Carolina Politics Online

No, I am not back from vacation. I’m still in Boston, but I’m breaking my pledge to myself not to post while I’m away because, well, this was just too good to pass up.

Griffith also cut an ad for Bev Perdue in the 2008 election and well, look how that’s turned out.

Alvin Greene has been South Carolina’s Democratic Senate nominee for less than two months but already a Washington watchdog group is nailing him as one of the most “crooked” politicians in the nation.

Greene, the political neophyte who came out of nowhere to win the Democratic nomination to face GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, made the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington’s recently-issued list of the “most corrupt and unethical candidates vying for federal office in 2010.”

The “crooked candidates” list focuses on office-seekers “who have engaged in unethical and, in one case, even criminal conduct,” according to CREW.

Politico

He hasn’t even been elected yet and Alvin Greene has already been labeled as one of the most crooked politicians in the country.

“When Mr. Greene won the primary he had engaged in no fundraising, had no website and had no organized campaign,” CREW wrote. “Given Mr. Greene’s apparent lack of funds, CREW and others raised questions about whether someone had paid the $10,440 fee to file as a candidate with his own money.”

Greene has already been cleared of any wrongdoing on his filing fee, although he did take a taxpayer funded lawyer for his pending felony charge when he clearly had the money to pay for him.

CREW also explained that it named the South Carolina Democrat to its list because of a 2009 obscenity charge.

“Alvin Greene is on there mainly because he’s facing a felony charge,” Deputy Research Director Robin Powers said. “Why would you want someone representing you who’s facing criminal charges right now? Americans deserve a better candidate than Alvin Greene.”

“If you can’t even file your statement of candidacy, why should you be running the country?” Powers added.

Being charged with a crime doesn’t mean you’re guilty of it.  If Greene is convicted then so be it, but we are still innocent until proven guilty in this country.  If he is found guilty it will be interesting to see if he steps out of the race or if the Democratic Party uses legal means to force him to.  I think we are going to see a lot of fireworks in this race before the election.  Just a hunch.

Mount Pleasant — A group of 10 rallied Monday morning on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard to denounce Sen. Lindsey Graham for his support of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.

Staff members from Operation Rescue-Insurrecta Nex, an organization that wants to make abortion illegal, stood outside in the heat for the “Beating, Burning and Hanging Lindsey ‘Benedict Arnold’ Graham in Effigy” protest.

“Lindsey Graham claims he’s a Christian, but he’s a traitor,” said Randall Terry, the group’s director. The protesters said Graham is using babies as part of his political game.

Graham’s office would not comment on the protests but said in a prepared statement that although he does not agree with Kagan’s legal or judiciary philosophies, Graham does think she is qualified, has good character and understands the difference between being a judge and politician.

The Post and Courier

An entire ten people?  Oh yeah, that must have really rattled ole Lindsey.  They sound like a bunch of kooks to me.  Graham is using babies as a political game?  Uh, how about looking at yourself in the mirror Mr Terry.  You sound like an idiot.

As I said before, there are certain battles you fight and others you don’t.  The Kagan nomination isn’t one of them.  The Democrats have 59 seats in the Senate, plus a few of the moderate Yankees who have already given Kagan their blessing, so the numbers are more than there for confirmation and they have enough to break a filibuster.  Attempting to filibuster Kagan would be absurd and it would only backfire on the Republican Party and the Democrats would undoubtedly return the favor the next time a Republican president nominates a Supreme Court justice.  If they want to vote against her in an up and down vote, that’s fine.

Kagan’s appointment to the court does not shift the balance.  She won’t be any more or less radical than her predecessor.  Those ten people have a right to have their protest, but they are just wasting their time.  They have zero chance of stopping the Kagan confirmation and Lindsey Graham doesn’t give a crap about their complaints.

Members of several local tea parties say a resolution passed this month by NAACP delegates condemning elements of racism within the nationwide grassroots movement is misguided and unfair.

The NAACP resolution calls upon “all people of goodwill to repudiate the racism of the tea parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era,” said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP’s Washington bureau.

The resolution will not become official unless it is ratified by the group’s board of directors in October. A spokesman for the NAACP in Washington said that until then, the group will not release the text of the document.

Mary Amonitti has attended several meetings and rallies organized by the Hilton Head TEA Party and has been a member of the NAACP for most of her adult life, founding a chapter in suburban Philadelphia in the 1990s, she said.

The tea party’s values — lower taxes, smaller government and personal responsibility — cut across racial boundaries, she said. Those who accuse the tea party of racism are merely trying to discredit the movement without engaging the issues it represents.

The resolution is evidence the NAACP is no longer a nonpartisan organization, she said.

The Beaufort Gazette

Bingo!  This is what I’ve been getting at for a long time now.  The NAACP has ceased to be an organization that advocates the betterment of black Americans, but instead has become nothing more than a political arm for the Democratic Party.  Racial equality overall has been achieved in this country.  We have our first black president for God’s sake.  That doesn’t mean that there aren’t still racists and bigots out there.  Those people will always exist, but the days of white schools and black schools and white restrooms and black restrooms are long behind us.  The NAACP stirs up controversy when there isn’t any in order to keep the funding coming in so the guys at the top can keep their power.  They have a vested interest in keeping racial tensions alive, not ridding us of them.

“During the time President Bush was in office, they made all sorts of statements about him that were untrue — vicious statements, calling him names,” Amonitti said. “I never saw where the NAACP resolved that their members were disrespectful of the office of the president.”

Julian Bond, the recently retired chairman of the NAACP is complete crackpot.  He was infamous for making outrageously over the top accusations about the right wing and the Republican Party, frequently referring to them as the Taliban wing of American politics.  Where were the NAACP resolutions criticizing Bond’s outrageous accusations during his 12 years as chairman?

The NAACP shares some of the same concerns of the tea party, said Elijudah Beni Yisrael, president of the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton branch of the NAACP. But the manner in which some tea party supporters have gone about highlighting those problems is alarming, he said.

“They’re trying to stir up distasteful feelings between blacks and whites,” he said.

How so? What evidence does Mr. Yisrael have to back up his accusations?  Because they criticize the policies of a black president?  Is nobody not of color permitted to do so? The Tea Party Express threw Mark Williams overboard after he wrote his racially tinged letter directed at the NAACP on the heals of their resolution against the tea party, did they not?  It seems to me that the tea party is willing to hold its members accountable for distasteful actions, but the NAACP is not.  The only group to stir up distasteful racial feelings was the NAACP with their loony resolution!

Daniel Denton, a supporter of the Beaufort Tea Party, said such views are not representative of the movement.

“I think if you look at any organization, you’re going to find a few wackos,” he said. “But to pass a resolution criticizing and condemning the entire movement and the issues they stand for was, I think, uncalled for.”

The whole point of that resolution was to get attention and get themselves in the news and it worked.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s.

Nineteen people were arrested, including the head of state NAACP chapter who was banned from the meeting after a trespassing arrest at a June school board gathering.

The AP

The “arrestees” include Reverend Jelly-Belly.

“We know that our cause is right,” the Rev. William Barber said shortly before police put plastic handcuffs on his wrists before the meeting started.

You can watch the gathering here.  It was more like a parade of self-loathing, attention seeking “victims” and aging hippie liberal douches trying to relive their glory years.

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, resegregation has got to go,” some protesters chanted.

Oh, how original.

At a morning rally that drew 1,000 people, speakers quoted Martin Luther King Jr., remembered the days of segregated water fountains and likened the current situation to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education battle.

And what they fail to mention is that a good chunk of those 1,000 people were from out of town, so who gives a crap?

Instead of actually taking on racism and prejudice coming from people of all races, the NAACP has decided to start a political war against the Tea Party movement. The NAACP has on many occasions violated its tax exempt status, but we know that there is no way that the Obama administration will ever send the IRS to investigate them. With the Obama administration perverting justice by withdrawing charges against the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia, we can never expect to get justice in Washington.

ABC reports about this declaration of a political war by the NAACP against the Tea party movement.

The NAACP’s resolution condemning what it calls racist elements within the Tea Party is drawing fire from top Tea Party supporters, including Sarah Palin, as the civil rights group’s president insists the party needs to “expel racists from the ranks.”

The NAACP has racists within its ranks and with the support of the New Black Panthers we can rightfully call the NAACP hypocrites. A St. Louis Tea Party groups replies with its own resolution.

The St. Louis Tea Party coalition on Monday evening passed a resolution of its own condemning the NAACP for “hypocritically engaging in the very conduct it purports to oppose.” The resolution calls on the NAACP to withdraw its resolution. It even urges the IRS to reconsider its tax-exempt status of the NAACP because of what the Tea Party coalition dubbed the organization’s “habitual partisan political behavior.”

A former NAACP chapter President and now Tea Party leader has a message for the NAACP.

“Those ideas that Tea Party people are racist and that we’re trying to instigate a racist climate in this country, that’s simply a lie. That’s out and out falsehood,” said Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former president of NAACP’s Garland, Texas, chapter who is now a leading Tea Party activist.
“I have not heard one racial slur that came out of that march,” said Bryant, referring to the Tea Party protest on Capitol Hill where members of Congress alleged racist comments. “Those were simply Americans who were protesting.”

The NAACP and union attacks are simply a method of distraction to support Obama and the many left wing Democrats who are under electoral siege by the voters. As in my N.C. State House (District 33) race against Rosa Gill, a vote for her is a vote for Barack Obama and his policies. A vote for me is a vote to take back our state and nation and return it back to the people. It is time to return America back to a nation of equal opportunity, not redistribution of wealth. Use your vote, your time, and your money to help us turn back Obama.

“Everything I’m doing now in terms of talking about climate, talking about immigration, talking about Gitmo is completely opposite of where the Tea Party movement’s at,” Graham said as Cato drove him to the city of Greenwood, where he was to give a commencement address at Lander University later that morning. On four occasions, Graham met with Tea Party groups. The first, in his Senate office, was “very, very contentious,” he recalled. During a later meeting, in Charleston, Graham said he challenged them: “ ‘What do you want to do? You take back your country — and do what with it?’ . . . Everybody went from being kind of hostile to just dead silent.”

In a previous conversation, Graham told me: “The problem with the Tea Party, I think it’s just unsustainable because they can never come up with a coherent vision for governing the country. It will die out.” Now he said, in a tone of casual lament: “We don’t have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.” Chortling, he added, “Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.”

The New York Times

Is Graham correct?  A lot of pundits have compared 2010 to 1994 when the Republicans took over Congress for the first time in 40 years, but running up to the 1994 elections the party was coalesced around a leader, that being Newt Gingrich.  There really is no such coalition among the tea party groups, but that may also be because they really are a grassroots movement starting from the bottom up.  There really is no one “tea party,” but several tea party organizations all around the country sprouting up on their own and doing their own organizing.

Furthermore, are some of the candidates too radical for mainstream America?

Graham’s political cunning may not in the end produce a lasting legacy, but as high-wire theater it rivals the parallel antics of his denouncers on the far right. “If you look at the Republicans who are likely to come into the Senate in 2010,” he said during our last meeting, “they’re gonna be more like me, not less like me.”

Catching himself, he added with a toothy grin, “Now, this lady from Nevada?” — referring to Sharron Angle, the Tea Party’s Republican favorite who will face Harry Reid in November. “Probably not.”

Democrats were breathing a sigh of relief when Sharron Angle got the Republican nomination to run against Harry Reid.  While Angle still out polls Reid by double digits, some think that gap is going to close as more people hear about some of her more extreme positions.  For instance, she opposes abortion even in the case of rape, which is not a mainstream American view.  My impression of the tea party is that they were starting up to combat the massive spending and encroachment of freedom by the Federal government, but they have been backing some candidates with some very extreme conservative cultural opinions.

I think Graham made a good point about Reagan too.  When Ronald Reagan was governor of California he raised taxes and loosened abortion restrictions, not to mention that as president he ran up the national debt pretty high.  He would be deemed impure by many conservatives and tea party members today, yet I often hear many conservatives stating that we need another Ronald Reagan.

As far as Graham goes, it’s not a surprise that tea partiers don’t like him and libertarian fellows like myself despise the man.  He’s a neocon hold out from the Bush years.  His push for amnesty for illegals and his support of Cap and Trade are considerably out of touch with the electorate of this state.  He has no qualms participating in the appropriations pork fest with our tax dollars.  I posted a poll about a month ago that showed if Graham were to be up for reelection this year, he’d lose.  He isn’t up again until 2014 and that’s a long time for people to hold angst against the man.

A coalition of four environmental, labor and veterans groups began airing an ad today showing an oil-covered man – identified as Burr – being pulled out of the ocean like a sea bird. The man in the suit is shown being cleaned in a rescue operation, reports Rob Christensen.

Under the Dome

The irony here is that these groups probably also supported President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign and he received more donations from BP than any other American politician.

The Burr campaign noted that Burr had just introduced legislation that would encourage the country to become less oil dependent through tax policies to encourage nuclear power, electric vehicles and natural gas vehicles.

“If the groups running this ad would stop long enough to realize that Senator Burr just introduced an energy bill that has the greatest offset on emissions, they might not have wasted so much money,” said Samantha Smith, Burr’s campaign spokeswoman.

Unknown vandals unhappy about atheists’ billboard in Charlotte, N.C., spray-painted “Under God” on the ad, the city’s atheist association discovered Monday. The defaced message will remain in place until after July 4, the group reports, which is the soonest that workers can furnish a fresh billboard image.

The billboard reads, “One Nation Indivisible,” which is the phrase preceding the 1954 insertion of the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, reports the Charlotte Observer’s Tim Funk. The billboard was erected on Billy Graham Parkway last week. (Graham is, of course, the state’s famous evangelical preacher.)

Similar North Carolina ads have gone up in Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem as a Fourth of July project by the area’s atheist association. The group has filed a police report and will replace the billboard.

Yahoo! News

I bet who ever vandalized this billboard was pretty upset when they saw anti-war protesters opposing George Bush defacing him on signs and other media.

Everybody has the right to free speech.  Just because someone doesn’t believe in God doesn’t mean they are subjected to having any less rights to their opinion than the majority who do believe.  Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics paid for the use of the billboard and they have just as much right to voice their opinion as anybody else.  These vandals have absolutely no respect for the First Amendment of our Constitution, yet I’ll bet the cowards consider themselves great American patriots.

On a related note, a lot of people don’t even know that the phrase “under God” was not part of the original Pledge of Allegiance.  It was added to it over 60 years later as a symbol to combat the growing threat of Communism in the eastern world.

Oh, glory, glory hallelujah! My prayers have been answered!

Recent readers of this blog know the contempt in which I hold the Rev. Racist Piece-of-Shit. His only skill in life, aside from eating, is sowing schism and spreading discord wherever his obtuse ass makes an appearance.

The evidence is overwhelming that the “diversity” policy has done nothing -nothing- to help low-income and minority students and has arguably hurt them instead. If this carnival barker was really concerned about quality education for black kids, why wasn’t he pulling this shit when test scores and minority graduation rates went down ? Oh, because they went down when his friends and supporters of his beloved diversity policy were in power. But now that he sees a chance to do a little race-baiting and get some power for himself by spreading fear and hate, you can’t keep his fat face out of the news.

Police arrested four civil rights protesters, including state NAACP head Rev. William Barber and author Tim Tyson, after they refused to leave tonight’s Wake County school board meeting. The arrests started about an hour-and-a-half after the biracial group disrupted the meeting, speaking and singing to empty seats when the board recessed, then taking over the elective body’s own seats.

The protest began when Margiotta called a recess of the board and Barber, state leader of the NAACP, objected.

“We’d like to finish the public comment period at this time,” Barber said. “We’ve not had an opportunity to speak.”

Margiotta offered Barber and the others a chance to speak after the recess.

“We’re going to do it now,” Barber said. “We are engaging in nonviolent resistance. We will not release the podium.”

Board members have now come back into session and the leaders are being given a chance to speak. Petty is pastor of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, a Raleigh church with a long history of activism.

“Who does benefit from your recent decisions?” Petty asked. “Our entire community? Or selected communities where the wealthiest live?”

The N&O

A few days ago I posted a video of a tea party protester getting punched in the face by someone presumably on the left in front of Mel Watt’s Congressional office in Greensboro.  The tea party protester has been identified as Forsyth County GOP Chairman Nathan Tabor.  The man who hit him has been identified as Govenor Spencer.  Both men are claiming the other assaulted him first and both are pressing charges.

Tabor says they were protesting a proposed amendment that would give companies money to help with rising credit card fees. He says he was videotaping the event when Govenor Spencer, of Greensboro, approached the protest.

“About that time a gentleman walks around the corner and walks into the middle of the crowd saying it’s all George W. Bush’s fault. It’s all Dick Cheney’s fault.” Tabor said.

The video shows Spencer and at least one protester arguing. Tabor says he stopped recording as the protest began to conclude and walked over to the sidewalk where his wife and 5-year-old daughter were standing.

“As I walked around the corner this gentleman pushed me. And when he pushed me the first time I turned my camera on and brought my camera up. I said please don’t push me. And when I said that he slapped my camera.” Tabor said. “He pushes me again. In the video you can see my body fall back. And I did not say anything to him, I didn’t engage him. I was going to, until he touched me wife.”

Tabor says Spencer pushed his wife and he pushed Spencer back. The video shows Spencer then punching Tabor in the face.

FOX

And once again your intrepid N.C. correspondent will be there, reporting on all the happenings going on behind closed doors that they don’t want you to know about.

Actually… no I won’t. Oh, I’ll be there. But what goes on behind closed doors usually stays there, unfortunately. But if I pick up any scuttlebutt I’ll be sure to post it. I’m already hearing A LOT of grumbling against Tom Fetzer. Fetzer has, quite clearly, violated party rules by taking sides in a primary. It was also politically stupid of him- all he did was enhance Tim’s “us vs. them” story line. Fetzer is also taking some heat for paying himself a lot of money while state house and senate candidates are starving for funds.

But hey, it’s not like anyone told you to vote for someone else or anything…

If anyone else is attending, I’d like to hear your thoughts on the proceedings; post  ‘em below, and I’ll see you there.

[UPDATE] Day 1 has come and gone, and absolutely nothing of interest has happened. Tomorrow should be interesting, though. I hear on good authority that a resolution condemning the smoking ban will be introduced on the floor. We’ll see how that one turns out. There will be other resolutions, boring speeches, and maybe something interesting. Maybe.

Oh, and our commenter Milko will be pleased to know that there is a nudie bar across the street from the convention center and right next to the hotel! Oh, I’d LOVE to see what might come of this!

[UPDATE 2] And once again I keep wondering why I waste my time on these things. Yeah, yeah… I’m a glutton for punishment. Anyways, Day 2 revolved around kissing Richard Burr’s ass. Funny, considering that he’s been a mediocre senator and a weak conservative. If they wanted to accomplish anything, and wanted to help him win in Novemeber, they should have kicked his ass all day instead.

Then we proceeded into the most boring thing ever: three hours of preening peacocks fully enjoying their time at the microphone. I nodded off a couple times, so I don’t really know what happened, but I’m sure it was totally useless and changed nothing.

Resolutions, one of the few interesting things during these conventions, was ruined again by the dais-dwelling establishment. Resolutions are always fun because we have real debates about philosophy. Or… we should. We don’t, actually, becasuse the resolutions committee is a tool for Tom Fetzer & Co., and they don’t like controversial resolutions being introduced. So instead we had to spend 2 hours talking about… Iran and how awesome Richard Burr is. There were a few others, but I don’t even remember them.

Meanwhile, some activisits tried to bring up some real resolutions that actually mattered, but the convention was conviniently adjourend before they had a chance to do so. Among those resolutions were a criticism of the smoking ban and a pro-gun statement.

The final big event of the convention was a dinner featuring Herman Cain. I didn’t go, but I’m told it went well.

Now it’s time to head back. I’m so glad I wasted an entire weekend and some of my money to do this. Don’t you wish you did too?

This happened in Washington D.C., but it involves a lobbyist for Bank of America which is headquartered here in Charlotte, so I think it applies to Carolina politics. Over the weekend, an SEIU mob stormed the private property of Mr. Greg Baer, a lobbyist for Bank of America, and commandeered his front lawn and porch for several minutes while they raved and ranted, blaming everybody but themselves for their misery, which is what far left extremists do. During the whole fiasco, Baer’s teenage son was home by himself scared shitless thinking these thugs were going to bust down the front door of their home.

Yes my friends, this is the face of Marxism.

I don’t know who that blonde bubble-headed bimbo is with the megaphone, but I imagine it wouldn’t be hard to find out her name and if I were Mr. Baer I would be prosecuting her and the others to the fullest extent of the law for the intimidation and threatening of my family and trespassing on private property. Thuggish behavior aside, again notice how this woman blames everybody but herself for her problems. I am not defending the poor lending practices that took place at many of the banks, but evidently Bank of America sat her down at gun point and forced her to sign a mortgage that she apparently could not afford. With the far left, it is always somebody else’s fault.

One other thing to note, there was no media present for this, no journalists, no reporters, no local news crews. If a tea party had behaved this way, however (which would never happen), the media would have been all over this. It would have been broadcast nationally. But not when good old Chicago style politics are in play. They are nowhere to be found.

I bring this up for three reasons. Whether you like/support/agree with the Tea Party or not, these three things are undeniable:

1) Wilmington is a really nice place and close to the beach
2) Michael Barone will be a guest speaker. Michael Barone is awesome.
3) Mary Katherine Ham is also a guest speaker, and MKH is beautiful and I want to marry her. If it wasn’t for that damn restraining order, I totally would too.

Anyways, it’s from Friday to Sunday and there’s still time to sign up I think. Here’s the link:

http://www.ncteapartysummit.com/ncteapartysummiteast.html

Today was day one of the NRA’s annual convention which this year is being held right here in Charlotte.  According to the Charlotte Observer, about 16,000 people went through the convention center today to participate in the various activities and listen to speeches by well known Second Amendment supporters like former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and famed actor Chuck Norris.  About 70,000 people are expected to attend by the time the event is over.  In fact, your truly was extended an invitation to attend for free being that I am a “respected” (ahem..) member of the alternative media community.  Unfortunately, time is a luxury for me and I never have nearly enough of it so I could not attend.  Plus, I just returned yesterday from a very relaxing vacation at the Outer Banks and even though I was home today my mind was still laying on the beach getting badly sunburned so I wasn’t ready to jump back into the fray and spend all day in uptown. Besides, I wouldn’t have been allowed to carry my gun on my person anyway, so where is the fun in that? Obviously if you allow 70,000 wingnuts who cling to their Bible and their guns to carry them with them they are going to shoot the place up, right?

Here are the speeches in full given by Sarah Palin and Chuck Norris today, courtesy of the Charlotte Observer.

Oh brother….

The “gay-baiting” begins at 6:20. Gheen comes out with this “revelation” the Lindsey Graham is homosexual. Of course, Gheen is a bit late to the game. That rumor has bounced around Washington and South Carolina political circles for a long time because naturally any man over the age of 40 who has never been married must surely be gay, right?

So two things come to mind. One, if Graham is gay, who gives a damn? I know, dumb question. We’re in the Bible Belt. The second thing is that for argument’s sake say Graham is gay, what the hell does that half to do with his support for illegal immigration? Well Gheen has jumped feet first into the endless ocean of what are Washington conspiracy theories and has concluded that Graham’s support for granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is due to his secret homosexual lifestyle being held over his head. It’s blackmail by President Obama and Janet Napolitano and any other bogeyman or woman you can conjure up.

Now, I think Mr. Gheen makes some very good points in regards to why we should oppose this resurrected push for amnesty, but he relegates himself to “kookdome” and World Nut Daily lunacy when he makes unsubstantiated allegations like this. Furthermore, in making these comments at the Greenville tea party he fuels the leftist media’s fire that the tea party movement is full of bigoted hateful neanderthals.

So William Gheen would be wise to heed Bane Windlow’s words of wisdom, those being, “Dude, for the love of Versace, shut the hell up.”

The National Rifle Association it holding it’s annual meeting and exhibit in Charlotte this year.  It will be held at the Charlotte Convention Center located at 501 South College Street.  The show hours are:

Ironically, nobody is permitted to carry a firearm with them because North Carolina state law prohibits the carrying of firearms in the Charlotte Convention Center aside from the likelihood that an armed NRA convention would probably be the most safe place to be in the entire country.