Brian Brown: GOP Won Because Of NOM

"Our two most prominent efforts to influence Senate contests were in North Carolina and Arkansas. The NOM Victory Fund spent over $200,000 in these races on television ads, direct mail and grassroots outreach to mobilize marriage supporters. When our TV ad and mailer hit in North Carolina, Thom Tillis trailed Kay Hagan by 2-3 points. Within days, we helped bring the race into a tie, and then working along with NC Values Coalition (which co-sponsored the ads and with whom we worked to pass the state’s marriage amendment in 2012) we helped mobilize grassroots marriage supporters to get to the polls. In what many consider the biggest upset of the night, Thom Tillis defeated Kay Hagan by two points, and marriage helped make the difference.

"Arkansas was also a race where marriage made a difference. When our TV ad began airing, marriage champion Tom Cotton led incumbent Mark Pryor by 7 points. Cotton ended up winning by seventeen points! Clearly, our advertising and grassroots efforts in that state helped to boost his margin of victory. We were able to mount very strong grassroots efforts that helped make a difference in a number of other races. For example, we helped sponsor (along with FRC Action and others) a multi-state bus tour to energize marriage supporters who went to the polls to elect Joni Ernst to the Senate in Iowa and Ben Sasse in Nebraska, as well as turnout supporters to help Gov. Sam Brownback and Sen. Pat Roberts win reelection in Kansas." - Hate group leader Brian Brown, writing for the Heritage Foundation's blog, Daily Signal.

NORTH CAROLINA: Anti-Gay State Rep. Tom Tillis Unseats Sen. Kay Hagen

NORTH CAROLINA: NOM Launches Lying Ad Campaign Against Sen. Kay Hagan

NOM has launched an attack ad campaign against US Sen. Kay Hagan, who is battling anti-gay state Rep. Thom Tillis, the leader of his state's bid to overturn same-sex marriage. NOM accuses Hagan of having "hand-picked" the judge that overturned Amendment One, but Jeremy Hooper points out that the judge was unanimously approved by the Senate. "Unanimous" includes North Carolina's GOP member of the Senate, but he is somehow innocent of destroying his state's families.

NORTH CAROLINA: Sen. Kay Hagan Tied With Thom Tillis In New Senate Poll

Via the Greensboro News & Record:

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan and House Speaker Thom Tillis continue to be in a close race among likely North Carolina voters, according to the latest High Point University Poll released Monday. About 40.4 percent of likely voters polled said they would vote for Republican Tillis if the vote were today. Democrat Hagan took 39.5 percent. “It’s a statical dead heat,” said Martin Kifer, director of the HPU poll. “It’s extremely close.” Libertarian candidate Sean Haugh got 7 percent in the HPU Poll. Thirteen percent of people said they were undecided.

The Hagan/Tillis race could decide whether the GOP gains control of the Senate.

Editorial Of The Day

The Charlotte News-Observer has taken a swipe at North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis over his opposition to enacting same-sex marriage. Tillis is attempting to unseat US Sen. Kay Hagan.

Write the check, Mr. Tillis. If you want to continue North Carolina’s defense of its same-sex marriage ban, even after the U.S. Supreme Court implicitly rejected it and other bans Monday, have at it. If you want to keep fighting a fight that for all practical and legal purposes has been decided, go for it. But pay for it. Don’t spend North Carolina’s money doing so. Don’t waste tax dollars on outside attorneys that N.C. lawmakers have said you can use to intervene “on behalf of the General Assembly” in legal challenges of state laws. That’s apparently what you’re planning, given your reaction Monday to the Supreme Court’s decision to let stand lower court rulings striking down same-sex marriage bans. One of those rulings, on a Virginia law, came from the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision applies to North Carolina, too.

In other words, Mr. Tillis: It’s over. You can disagree with the Supreme Court, but you should follow the lead of your attorney general Roy Cooper, who recognizes the legal futility of fighting. Better yet, look to your governor, Pat McCrory, who told reporters Monday that while he didn’t like the justices’ decision, he believes he must respect it. Any other course is a waste of time. It’s an irresponsible use of state resources. It’s a cynical play for conservative votes in your U.S. Senate race. It’s one last slap at homosexuals in North Carolina. It’s not, however, something that N.C. taxpayers should sponsor. If you want to keep up the battle, feel free. But write the check yourself. Or maybe your campaign can pick up the tab.

The above editorial has given local anti-gay activist Michael Brown an enormous case of the sadz.

In what sounded more like a gay activist screed in a high-school publication than a serious editorial in a major newspaper, the Charlotte Observer has officially declared war on people of faith and conservative moral values, mocking those who believe there is the slightest rational reason to resist the radical redefinition of marriage. Making no attempt to hide its disdain for the conservative, historic position, and gleefully mocking the views of the majority of North Carolinians, the editorial begins with three sentences ending in exclamation points – when is the last time you have seen that in a major editorial? – deriding the idea that there could be any negative consequences to redefining marriage.

Brown is infamous for leading hundreds of red-shirted Christians in their annual disruption of Charlotte Pride.

GOP: Dems Are Running From Obama

GOP Vs Sen. Kay Hagan

The anti-Hagan campaign is part of the GOP's national "Road To Six" push to retake the Senate.

Koch Brothers Vs Sen. Kay Hagan

From the Koch Brothers astroturf group Americans For Prosperity: "Best friends Barack Obama and Kay Hagan support the same things, and often say the same things. So you'd think Senator Hagan would be here to greet the President when he arrives in her state. Instead? She's hiding out in DC."

Sen. Kay Hagan Backs Marriage

"Marriage equality is a complex issue with strong feelings on both sides, and I have a great deal of respect for varying opinions on the issue. After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn’t tell people who they can love or who they can marry. This wasn’t a decision I came to overnight, like my Republican colleague Rob Portman expressed recently on his own viewpoint. Last year, I opposed Amendment One because I was concerned about the negative consequences it could have on North Carolina families and our economy. The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families – happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren." - Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), writing this morning on her Facebook page. And that makes six Senate Democrats in 72 hours. (Tipped by JMG reader Rob)

I'm Godless And I Approve This Message

Hitting Back At Elizabeth Dole

Now it's a "I'M more Christian than YOU are!" contest.

More Lies From Elizabeth Dole

From Huffington Post:

Falling behind in her reelection race, Sen. Elizabeth Dole has uncorked one hell of a charge: The Democrat running against me is godless. Dole's 30-second ad, which is running on television in North Carolina but has not (understandably) been promoted by the GOP, uses a September fundraiser co-hosted by 40 people, including a representative of the Godless America PAC, to falsely accuse Democrat Kay Hagan of being an atheist herself. The end of the ad features a picture of Hagan with a female voice yelling "there is no God!" -- the clear implication is that the voice is Hagan's. In fact, the Democratic candidate is a Sunday School teacher and an elder at her Presbyterian church.

Of all the Republicans I desperately want to see fall, Elizabeth Dole is at the top of the list.

Warning! Godless Homos Attack NC!

Dirty godless queers are on the march in North Carolina! And Elizabeth Dole's campaign ain't havin' it.

Via PageOneQ:

A new anti-gay offensive has been launched against Democratic North Carolina state senator and U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan. Campaign literature produced by the North Carolina Republican Party has been mailed to households in the state, PageOneQ has learned.

A new mailer in support of incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole claims that Hagan's agenda, with the help of "liberal judges," will be to advance a "radical homosexual agenda" which includes same-sex marriage, removing "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and forcing the Boy Scouts to accept gay and atheist troop leaders.

Hagan's opposition to an anti-gay amendment is the focus of the mailer. "Across America," it reads, "liberal judges are overturning state laws banning gay marriage. In North Carolina a state constitutional amendment is needed to protect traditional marriage and prevent liberal judges from imposing their gay marriage agenda on the state."

A spokesman for Dirty Godless Queers was not available for comment as he was in merger talks with Gay Nazis & Cannibals for Hagan.