Second quarter campaign finance reports show that Arthur Williams is spending big to try to win his race against grassroots candidate Mattie Lawson. While Lawson depends most on volunteers Williams is spending big for consultants much of it being spent out of state or the district. The top of the list is Cornerstone Solutions of West Palm Beach, AK. Williams has paid them $22,000. Of local interest, he has paid "Washington Strategy Group" which is reported to be Bill Tarpenning and Ashley Woolard $2250. He even paid himself $500.
The most interesting expenditures on the report were made to Jeremy Adams, who ran against Williams in the May Primary. Adams endorsed Williams on May 17. On that same day Williams paid Adams $900 for "consulting." Again a month later, on June 15 Williams paid Adams another $900.
Williams reported that he had spent $26,594.99 in the last quarter. That does not reflect total expenditures, which were not fully reported on his most recent report.
Click here to review the latest expenditure report.
Williams' also reported taking in $14,600.93 in the quarter. Again he did not report total receipts. Included in that $14 thousand was a $5000 contribution from himself, making himself his largest contributor. Those reported to have given $1000 during the quarter were: James Russell Boyd of Washington, Lawrence Davenport of Greenville, Jasper Lewis of Greenville, Collice Moore of Greenville, Parker Overton of Greenville and Walter Williams of Greenville.
For the Second Quarter Mattie Lawson's Committee reported receipts of $4995.30 with expenditures of $3172.07. Most of Lawson's receipts came from small contributions. She reported no thousand dollar donors.
Now we know what an endorsement from Jeremy D. Adams costs. Personally I think he was in on it from the start: Part one and part two. Williams had no chance in a two candidate primary. Williams and company are trying to steal it with lots of money and a sleazy plan. Shame on Walter Jones, too.
If any voter reads this and votes for Arthur Williams they deserve what they get. The man is pure sleeze. And jeremy adams is even worse. To buy/sell an endorsement for $1800 shows you how low these political rats will go. People, it is time we put a stop to this crap. Send the sleezeballs a message. Vote against them. Anybody but them.
I have heard so much about Henry Hinton's attack on Mattie I wonder if you could post a recording of the interview. I don't listen to WTIB because they are so chauvinistic but I would like to hear this one. I know Arthur and I know how anti-woman he is. I could never vote for him because I worked with him at HB and know too much about him. It now appears it is coming out against Mattie. Par for the course.
Susan, If you worked at HB then you know this sorry parasite is not anti-woman. If anything he loves women, you can ask any one of the "friends" he "HAD" while at the Beach. I know he loves to man handle his "Friends", I only wish he would try to handle ME just once, (censored) He, walter (Don't have a clue)jones, Ashley(be Gone)woolard, need to stop long enough to smell what they are spreading. He IS-WAS and always will be lower than WHALE S%$#,which is at the bottom of the ocean!!!!!!!!Can we all say Amen!
Hinton's disgusting interview of Mattie was the Talk of the Town in my office today. We want to know how to hear Rush without having to listen to WTIB any more. We have all decided to change our presets and scrap WTIB but I don't want to give up listening to Rush and Hannity. Anybody know how we can do this. BTW somebody needs to tell Henry that whoever gets the most votes in an election wins that election. They may not get the nomination without 40% but Mattie won the first primary. And I want somebody to ask Henry who told him how many TV's Mattie has in her house. But mainly, what DAM* difference that makes. I don't get my new from TV or radio anymore. Henry is a jerk.
Endorsements being bought and sold should be a big story to a real newspaper. Is the WDN asleep at the switch or just operating under its own hidden agenda?
Well, now we know how much the political whores cost for support / endorsements. From an earlier report, we know Walter Jones can be bought for $1,000. Adams strikes a harder bargain at $1,800 but perhaps that was because he had to run a campaign as part of the deal. Woolard and Tarpening as a matched set are $2,500. I wonder how much Woolard will charge Obama to sell his vote as a Presidential Elector if the 3rd District is foolish enough to leave him in that position?
Was Adams a ringer from the beginning? Probably. BTW, did Adams ever even file his campaign reports? I recall that many weeks after they were due, they had not been filed.
I didn’t hear the interview with Mattie because I have stopped listening to Henry Hinton and will never do so again. He is a chauvinistic pig. But I heard how he treated Mattie and I am mad as hell. He’s done this to other women before. None should ever agree to go on his show. I too am a big Rush and Sean fan and was delighted to learn that WRDU carries both of them. I listen to NPR on the drive to work and Tom and Sadie on the way home. Tom’s about as bad but at least he usually knows what he’s talking about. Henry does not. He is an idiot.
If you'll check Arthur's latest financial report you see why Henry pampered Arthur and took the cheap shots at Matte. Arthur paid him $640. It is as simple as that. If you know how Henry operates you know that if you sign a contract with him (or Hank) for enough commercials he will do a friendly interview. That's why he was at the Plantation House. I can't believe Tony Keech played his game. I liked the PH but will not go there any more.
I heard the interview and I and the other three people in our car also felt it was a hatchet job Henry tried to pull on Mattie. She chopped him off at the knees however. Now that we know Arthur paid for ads it is understandable that Henry would carry his water. That's the way the buiness operates.
People who listen to WTIB should realize Henry is a RINO, and I suspect the only reason he tries to be perceived as conservative is that is his audience. He's no more conservative than is John McCain. Mattie knew this and she was obviously prepared for it. Henry, on the otherhand, came across as an amateur who had a dog that ate his homework. His crack about Mattie not winning the first primary was a prime example of trying to fit the facts to drive your agenda. Wonder if TIB reported on any "winners" in the May primary? Henry is a joke. And the joke is on us.
On Thursday, July 5, Henry Hinton interviewed Arthur Williams on 'Talk of the Town.' When Henry asked Arthur about issues he would be dealing with Arthur stumbled and stuttered so Henry named some issues for him and remained helpful throughout the time. At the conclusion of the interaction, Henry indicated that he would interview Mattie Lawson on July 12 and would give her equal time. He did have her on in a telephone interview, before which, he played a very favorable Arthur Williams ad and afterwards a derogatory (mostly untrue) ad about Mattie paid for by Arthur. During the interview the host was accusatory, argumentative and demeaning as he interrupted her often. He abruptly stopped the interview, not giving her equal time.
The radio personality is the same one who, afew months ago, was saying that John Adams wrote the U.S. Constitution. A caller reminded Henry that John Adams was in England at the time and that James Madison, using materials provided by Thomas Jefferson (in France at the time) and input from the convention, provided drafts for the U.S. Constitution. Henry said the caller was wrong.
I realize I should pray for Henry rather than be so angry with him. For my sake I must not turn on 'Talk of the Town' again.
Henry Hinton? Don't get me started! When Henry interviewed Arthur Williams he held his hand and kissed him on the cheek. Every time Arthur started sputtering, "Ugh, ahh, er, uh, rah, uh," Henry stepped in and cued him into something coherent. Without help Williams would not have said ANYTHING coherent! To say Hinton gave a friendly interview is an understatement.
In the Hinton broadcast interview of Mattie Lawson over the phone, hostile Henry attacked all the way. Like the Awful Arthur mailer, Henry assailed her for having too many names, including her maiden name. He argued about where House District 6 is; Lawson was right, Hinton was wrong. He quarreled about the location of Congressional District 3; Lawson was right, Hinton was wrong. He insisted that Corolla was in Dare County. Lawson kindly corrected him; Corolla is in Currituck County. He even criticized her for not watching enough television!
With a lot of determination and focus Lawson got her information out, but she had to work to do it. Heck, Arthur couldn't do it with help!
I realize Hinton is supporting his good ol boy network, but there is something else going on here too, I suspect. Remember when he invited Laura Ingraham to do a live broadcast of her show from Greenville? She agreed to do it, and it was great. Afterward, she stayed, signed autographs and spoke with a veeery long line. Since her great favor, Henry has eagerly quipped his negative Laura remarks on the airwaves many times and switched her show to late night. Seems to me, in the real world, Henry needs Laura way more than Laura needs Henry. I'm not sure he gets that. Do you reckon Henry has a problem with strong, smart women?
How entertaining will it be to see Mattie Lawson standing up for HD6 with that woman bully Thom Tillis trying to dictate to her? I'm betting on Mattie; the Democrats won't have a chance.
Clearly Henry Hinton is shilling for Arthur Williams. And obviously money is behind it. But anyone who knows the players know that he is simply parroting what Bill Tarpenning told him to do. The questions are pure Ashley/Bill jargon. Nobody cares how many times (names) anybody has been married. Consider Ashley Woolard’s current marital status. And Tarpenning is not running the Happy Home either. So what do they do? They try to pull their opponent down to their level. Classic. Hinton was unprepared, as others have said, but the reason he was unprepared was that he just took what Bill told him to use, probably as Bill handed him the check. Simple as that. Hinton did not even know who is in the district, much less what the issues are. He probably does not even know about the Coeur deal. He obviously does not read the Observer. But then he probably does not read anything.
Bad as that twit Henry Hinton may be the real issue is this post is the political payoff from Williams to Adams for his endorsement. That cash payola is a corrupt act, and on another site someone has compared that to Williams' mentor, Jim Black, who went to federal prison for corruption.
Jim Black bought the support of a GOP legislator in his bid to stay Speaker and paid cash in a restaurant rest room. Arthur Williams bought the endorsement of a primary loser for $1,800 and the fool paid by check and put it on his campaign report! I wonder if the prosecutors will have a similar interest in this transaction. I hope so.
This race is very much like the 3rd district State Senate race. There the Raleigh Beltway Bozos of the legislative leadership annointed Randy Ramsey, a Trojan Horse ''Republican'' like Arthur Williams. The party activists wanted Norm Sanderson, a conservative. Ramsey, like Williams, had a Democrat pedigree. In Ramsey's case he was a long time major Democrat contributor to Purdue and Easley and Basnight and just about every major Democrat. He was even one of the providers of illicit airplanes to Purdue's campaign in the Air Purdue scandal. Yet that is who the GOP Beltway Bozos wanted.
Ramsey outspent Sanderson by a margin at least as large as that in the 6th House District, but he could not buy loyalty. Sanderson won by a wide margin.
We need to teach the Beltway Bozos a lesson and defeat Trojan Horse Arthur Williams by at least as large a margin as Ramsey was defeated.
Raphael
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