North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party

[guno]

Even some republicans here in NC are waking up, NC has a strong history or progressivism across party lines




Here’s why Jason Thigpen, an NC house candidate and war veteran, renounced the GOP and joined the Democratic party.
War veteran Jason Thigpen had been a member of the Republican Party. He was even running for Congress on the GOP ticket in North Carolina. But no longer. The purple heart recipient officially renounced the GOP in a message on his website on Monday.

“I simply cannot stand with a Party where its most extreme element promote hate and division amongst people,” Thigpen explained. “Nothing about my platform has, nor will it change. The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore… I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn’t walk their line.”

North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party

 

[guno]

Even some republicans here in NC are waking up, NC has a strong history or progressivism across party lines




Here’s why Jason Thigpen, an NC house candidate and war veteran, renounced the GOP and joined the Democratic party.
War veteran Jason Thigpen had been a member of the Republican Party. He was even running for Congress on the GOP ticket in North Carolina. But no longer. The purple heart recipient officially renounced the GOP in a message on his website on Monday.

“I simply cannot stand with a Party where its most extreme element promote hate and division amongst people,” Thigpen explained. “Nothing about my platform has, nor will it change. The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore… I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn’t walk their line.”

North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party

“I didn’t go to war to defend the liberties and freedoms of one Party, race, sex, or one income class of Americans. Whether white, black, Hispanic, Asian, man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, rich, or poor – we fought together as equals, side-by-side for the benefit of every American in the same. So, to come home from serving our country and see North Carolina legislators using their super-majority status to gerrymander districts and pass a law to deliberately suppress and oppress the voting rights of Democrats but more specifically minorities and college students, is absolutely deplorable.”

Jason Thigpen even defended a woman’s right to choose, and had strong words for the GOP-led legislature that passed anti-abortion laws in North Carolina.

“This same group of spineless legislators piggybacked a motorcycle safety bill with legislation intentionally geared to shut down women’s health clinics because of their ‘right righteous’ beliefs on abortion, while then cutting funding to the programs which help feed and provide healthcare to the babies they invariably forced the same women to have. Sounds like the Christian thing to do, huh?”

 

[Desperado]

He got one part right when he said "I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore"
but it is the Democrats that promote this idea. For the Democrats you cannot be just an American anymore,
you have the be a hyphenated American, such as a Jewish-American or a Muslim-American or Cuban-American!
It is the Democrats that are dividing America.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Another Democrat out of the closet.

 

[Penelope]

Found this on is site: When will the GOP learn SS and Medicare are not entitlement programs, but that people have paid in to them all their working lifes, without a choice.


Social Security & Medicare
• Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements but benefits earned through lifetime of hard work and paying into both programs
• Keep our commitment to seniors by preserving both programs
• Raise cap on taxable income for Social Security
• No privatization of Social Security
• No voucher system for Medicare

 

[CrusaderFrank]

He sounds bitter and frustrated, clutching his guns and religion

 

[mudwhistle]

Even some republicans here in NC are waking up, NC has a strong history or progressivism across party lines




Here’s why Jason Thigpen, an NC house candidate and war veteran, renounced the GOP and joined the Democratic party.
War veteran Jason Thigpen had been a member of the Republican Party. He was even running for Congress on the GOP ticket in North Carolina. But no longer. The purple heart recipient officially renounced the GOP in a message on his website on Monday.

“I simply cannot stand with a Party where its most extreme element promote hate and division amongst people,” Thigpen explained. “Nothing about my platform has, nor will it change. The government shutdown was simply the straw that broke the camels back. I guess being an American just isn’t good enough anymore… I refuse to be part of an extremist movement in the GOP that only appears to thrive on fear and hate mongering of anyone and everyone who doesn’t walk their line.”

North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party

Sucks......in KY the opposite is happening.