The race to fill Senator Jean Preston’s seat in the NC Legislature is heating up. A few weeks ago Rep. Norm Sanderson announced his intention of running for Senator Preston’s seat. Saturday, Ken Jones, Pine Knoll Shores mayor announced he would throw his hat in the ring. For weeks it has been rumored that Randy Ramsey, owner of Jarrett Bay Boat Works would also declare his candidacy for Senator Preston’s seat.
Rep. Sanderson is a staunch conservative. Ken Jones from all reports is also a solid conservative. But even though Mr. Ramsey is registered Republican, his politics is largely unknown, until you look at his political contribution and political associations as far back as 1997. If you to follow this link to www.followthemoney.org a site that tracks money in state politics. It shows that since 1997, Randall Ramsey has given $36,950 to Democratic candidates in NC. They include, Mike Easley, Bev Perdue, Mark Basnight and the NC Democratic Party. During that same period of time he gave $2750 to Republicans.
Randy Ramsey is the owner of Jarrett Bay Boat Works and his company airplane was included in the first round of “unreported flights” for Governor Bev Perdue that became known as Travelgate”. (Ref. http://www.civitasreview.com/elections-campaigns/travelgate-perdue/)
This followed a pattern dating back to the Easley administration of political donors providing free air travel and political contributions in return for political favors or political appointments. In Ramsey’s case, the political appointment was to the NC State University Board of Trustees.
Randy Ramsey has been a major player in liberal Democratic “pay to play” politics and is not representative of the conservative values of the Tea Party, or what we expect of the Republican Party. I encourage you to do your own research and then if you come to the same conclusion, pass this information on to your friends to warn them that a major Democratic political player is running in the Republican primary for NC Senate.
We do not want a Democrat pretending to be a Republican run for the Senate seat currently occupied by such a fine Senator as Jean Preston. This is no way to honor Jean’s service by electing a RINO Democrat hack to her seat.
Democrat Contributions Republican Contributions
$2000 Mike Easley Gov 12/18/97 $500 David Hipps Senate 1/20/00
$500 Bev Perdue Senate 7/15/98 $500 Jonathan Robinson House 9/28/00
$1000 Mike Easley Gov 3/31/99 $500 David Hipps Senate 11/5/00
$500 Mike Easley Gov 6/24/99 $1000 Cherie Berry Labor Com 12/10/03
$1000 Bev Perdue Lt. Gov 6/25/99 $250 Cherie Berry Labor Com 10/16/07
$1000 Scott Thomas Senate 6/29/00
$2000 Bev Perdue Lt. Gov 9/22/00
$2500 Mike Easley Gov 10/3/00
$200 Scott Thomas Senate 8/26/02
$250 Scott Thomas Senate 10/01/04
$2000 Mike Easley Gov 10/16/04
$1000 Bev Perdue Lt. Gov 10/20/04
$2000 Bev Perdue Lt. Gov 12/27/05
$2000 Bev Perdue Lt. Gov 6/29/06
$2000 Bev Perdue Gov 12/27/07
$4000 Bev Perdue Gov 10/3/08
$1000 Marc Basnight Senate 10/17/08
$5000 NC Democratic Party 10/17/08
$2500 NC Democratic Party 4/28/10
$1000 Marc Basnight Senate 7/2/10
$1500 Michael Walters Senate 9/16/10
$2000 Bev Perdue Gov 7/25/11
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$36,950 $2750