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Kay Hagan Supports Atheists and Segregationists. Only in North Carolina, Folks.

She gets money from people who want to end Christmas as a federal holiday and belongs to a Country Club that wouldn't let African-Americans through the front door until after 1995.

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 19th, 2008 at 03:54 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Yesterday, I pointed out how Kay Hagan and the Godless America PAC are connected. Hagan is running against Senator Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina.

To review: Godless America PAC wants to get all references to God off the money, out of the Pledge, and end Christmas as a federal holiday. One of their leaders got Kay Hagan to go up to Massachusetts for a big fundraiser with a bunch of atheists.

Let’s add to the pile:

Hagan lives on Meadowbrook Terrace in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her property is just down the street from the Greensboro Country Club. She and her husband have lived there since 1984. Charles, her husband, is a legacy member of Greensboro Country Club.

The Country Club didn’t allow black members until at least 1995. According to Michael Riley, writing in Time on June 25, 1990, “”Signs of separation persist in the city’s neighborhoods, nightclubs, gazes and words. A perspiring black man, nattily dressed in suspenders, white shirt and a hat, pushes a mower across a lush lawn just yards from the elite, whites-only Greensboro Country Club.“

Jack Scis, writing in the News & Record on April 6, 1995, noted, “Greensboro Country Club may join other clubs in admitting African-Americans.”

This year, in The News & Observer, Kay Hagan told Rob Christiensen, “The Hagans sent their children to the private Greensboro Day School and the family is a member of the Greensboro Country Club, which she said is racially integrated.“

Hagan just failed to leave out that she and her husband were members well before the County Club started letting black people through the front door. And you can get on Nexis yourself. You’ll find no record of Kay Hagan ever standing up publicly against the policy.

But you will find Hagan standing up with a bunch of atheists at a Massachusetts fundraiser held in her honor who want to get rid of Christmas and take “In God We Trust” off our money.

It’s all about priorities.

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  • nlj

    “Only in North Carolina.” Sounds a bit snide to me.

    Then again, I’m biased. I live in Raleigh.

    There’s much to dislike about Hagan without going into the whole country club thing, which is bound to affect Republicans as well.

    How about her belief that Social Security is a guarantee?

    Or her influence over the state budget and how our state taxes are high?

  • khelek

    I’m glad to see this stuff come out about Hagan. I’m disappointed that the race here is so close, but I believe that it is indicative of the job Dole has done for our state…while she did vote against the Senate Rescue bill, which I appreciate, I can’t think of much else she’s done.

    That said, I believe fully that Hagan will be far worse and will do what I can to stop her from being elected.

    Brian

  • tankertodd

    Funny how Hagan cites her state government experience as a plus. North Carolina has the highest taxes in the Southeast. Not exactly healthy for job creation.

    Lenoir did an infamous deal last year to attract Google jobs. 30 years of huge tax breaks for 210 new jobs. The people got ripped off by the “Do No Evil” Google folks. To attract jobs to North Carolina, We Can Do Better!

  • naraht

    I worked for a private company once where the company had 10 holidays a year and the Management decided to take a survey of the employees to help determine which days should be given as holidays for the company for the following year. Christmas came in second after the Fourth of July. Oddly enough New Year’s day almost didn’t make it onto the list.

    As long as at least 60% of this country answers “Christian” (or some subset thereof) to an “on the street” survey of religion, there isn’t even going to be any serious discussion of removing it.

    However, I could see in the next 20 years Columbus day disappearing. I wouldn’t have been that surprised if when MLK day was added if they had kept both presidents in February and gotten rid of Columbus day.

    Now “In God We Trust” and “Under God” in the pledge do have the wedge argument that if they (the coins and the pledge) are restored to their original situation that those phrases will disappear.

  • TPNoGa

    I am not in NC, but I have been very surprised Dole has to fight for her seat. Has this info made it into a commercial?

    My only hope is that 2002 repeats itself. I remember everyone thinking Dole was gonna lose to Bowles (the polls were very tight). Then she cruised to a victory. I am hoping she outperforms her polls. Am I living in a dream world? Or, can Dole really pull this one off?

    GO DOLE!

  • Rusty_S

    Holidays are simply part of the benefit package that employers use to attract and retain employees. Any employer, including Government employers, that doesn’t offer Christmas as a holiday is going to be at a disadvantage in that regard.

    As long as that is true, I think it will be difficult to make the case the Government can’t extend this benefit.

  • BullwinkleForVP

    I got one last week that explicitly mentioned the Godless American PAC (or whatever) and the threat to cancel Christmas.

    Frankly, it seemed a little too National Enquirer for me (ALIEN! BABY! FOUND!!!), since I don’t think that Hagen is really campaigning on the plank of eliminating Christmas as a paid holiday. I have a hard time believing that there are too many people who respond positively to this sort of claim from either side.

    I’d rather hear about what either of the candidates is going to do about our 7% unemployment rate, chronic water shortages, and loss of our core sources of employment in textiles, furniture, and agriculture. There are only so many Google campus deals we are going to get.

  • gamecock

    smile

  • Redstatechick

    My blood runs as red as everybody else’s, but hey — I think Kay Hagan is an Elder in her Presbyterian church. Is Elizabeth Dole teaching Sunday School or doing some kind of volunteer work in her church in Salisbury? Seems kind of unfair and unchristian to be that mean-spirited.

  • conservativepolitico

    well I don’t have a problem with her so-called “segregationist” ties no matter how you or anyone else tries to white-guilt spin it. It was a ideal concept and we wouldn’t have half the problems we do today had it truly been seperate but equal which it clearly was not.

    Also please don’t judge North Carolina simply by its location. Clearly you are writing from a biased outsider view. I don’t live there but I’ve been there and its overrun with Yankee and apologetic White liberals and is not the NC that you are thinking of, at least not in the racially diverse areas like Charlotte or ghetto Raleigh. There is nothing Southern about these cities.

    If you think NC as a whole is a “Southern state” you couldn’t be more wrong. Contemporary Southerners from urban areas like this don’t have the familiar accents and are in name “Southern” only when they have to defend their own beliefsand use their regional birth as a scapegoat. I see it all the time. They reflect nothing of the region’s known conservative values.

    If you think NC is “Southern” ask yourself why in the world are the polls so close? No real Southerner would ever vote for Obama who doesn’t represent any of their values. They are doing it out of white guilt and the many liberal transplants who have moved there.

    With that said, I do have a problem with her athiest ties and I hope this costs her.

  • jaybird

    Erick,

    Here’s a post from the News & Record on your post.

    Here

    I don’t know about Rob Christensen, but I know the other writer (now retired) was one of the last conservatives in the newspaper business (and my dad), so it’d be nice if we could get the names right.

  • Robin_Lionheart

    But you will find Hagan standing up with a bunch of atheists at a Massachusetts fundraiser held in her honor who want to get rid of Christmas and take “In God We Trust” off our money.

    I believe the latter, but not the former.

    As I said in the last thread, “In God We Trust” is an insult to every patriotic nonbeliever. That motto spits on the grave of troops like Corporal Pat Tillman, who sacrificed his life serving a country whose money declares “you’re not one of us, you’re not American”.

    But GAMPAC wanting to get rid of Christmas? I don’t believe it. That’s gotta be a straw man.

    Show me some evidence GAMPAC ever tried to “get rid of Christmas”.