My wife and I took a three-hour drive this past Thursday night from Charlotte to Fayetteville to attend a “Machine Gun Social”. Tim D’Annunzio, one of the republican candidates seeking to challenge Rep. Larry Kissell as North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District Representative, sponsored the event. It was an easy, leisurely drive. We some great barbeque with all the expected trimmings, and fired off a couple of magazines on full automatic. We really had a great time. After everyone had a chance to express their support of our 2nd Amendment rights, Mr. D’Annunzio took questions for about a half an hour.
This is the second event sponsored by Mr. D’Annunzio that I have attended. The first was a town hall type meeting in Charlotte, where Tim introduced himself, and then conducted a question & answer session that lasted over an hour and a half. At both events, there were about 100 or so persons in attendance, and the questions ranged from regional concerns to those of National implications.
I should mention that as an unaffiliated voter in North Carolina, I have no particular interest in the outcome of the Republican primary. My position has always been that it is likely impossible to find a candidate for office that I will agree with one hundred percent on every stated position. However as a constitutional purist, I can say with certainty that Mr. D’Annunzio’s interpretations and views closely reflect my own.
We both agree that the federal government has exceeded its Constitutional authority many times over the past 80 to 90 years and needs to be reigned in. As you may know, the re-establishment of the limits and boundaries of government, as defined in our founding documents, is the first mission and purpose of the Conservative Party movement. We also agree on the people’s right to establish term limits on their Congressional representation every two or six years, and that if the people from another State or District want to elect the same man (or woman) over and over; it is of no concern to us.
We do not agree on the continual need for the rehabilitation of the Republican Party.
I prefer to stand apart, but I can live with that difference in this one case.
David Schott
Charlotte, NC
