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Sue Myrick's Warning of Terror Threat Is Main Course at GOP Women's Lunch
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyThe 100 or so people who attended the meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Republican Women felt uneasy about the state of the country for a variety of reasons. But the group's president, Linda Jones, summed up her No. 1 concern this way: "It's a perceived loss of freedom" in America. Jones judged the speech of U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, the guest at Wednesday's Charlotte luncheon meeting, "fabulous." If an earlier speaker set the stage by expressing happiness at being in a room "filled with people who love the Lord, respect the flag and understand that freedom isn't free," Myrick won the ...
13,500 Toy Soldiers Fight a War Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Activists protesting the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy attempted to deliver 13,500 plastic toy soldiers to the Charlotte office of U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) on Thursday. After discussions with building security and Myrick staffers, who said the office was too small to accommodate the nine, five-gallon camouflage buckets, two protesters were allowed to deliver a letter and nearly half of the toy soldiers, collected over the last month to represent gay and lesbian service members discharged under the policy since 1994. The campaign, organized by the ...
Rep. Sue Myrick Adds Web Video to Her Fight Against 'Islamofascism'
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics Daily"It isn't Sue Myrick against the Muslims." That's what the congresswoman representing the ninth district in North Carolina (my home district) told me on Monday. "I want to start a conversation with America." In a phone conversation with me, Myrick said one reason she's added video warnings to her fight against "the dangers we face from Islamofascism" -- as it's labeled on her congressional Web site -- is to highlight the voices of the majority of Muslims, "the moderate mainstream." They are as concerned as she is about "radical Islamic extremists" and the "long list of attacks that have been ...
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