Burr, Marshall split on how to mend economy – Source: WRAL

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — North Carolina’s leading U.S. Senate candidates offered competing visions Monday on what the federal government should do to encourage job growth and rein in the national debt.

In a debate just three weeks from Election Day, Republican Sen. Richard Burr blamed unpredictable taxes and regulation for stunting the nation’s nascent economic recovery. (Read more)

 

So Is Burr The Helms Of North Carolina?

Burr has big money lead; primary battle hurt Marshall

RALEIGH — Republican Sen. Richard Burr starts the fall Senate race with an overwhelming financial advantage over his Democratic challenger, Elaine Marshall, according to campaign reports filed last week.

Burr reported having $6.3 million in his campaign kitty, compared to Marshall who had $163,195. That gives the incumbent a 38-1 advantage as of June 30, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. (Read more @ News & Observer)

Note: It never seems to amaze me how these guys can raise this amount of money to run for office. Tell me them Republicans don’t have some money. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

Follow the Money in NC Political Races-Burr has raised over $8 Million. So Where Does That Leave You?

There should be an entirely separate category for this crap called WTF RICHARD BURR.  While the Democratic candidates are running all over NC; talking to the middle class citizens learning what we need just to be able to survive, Richard Burr is sitting back counting his cash! 

Do you care about your child’s education? If you said YES, Richard Burr will not help you because you and your child probably don’t have a Political Action Committee. (See Who Are Giving The Cash @ Behind The Scenes Of A TV Show)

Hendersonville NC – Senator Burr Speaks to the Economy

Burr tells wife to remove cash
Give a politician a stage and enough time and he/she will eventually put his/her foot in his/her mouth. Senator Richard Burr did exactly that in a speech in Hendersonville telling his audience that when he was given a briefing of the condition of our banks last fall he instructed his wife to go the ATM machine and draw out all the cash she could get. Here’s what he said, according to the Hendersonville Times-News: “Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday. I was convinced on Friday night that if you put a plastic card in an ATM machine the last thing you were going to get was cash.”

Wow! I don’t believe I would have told that Senator Burr. What does this say about your support for our banking system? What does it say about your concern for the rest of us? What does it say about yourself?

Memo to Attorney General Cooper: Please file this story. It may come in handy, say in October 2010.

This is from my most recent mail from NC Spin weekly email. However Burr’s speech can be found here.

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Hall of Shame: Richard Burr