Posted on 10/29/2004 3:38:14 PM PDT by Prospero
Beloved conservative icon and former Senator Jesse Helms will be coming to Kinston, Saturday, to stump for Patrick Ballantine and Richard Burr.
Jesse Helms will be at Kings Restaurant in Kinston from 11 until Noon, Saturday, on Highway 70.
Here is the Ballantine eastern barnstorm schedule:
7:00 - 7:30 pm Currituck High School Football game Barco, NC
Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004
8:30 - 9:30 am Wayne County Breakfast Madison's Restaurant 413 New Hope Road Goldsboro, NC
9:15 - 10:00 am Wayne County "Feast in the East" Goldsboro Fairgrounds (off 117)
11:00 - 12:00 pm Lenoir County Rally and Brunch Special Guest: Senator Jesse Helms Kings Restaurant Hwy 70 Kinston, NC
1:00 - 2:00 pm Craven County Lunch Golden Corral Restaurant (off Hwy 17 exit) New Bern, NC
2:30 - 3:00 pm Jones County The Big Game Hunt Pollocksville, NC
4:00 - 4:45 pm Carteret County Meet and Greet Ed's Gun Shop Newport, NC
6:00- 8:00 pm Onslow County Fundraiser and Rally Swansboro Rotary Club and Civic Center 1104 Main Street - Hwy 24 Swansboro, NC
Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004
1:00 - 2:30 pm Pitt County BBQ Rock Springs Equestrian Center, Hwy 43N Greenville
I thought Jesse Helms was dead! How old is he these days and can he still function?
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Helms was born in October 1921 in Monroe, NC. He retired from the Senate in January 2003, succeeded by Elizabeth Dole. The one who that you are probably thinking about was Strom Thurmond of SC, who died at 100 in the summer of 2003.
Jesse Helms needs to remind the famed Jessecrats of East Carolina of why they voted for him in the first place.
Gay Rights activists are converging on Kinston, in eastern North Carolina, late Saturday morningto confront former Senator Jesse Helms about a recent report appearing in Gay City News.
http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_344/newsbriefs.html
Helms, 81, is making the second of only two public appearances before election day at a rally for North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Patrick Ballantine.
The Gay Rights activists reportedly intend to confront Senator Helms at King Restaurant on the Highway 70 By-Pass, in Kinston, where Helms is scheduled to appear at the rally between 11 and NOON, late Saturday morning.
Do you know how Mr. Ballantine is after the election? I hope he plans to continue his involvement in some form of conservative activism.
He called, waking me from a stupor, early Wednesday morning, and we talked.
Losing is hard, of course, and not without some feelings of shame when the GOP did so well Tuesday everywhere but on the state level here in North Carolina.
He didn't even carry his home county, that he carried as a Senate district in 2002 by 67 percent.
But, knowing PJB, I reminded him of the million and a half good friends he had made, that he himself had done well and that it was good to feel the sand between your toes for a while.
A tirade of nonsense about Patrick has been circulated from both sides since the Primary. Perhaps a lot of folks just couldn;t believe what some of us know all too well. What you saw was what you got.
GW lost his first run, and Patrick will be back. Count on it, even though, at the moment he is not so sure. I am.
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