Posted on 10/21/2014 5:34:22 PM PDT by tcrlaf
Democratic Senate candidate Kay Hagan skipped tonight's debate in North Carolina
"Facing new reports of corruption and insider deals, Kay Hagan skipped tonights North Carolina Senate debate, leaving an empty chair to represent her campaign. After the last debate, America Rising trackers caught Hagan skipping the post-debate press conference because of her inability to answer questions about missing Armed Services hearings on ISIS," claims America Rising.
"This is not an image or video that conveys strength or confidence from Kay Hagans campaign 2 weeks out from Election Day."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
She is done.
In an ideal world, we'd have a Reaganesque Republican President and a Republican House and a Republican Senate, lead by true Conservatives. One can only dream, right? All things being equal, I'd take wins in Michigan and Kentucky, so long as there was an uprising to remove McConnell as Majority Leader.
She’s skipped it to avoid the huge emerging scandal......She has done worse than McDonnell ever did in VA, she needs to be indicted.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/daily_journal/display.html?id=11481
From a report filed early Saturday by WRAL-TV news, we have confirmation that a cluster of businesses owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagans husband and other family members collected even more subsidies from taxpayers than initially reported. While Carolina Journals Don Carrington has highlighted a stimulus grant totaling $250,644 that was paid to JDC Manufacturing, a real estate business co-owned by Hagans husband, Chip, and his brothers John and David, WRAL confirmed that JDC received an additional $137,000 in energy tax credits from the project. (Some of the relevant documents are here.)
(Politico.com noted the tax credits in its initial report on the story, but those credits arent listed in the public documents CJ has reviewed. WRAL said it had seen various internal company documents and proprietary records, perhaps including verification of the tax credits.)
Add a second federal renewable energy grant of $50,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to the ledger, and we learn that Hagan businesses soaked taxpayers for nearly $450,000 to pay for energy upgrades installed at JDCs 300,000-square-foot building in Reidsville.
Its worse than we thought.
Its important to put the story into perspective, because the Hagan camp relentlessly deflects and spins, portraying these taxpayer handouts passed around from one family-owned company to another as nothing improper. And this is the most laughable contention that the Hagan family somehow received no benefit from nearly a half-million bucks in taxpayer largess.
Please.
JDC, a company co-owned by the three Hagan brothers, applied for and received $250,644 in stimulus dollars to install more efficient lighting and furnaces and place solar panels at its building. JDC leases the building to Plastic Revolutions, a recycling company also owned by Hagan family members. Once the project was completed, Plastic Revolutions said it expected to save $100,000 in energy costs annually. Thats a benefit it would not have received without the upgrades, which were made possible by federal taxpayers.
Moreover, JDC wound up with a more valuable asset: a modern, energy-efficient manufacturing facility that would bring a higher price if it sold, and a more inviting location for potential new tenants. And, of course, JDC received $137,000 in tax credits again resulting from the stimulus grant.
The Hagan family could have financed the project by investing its own money, seeking outside investors, going into debt, or draining its own bank accounts. While some of those other sources might have played a role in this project, the Hagans also went, hat in hand, to the government, and we paid for it.
Would JDC have pursued the project without the handouts? The Hagans havent said so, at least not to us. But it matters little now. Our money has been spent.
Another point of contention revolves around the role of Kay and Chips son, Tilden, in yet a third (or is it a fourth?) Hagan family company Solardyne/Green State Power. Solardyne, a solar installation company, filed its incorporation papers with state government the same week JDC applied for the stimulus grant. (Chip changed the name of the company to Green State Power in 2012. Maybe the Hagans thought the name Solardyne would remind potential clients of Solyndra. Who knows?)
Team Hagan claims that Tilden had minimal involvement in the project. Maybe Chip forgot to tell his business partner: Tilden. The Green State Power website features the Plastic Revolutions project, saying the smooth installation and quick production of power prompted them to install an additional 58kW [solar] array in a similar location. The additional array may have been paid for with the USDA grant. Were still checking on that.
Moreover, in November and December 2010, Tilden filed invoices as an hourly laborer for Circuitmakers Inc., a subcontractor that worked on the installation.
About the same time, Tilden also was behaving very much like a project manager. He ordered nearly $160,000 of equipment for the project from a vendor in Vermont, using his Chapel Hill home as the billing address for Solardyne (Documents, pages 4 and 6). On Nov. 18, 2010, he was invoiced for more than $135,000. On Dec. 7, 2010, he was invoiced for nearly $23,000. Both invoices indicated the equipment was for the JDC project, and listed the recipient as John Hagan, Solardyne, at the JDC facility in Reidsville.
Finally, there are some parts of the story that didnt add up, based on the public records that were made available to us. As you can see in Amendment 2 (on document pages 1 and 2), the budget revision to the grant, in December 2010, JDC reduced its budget for the project from $438,627 to $324,108 a savings of $114,519. JDC did not reduce any of the stimulus funding it had requested, and it wasnt required to do so.
The revised budget was approved on two dates Jan. 20, 2011, and Aug. 31, 2011. A separate letter dated May 2, listing grantee representatives John Hagan and Tilden Hagan, said the project was complete (see page 6). JDC got all $250,644.
JDC now claims the project wound up costing more, and provided internal documents to WRAL and The News & Observer that allegedly add up to more than $500,000. The company didnt give us those documents, and its not clear if they were in the state files that were available to us. Were still asking about that, and will follow up as we learn more.
And, dont forget, were still asking to review the file for the USDA grant.
But heres where we stand: Companies owned by family members of Kay Hagan got more than $400,000 in taxpayer funding to finance upgrades at facilities and for businesses they own not just the $300,000 in stimulus and USDA grants we initially found. The grants used tax dollars to offset the costs of improvements in the physical plant, and provide tax breaks for one of the companies, and reduce the energy bills of another. Kay Hagans husband and son created a solar company and allowed it to handle some of the work. And were still digging for additional documentation.
Team Hagan has chosen to hire Marc Elias, a high-powered political lawyer and Caitlin Legacki, a crisis-management specialist and former Hagan press secretary, to argue otherwise.
And ask yourself: How can you not benefit from free money?
While I agree whole heartedly, it apparently doesn’t matter.
She votes with zero 96% of the time...has the gall to label herself as a “moderate” and folks don’t seem to care.
She should be losing by 5 but she is up 3??? makes no sense.
With Tillis close with 2 weeks to go he should be showing that empty chair and hitting her with humorous biting ads every hour...and tieing her to zero at every opportunity.
Similar to Shaheen in NH...zero voter 99% of the time...still up..over Scott Brown. he might be viewed as a “carpet bagger” since he just moved to NH.
I need NC to be Republican...don’t care whether the party needs us...
Hagan delenda est...
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pre,month of May, primary polling by established pollsters showed Brannon to be a certain winner against Hagan...maybe not by double digits but, pretty much, a sure winner....but no, the GOPe had to have Tillis..Brannon would have won the seat, even with the fraud factor taking place..
This cannot look good for Hagan. What’s her stated reason (probably a lie, but still)?
Normally you only cancel a debate when you have a commanding lead, if you do it because of your own scandals it is a sign of a sure loser
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