Carolina legislature to stand up for the American principle that legitimacy can only be conferred through the consent of the governed by impeaching Perdue immediately. Perdue and Orszag’s attack on representative government is a desire to go back to the days before the American Revolution when the nation suffered under taxation without representation.”
Interview Availability: Please contact Rebekah Rast at (703) 383-0880 or at rrast@getliberty.org to arrange an interview with ALG President Bill Wilson.
H/T sbiam
Also see (North Carolinian) ladyliberty1885′s fantastic post: Obama Girl: NC Edition
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 677
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
S 627Â RECORDED VOTEÂ 29-Jul-2011 6:25 PM
QUESTION:Â On Passage
BILL TITLE: Budget Control Act of 2011
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 218 | 22 | ||
| Democratic | 188 | 5 | ||
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 218 | 210 | Â | 5 |
—- AYESÂ Â Â Â 218 —
| Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Austria Bachus Barletta Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boehner Bonner Bono Mack Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Dold Dreier Duffy Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson |
Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Granger Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Kelly King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford LaTourette Latta Lewis (CA) LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Manzullo Marchant Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McCotter McHenry McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Murphy (PA) Myrick Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson |
Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Pence Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Ribble Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tipton Turner Upton Walberg Walden Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoder Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN) |
—- NOESÂ Â Â Â 210 —
| Ackerman Altmire Amash Andrews Bachmann Baldwin Barrow Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chaffetz Chandler Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Cravaack Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DesJarlais Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Duncan (SC) Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) |
Fudge Garamendi Gonzalez Gowdy Graves (GA) Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Huelskamp Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Jordan Kaptur Keating Kildee Kind King (IA) Kissell Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Mack Maloney Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Mulvaney |
Murphy (CT) Nadler Napolitano Neal Olver Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paul Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree (ME) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reyes Richardson Richmond Ross (AR) Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (SC) Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell Sherman Shuler Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Southerland Stark Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walsh (IL) Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Woolsey Wu Yarmuth |
—- NOT VOTINGÂ Â Â Â 5 —
| Baca Giffords |
Hinchey Speier |
Waters |
Speaking truth to power. Good on him.
“We have been sliding for 70 years to a situation where Congress has nothing to do with the decision about whether to go to war or not, and the president is becoming an absolute monarch,” he said. “And we must put a stop to that right now, if we don’t want to become an empire instead of a republic.”
Wannabe Despot Obama will not be amused.
An interesting rant though since Nadler has in the past displayed a total lack of respect for the US Constitution.
La Raza should be informed of the well known concept that respect is earned — not forced. And that typically it is a two-way street, not the one-way dead end road La Raza is steering the U.S. towards.
NCLR has done nothing to earn the respect of American citizens and from the looks of it they never will.
None the less, the National Council of La Raza has launched a campaign asking members of Congress to sign a pledge opposing “irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric toward Latinos.”

The ethnocentric, racial supremacist organization La Raza (The Race) demands respect.
Treat others how you want to be treated. It’s a simple rule, one most people learn by the time they turn five years old. But knowing what’s right and doing what’s right are two very different things.
Jonathon M. Seiel has more.
As these videos will show that indeed yes, “knowing what’s right and doing what’s right” are apparently…two entirely different things.
La Raza, life long members of the leftist ‘do as we say, while we do and say as we please mob.’
‘Nazi’ ‘Racist’ La Raza Protesters Shout Down Political Opposition, Stop Arizona Attorney General From Doing Univision Interview
L.A. High School Teacher Calls for Mexican Revolt in the U.S.
Santee High School teacher Ron Gochez whipping up reconquista/aztlan revolution frenzy during a La Raza rally at UCLA.
Snippets below, full transcript here.
“We know that all of that is happening in the context of where we now stand is stolen, occupied Mexico! (applause)
The message that we bring is that we want to bring more of a revolutionary context to this. Why is that these people… these frail, racist white people want to keep us out of this country? It’s not simply because the color of our skin, it’s not simply that they just want to exploit us, let me tell you why: because on this planet right now, six billion people… at the forefront of the movement is La Raza (the race)…”
“There are over 40 million of our people north of the Rio Grande. That means to them there are over 40 million potential revolutionaries north of the border! Inside the belly of the beast! So when you think why do they want to kick us, our people, out — that’s why! Because they know that we now know the truth, they know we are La Raza, we are professionals, we are educators, we are revolutionary students, what does that mean?”
N.C.L.R. president Janet Murguia free speech, what free speech?
Ms. Murguia argued that hate speech should not be tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment rights:
Everyone knows there is a line sometimes that can be crossed when it comes to free speech. And when free speech transforms into hate speech, we’ve got to draw that line. And that’s what we’re doing here today. And we need to make sure that network executives will hold their people accountable and not cross that line.
Practice what you preach sister…
The thing is that any criticism of illegal immigration is “hate speech” to these types and should not be protected under the first amendment. But it will be a cold day in hell when I cease protesting anti-American illegal acts.
Discover the Networks lays out La Raza’s wholly anti-American policy positions and their various donors.
NCLR’s major policy positions also include the following:
- It supports access to driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.
- It opposes the REAL ID Act, which requires that all driver’s license and photo ID applicants be able to verify they are legal residents of the United States, and that the documents they present to prove their identity are genuine. According to La Raza, this law “opens the door to widespread discrimination and civil rights violations.”
- It opposes the Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act (CLEAR), which would empower state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws. La Raza argues this would “result in higher levels of racial profiling, police misconduct, and other civil rights violations.”
- It lobbies for racial and ethnic preferences (affirmative action) and set-asides in hiring, promotions, and college admissions.
- It supports bilingual education and bilingual ballots.
- It supports voting rights for illegal aliens.
- It supports stricter hate-crime laws.
- It opposes the Aviation Transportation and Security Act requiring that all airport baggage screeners be U.S. citizens.
- It opposed President Bush’s signing of the “Secure Fence Act of 2006” which authorized 700 miles of new border fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
NCLR receives funding from the American Express Foundation; the Allstate Foundation; the AT&T Foundation; the Bank of America Foundation; the Carnegie Corporation of New York; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; the Fannie Mae Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Joyce Foundation; the W. K. Kellogg Foundation; the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; the [George Soros] Open Society Institute; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Verizon Foundation.
And to top it all off, La Raza receives millions of tax payer dollars which they in turn use to lobby the US government for more money to lobby for and promote their open borders and amnesty for illegals agenda. Quite the pro-illegal alien tax payer circle jerk is it not?
Not only should the La Raza anti-free speech pledge be ignored, the time has come to — Stop government [tax payer] funding of La Raza
Suggested reading:
- 15 things you should know about “The Race” (La Raza)
- The Truth About ‘La Raza’
- La Raza Unida (“the Unified Race”)
- National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
- MEChA – El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (the Chicano Student Movement)
Related:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 192
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H R 1076 RECORDED VOTEÂ 17-Mar-2011Â 3:24 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: To prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 228 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
| Democratic | 185 | 7 | ||
| Independent | ||||
| TOTALS | 228 | 192 | 1 | 11 |
—- AYESÂ Â Â Â 228 —
| Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Austria Bachmann Bachus Barletta Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Davis (KY) Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dold Dreier Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs |
Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Heller Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Kelly King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Latham Latta Lewis (CA) LoBiondo Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Manzullo Marchant Marino McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McCotter McHenry McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mulvaney Murphy (PA) Myrick Neugebauer Noem |
Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paul Paulsen Pearce Petri Pitts Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Quayle Reed Rehberg Renacci Ribble Rigell Rivera Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (FL) Royce Runyan Ryan (WI) Scalise Schilling Schmidt Schock Schweikert Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stearns Stivers Stutzman Sullivan Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tipton Turner Upton Walberg Walden Walsh (IL) Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (FL) Young (IN) |
—- NOESÂ Â Â Â 192 —
| Ackerman Altmire Andrews Baca Baldwin Barrow Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Boren Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chandler Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Critz Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Donnelly (IN) Doyle Duffy Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) |
Gibson Gonzalez Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hanabusa Hanna Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinchey Hirono Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Keating Kildee Kind Kissell Kucinich Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Lee (CA) Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Loebsack Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Luján Lynch Maloney Markey Matheson Matsui McCarthy (NY) McCollum McDermott McGovern McIntyre McNerney Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Murphy (CT) Napolitano Neal Olver Owens |
Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Peters Peterson Pingree (ME) Polis Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Reichert Reyes Richardson Richmond Ross (AR) Rothman (NJ) Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schrader Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell Sherman Shuler Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Speier Stark Sutton Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tiberi Tierney Tonko Towns Tsongas Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walz (MN) Waters Watt Waxman Weiner Welch Wilson (FL) Woodall Woolsey Wu Yarmuth |
—- ANSWERED “PRESENT”    1 —
| Amash |
—- NOT VOTINGÂ Â Â Â 11 —
| Cohen Fudge Garamendi Giffords |
Hinojosa Jordan Labrador Nadler |
Pence Wasserman Schultz Young (AK) |
















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