ELECTIONS HEALTH CARE Filing challenged Fighting unionization Democrat candidate J.D. Wooten faces Hospital consolidation complicates issues challenges over loan, residency in his run of who’s at fault in Mission Health union for Senate District 24 debate PAGE 6 PAGE 5 FOR DAILY UPDATES VISIT CAROLINAJOURNAL.COM AN AWARD-WINNING JOURNAL OF NEWS, ANALYSIS, AND OPINION FROM THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION CAROLINAJOURNAL.COM VOL. 29 • NO. 9 • SEPTEMBER 2020 • STATEWIDE EDITION LOST GOVERNMENT ORDERS, EDICTS IN RESPONSE TO PANDEMIC BREAK BUSINESSES, LEAVING TRADITION, CULTURE IN TATTERS MUSIC VENUES, CLOSED SINCE YEAR WITHOUT A STATE FAIR MARCH, STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE. LEAVES NORTH CAROLINIANS SOME HAVE CLOSED FOR GOOD SAD, NOSTALGIC PAGE 8 PAGE 12 Interview: CAROLINA JOURNAL 4800 SIX FORKS ROAD, #220 Mike Long RALEIGH, NC 27609 President of Parents for CJ ONLINE PERMIT NO. 302 NO. 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MANAGING EDITOR a few weeks ago, I watched him ◼ HEARD OF, BUT NO OPINION 5% captivate the crowd with his Kari Travis ◼ NEVER HEARD OF 4% @karilynntravis booming voice and inspirational ◼ UNSURE/REFUSED 2% message about freedom and being EXECUTIVE EDITOR a black man in North Carolina and Don Carrington America. Mark Robinson [email protected] As he makes his case for why North Carolinians should vote Black Lives Matter ASSOCIATE EDITORS for him in November, he demon- dollars to the BLM organization. Julie Havlak strates the distinction between While blm is uplifting and VERY FAVORABLE 41% @juliehavlak ◼ two black-lives-matter move- moves Americans toward a “more ◼ SOMEWHAT FAVORABLE 17% Mitch Kokai ments — little “b,” little “l,” little perfect union,” BLM seeks social SOMEWHAT UNFAVORABLE 9% @mitchkokai ◼ “m” or big “B,” big “L,” big “M” upheaval, chaos, and violence to ◼ VERY UNFAVORABLE 24% Lindsay Marchello — in a way that only a black man destroy our union. HEARD OF, BUT NO OPINION 6% @LynnMarch007 can do. (Side note: I’d like to take Robinson is dangerous to BLM ◼ 1% credit for little blm versus big and those on the Left who cham- ◼ NEVER HEARD OF EDITORIAL INTERN BLM, but that goes to a colleague pion it. He disrupts their narrative ◼ UNSURE/REFUSED 2% Emma Schambach who recently mentioned it to me.) and does so with authenticity. DESIGNER Little blm is literal and unifying. He’s not a career politician. He Greg de Deugd Of course, black lives matter. Just burst on the scene in 2018 at a [email protected] as all lives matter because each Greensboro City Council meeting life matters to someone. Support- with an impassioned four-minute Defund the Police PUBLISHED BY ers of blm invite dialogue and free speech about the “majority” of speech. law-abiding gun owners. ◼ VERY FAVORABLE 11% Big BLM is the violent, Marxist, He’s fearless in the face of BLM ◼ SOMEWHAT FAVORABLE 13% divisive movement with secular and its woke mob followers. At ◼ SOMEWHAT UNFAVORABLE 13% VERY UNFAVORABLE 57% The John Locke Foundation religious undertones. BLM seeks the rally I attended, he confronted ◼ to shut down speech, to defund roughly two dozen BLM protesters 4800 Six Forks Road, #220 ◼ HEARD OF, BUT NO OPINION 3% the police, and to coerce corpo- Raleigh, N.C. 27609 ◼ NEVER HEARD OF 1% rations to contribute millions of continued PAGE 20 (919) 828-3876 • Fax: 821-5117 ◼ UNSURE/REFUSED 2% www.JohnLocke.org John Hood COMMENTARY BY JOHN HOOD Chairman Harper Polling, on behalf of Civitas Institute, a conservative public policy organization, surveyed 600 likely voters between Aug. 6-10. The margin of error is plus or minus 4%. Bill Graham, John M. Hood Ted Hicks, Christine Mele, New monuments Rodney C. 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Those interested in educa- deliberation and legislation in- have in common is that, through residency challenges was featured in a READ THE STORY tion, economics, higher education, stead of attacking the rule of law. health care or local government also continued PAGE 21 political advertisement by the group PAGE 6 can ask to receive weekly e-letters Today, I’ll make a different point Citizens for a Better NC Senate. covering these issues. CAROLINA JOURNAL // SEPTEMBER 2020 3 QUICK TAKES State Board of Education member links ‘white moderates’ to ‘white supremacy’ in tweet Forest drops lawsuit tate Board of Education mem- against Cooper ber James Ford tied “swing voters” and “white moder- ates” to “white supremacy” in a t. Gov. Dan Forest has nor, who is running against Coo- Slate-night tweet Aug. 17. dropped his lawsuit against per for governor, wanted the court The tweet responded to the Gov. Roy Cooper over the to throw out Cooper’s executive Democratic National Convention, governor’s COVID-19 executive orders shutting down much of the which opened its virtual nominat- Lorders. Josh Stein, N.C attorney economy. ing convention that day. Democrats general, tweeted the news Aug. Forest argued Cooper exceed- formally nominated former Vice 13. ed his authority under the Emer- President Joe Biden as their presi- Forest’s decision not to con- gency Management Act and dential nominee the next night. tinue the legal challenge comes failed to seek concurrence from Ford called out the DNC for shortly after a trial judge refused the Council of State for his orders. “playing to swing voters” and to grant a preliminary injunction Judge James Gale disagreed with “white moderates,” which he then in the case. The lieutenant gover- Forest’s reasoning. connected to “white supremacy.” Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, man Eric Davis, Johnson said, but if tion. appointed Ford to the state educa- Ford can’t do that then he should at Ford’s bio on the Center for Ra- tion board in 2018 to fill a vacan- least resign from the Strategic Plan- cial Equity in Education website de- Younger children carry cy for the state’s southwest region. ning Committee. scribes him as an “equity warrior” Because Ford filled a vacancy, the “DPI and the State Board face who has written about race and ed- smaller COVID-19 General Assembly wasn’t required many challenges moving forward, ucation in Education Post, EdWeek, to confirm his appointment. and your inflammatory rheto- Charlotte Magazine, Charlotte Agen- On Thursday, state Superinten- ric harms our mission to provide a da, and EducationNC. risk, doctor says dent Mark Johnson weighed in. sound, basic education to all stu- CJ sent an email to Ford asking if “Given your leadership role on dents,” Johnson said. he stood by his tweet. He didn’t re- A DOCTOR TOLD the State Board, while you might Cooper didn’t respond to a Caro- spond. lawmakers of those hospitalized need in- not find the current Democratic Par- lina Journal email asking whether he He did, however, refer to CJ’s that children younger than 10 tensive care, but children face ty leadership to be very inspiring, it felt the statement was appropriate original story in an Aug.