NC 9th Congrtessional District

Jim Pendergraph former sheriff of Mecklenburg County and current County Commissioner who is running for the 9th Congrestional District seat now held by Sue Myrick says he is suspicious of President Obama's birthplace

“I have reason to be suspicious,” he said. “But I don’t know. I haven’t seen the facts. I think there’s a lot of smoke and generally when there’s smoke there’s got to be fire somewhere.”

Hasn't seen the facts? Puhleeze! When your own party chair declares:

Even Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus last year declared the issue a distraction and said, “the president was born in the United States.”

you have to figure the facts are out there.

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It must be nice to be so rich:

“Any pension received from the state is given to charity,” Pittenger said in an email. “As you know I have stated that I will not take a federal pension and will donate my Congressional salary.” In a disclosure statement filed with Congress, he lists assets of between $25 million and $50 million in the Robert Pittenger Co., and a 2011 salary from the real estate investment company of between $1 million and $5 million.

And before you say it, I know there isn't a snowball's chance in hell of a Dem taking this seat. But I'd rather have a retired Sheriff in there than a land baron: