Fodder has not been a repository for personal attacks except in the case of presidential politics. Hopefully, you can be excused now for breaking that practice. As a North Carolina resident, you can’t willy-nilly go about your business without making a case against an individual who is running an aggressive TV ad campaign to become a U.S Senator. His name is Roy Cooper. He was Governor of N.C. He was Governor because the people elected him — twice. They elected him because, before that, he was Attorney General and before that he was appointed to the Senate and before that he was a N. C. Representative and before that he was an attorney and five years before that he was a student. In short, he is what’s known as a career politician. You can’t know the man through Wikipedia. You can’t know his good deeds. You can’t know his extended family. You can’t know his friends. Through his TV ads, you see the soft, ready smile, the gentle manner, the reassuring nod of the head and the dulcet tone. If you didn’t know better, you would swear he was a Republican — complete with Republican talking points and promise of a better life for everyone. The Roy Cooper you do know, you know only by his actions — beginning in 2020. That was the year one of your best friends died strapped to a ventilator. The likelihood is that nothing could save him but the certainty is nothing was tried. But during that year and the years following, Cooper and his DHHS dictated and mandated that no one in NC could fill a prescription for safe, repurpose drugs to treat Covid. He denied treatment while knowing that highly acclaimed physicians worldwide were using repurpose protocols to save thousands of lives. Meanwhile, between 2020-2023, 30,000 North Carolina people died. During that time, your Governor would not allow NC citizens the freedom to manage their own or their family’s right to life. During that time, his mask and vaccine mandates cost many healthcare workers their jobs. Also during that period, Roy Cooper shut down as many as 70% of small businesses, many never to recover. He shut down churches. He shut down schools, knowing the risk to children was nonexistent. You leave it to anyone to imagine the devastation to life, liberty and property. Yet, Cooper and thousands of other “leaders” now walk away from their decisions — asserting they were only following authorized “emergency” policies and procedures. Anyone who buys the excuses should talk to Governor DeSantis and other leaders who rejected the lies. They were willing to listen to the voices of reason. You tried to reach Cooper, repeatedly. But Cooper listened only to the voice of his Party. No Governor was more conscientious, more devoted — more dutiful, to Biden’s toxic agenda than Cooper. And now, if you listen to his pronouncements, there’s not a word of remorse for his actions. He carries himself with the pride of a public servant who should be admired for his accomplishments. He makes no mention of the Democrat Party’s unabashed embrace of all-out Socialism. To be fair, he can’t. He wants that seat, his next step, because some people have mentioned him as presidential material. Do the math. After six years in the Senate, he will only be 76, ready to take the next step. You force yourself to grit your teeth to listen to Roy Cooper’s slick ads — all of them lessons in pretense — reminiscent of Matthew 7:15-20. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.”

Ed. Note: With respect to Covid, many will cite 20-20 hindsight. In this case, there was vigorous, rational foresight. Those who believed in lies were free to do so, as were those who disbelieved. In the end, however, Governors have no right to nullify the basic human rights granted by the Constitution. This one did.

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