You do the crime, you gotta do the time

 

If you feel like Charlotte has become a more dangerous place over the past few years, you’re right. The numbers don’t lie:

• Charlotte crime rates are 74 percent higher than the national average.
• Violent crimes in Charlotte are 116 percent higher than the national average.
• In Charlotte you have a 1-in-25 chance of becoming a victim of crime.
• Charlotte is safer than just 6 percent of the cities in the United States.

Charlotte, NC Crime Rates & Map (areavibes.com)

“With a crime rate of 42 per one thousand residents, Charlotte has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 24.”

Charlotte, NC Crime Rates and Statistics - NeighborhoodScout

 

CMPD is over 500 police officers short. The police department is just above 50 percent strength and losing the battle of attrition as officers continue leaving the force in droves.

 

Currently, CMPD’s Human Trafficking Task Force has two detectives. Oops…one just took early retirement. So it’s one. The State Bureau of Investigation has… drum roll please… ZERO law enforcement officers solely dedicated to our human trafficking disaster and have almost ZERO communications with our local law enforcement.

 

Anyone wonder why this is?  Or why violent crime in Charlotte is spiraling out of control?  Anyone wonder why Charlotte is the 6th worst city in America for human trafficking?

 

I have a few ideas:

 

“Don’t wait until November.  Bring this nation to its knees now.  This country has never cared about your well-being.”

—tweeted June 24, 2022, by City Councilman Braxton Winston, a leader of the 2017 Charlotte riots (see picture below)

 

“Being Black in America under #45 has created homegrown terrorist wearing blue uniforms”

-Former City Councilwoman and CURRENT CANDIDATE for Charlotte City Council Lawanna Mayfield

 

 

Senate Bill 101: “An Act to require compliance with Immigration Detainers and Administrative Warrants and to require certain reports from local Law Enforcement.”

-       VETOED by Governor Roy Cooper on July 11, 2022. 

 

 

Gov. Roy Cooper just vetoed his 75th bill Monday. This one on a bill requiring NC Sheriff’s to cooperate with ICE.

 

With the utter lack of respect shown to law enforcement and to the rule of law by Democrats in control of the Charlotte City Council and the North Carolina executive branch, it’s not surprising that our communities have become more dangerous places.

 

This is real… it’s happening right now in North Carolina. It’s a theatre of the absurd and you can’t make this stuff up.  Not even for a horror movie.

 

I will do everything in my power to empower law enforcement officers across Charlotte and across our state when you elect me to the State Senate on November 8. Enough is ENOUGH!

 

Kings Mountain

Yesterday and Today’s Battlefield

 

As the 4th of July approaches, it’s time to get the grills going and the festive attitude on. It’s time to celebrate the freedoms that God gave us and the nation our forefathers built. The Revolution was won right here in the South, and the battle that set the stage for our victory actually occurred just west of Charlotte in Kings Mountain. It began on October 7, 1780, when hundreds of Patriots descended on the Tories and handed them one of the biggest defeats of the war. The impetus for this thrashing? The arrogant and crude threats of British army leaders, who wanted to intimidate the Colonists into surrendering and taking up arms for the King. This was unacceptable to these tough mountaineers, and they explained it perfectly with their actions, rather than words. The Battle of Kings Mountain holds lessons for all those who seem eager to strip us of our freedoms today. 

 

 

   When threatened, we fight back

 

How many of you have ever heard of the Battle of Kings Mountain? My seventh great grandfather fought in that battle when he was 17, so I’ve known of it since I was a kid. His uncle, Colonel Thomas Robeson, was the Revolutionary War hero for whom Robeson County—located 100 miles east of Charlotte—was named.

 

In the summer of 1780, the British and their Loyalists were winning the Revolutionary War. They had conquered Charleston and Camden and were continuing their fiery March north, toward Charlotte and the rest of North Carolina.  

 

The British sent word to the mountain frontier settlements that if the Colonists didn't lay down their arms, they would "march (their) army over the mountains, hang (our) leaders, and lay waste the country with fire and sword."

 

The overly confident British didn’t realize that threats made to rugged frontiersmen would have the exact opposite effect that they had seen in all their other wars around the world. The now famous “Overmountain Men” marched down from the mountains of North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, and absolutely obliterated the British Loyalist army at Kings Mountain, on the border between North and South Carolina. The Colonists laid waste to the enemy. It was guerrilla warfare, and it damaged the enemy so badly that almost exactly a year later, British forces limped their way to Yorktown, Virginia, and surrendered to General Washington. 

 

 

I share this story to explain what is going to happen to anyone who threatens us, as freedom-loving, average Americans. Stripping us of our fundamental rights through mask and vaccine mandates are your first shots, and when we don’t comply, we know what’s next from you, our oppressors. But when you think that you will succeed in subjugating us, remember the Battle of Kings Mountain. Remember where you were the day you heard this story. Because you will remember it for the rest of your lives if you continue down the road of oppressing the people of North Carolina and the United States of America.

 

The sole purpose of the government founded by our forefathers was to protect our God-given freedoms. We have maintained that government for 250 years, and we must continue to do so with the spirit of those who fought the Battle of Kings Mountain.

 

 

Taxation Without Representation

Mecklenburg led the way in defiance of the British Crown.

The spirit of the American Revolution is embodied by our Declaration of Independence which speaks of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. But did you know this declaration was not the first act of defiance against the British Crown? It started initially over what has come to be known as taxation without representation.

On May 20, 1775, a group of fed-up Charlotteans wrote what is called the “Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence” and had it delivered by horseback to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.  In doing so, we became the first place in America to show, in writing, our desire to dissolve our political bonds from Britain. This was more than a year before Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776.  This date is so important in our history that it is inscribed on our state flag even to this day.

Ever since then, our revolutionary spirit has seen Charlotte grow from a small crossroads of Indian Trading paths to a booming economic center, the second largest banking center in the U.S. and the largest city in North Carolina.

 

All these years later, in spite of our success, taxes remain a real problem for North Carolinians.  Thankfully President Trump pushed through income tax reform but taxes come in many forms.  Another serious form of “taxation” is called inflation.  

Inflation is that economic pressure that forces prices to go up quickly and dramatically faster than wages.  When this happens, each dollar you earn will buy you less and less.  It reduces your purchasing power the same as if government took additional money out of your pocket through traditional taxes.

Government might not write inflation into the tax code, but as the great economist Milton Friedman said, “Inflation comes from one place and one place only… government mishandling of the economy.”  The Biden administration’s enormous overspending and excessive bail-out plans have sent inflation

through the roof.  This and many of their crazy liberal schemes drive up spending and make the situation worse.  The tax of inflation is perhaps the most insidious of taxes because it is not codified on the books and is usually only cured by forcing interest rates high and putting the economy into a recession.

We can fix a tax problem unique to Mecklenburg County.

As citizens of Mecklenburg County, we face yet another tax challenge, but this is much easier to fix.  Mecklenburg County is being ignored in the state capitol. Mecklenburg is one of 100 counties yet over 20% of NC’s annual tax revenue comes from us.  How much of our taxes make it back here to Charlotte?  Far less.   I am in favor of reducing state taxes overall but of the taxes we pay, I will work to claw back the “fair share” of tax revenue back here to Mecklenburg County.

One reason this happens is that Mecklenburg County’s delegation to Raleigh is made up of 17 Senators and House members. 17.  Only 1 is a Republican and he is in Huntersville. The other 16 represent the radical left-wing ideology of the NATIONAL Democrat party and it means they aren’t bothering to represent the people that elected them.  Literally, they are supported by, and funded by radical national PACs and groups with a hardcore-liberal ideals.  And the Mecklenburg delegation pushes that agenda, not that of the people of our county.  

Here in Mecklenburg County, when you elect me to the NC Senate, you will be getting a senator who will actually represent his constituents, the citizens of Senate district 39.   The people in office now are simply not doing that.

Mark Robeson's Position on Taxes & Spending

Mark opposes higher taxes for families and hard-working people. He believes government needs to live within its means and control spending. As our Senator, Mark will fight for lower taxes and responsible spending in Raleigh while at the same time ensuring that the largest city and the economic powerhouse of our state has a seat at the table when it comes time to plan where our state’s $26B budget is allocated.  Charlotte has been ignored long enough because it continues sending a Democrat delegation to a Republican controlled legislature and it’s time to get our city back on track.

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"You can't be for big taxes, big government and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy!" 

 

-President Ronald W. Reagan

I am one of the independent thinking Republicans who does not fear Cooper.  By electing me and others like me, we can give the house and senate the super- majority needed to override any veto that Cooper enacts in his last years in office.  To do so,  voters must send two more Republicans to the Senate and three more Republicans to the House than we currently have.