NORTH CAROLINA, WAKE THE HELL UP!! Roy Cooper. Josh Stein. Rachel Hunt. Jeff Jackson. These are the names responsible for the North Carolina we are living in right now. I work on N Elm Street in downtown Greensboro. Every night I walk to my car looking over my shoulder. I take a deep breath before I even leave the building. That is not normal.! That is not acceptable! And it is the direct result of the people we keep putting in charge. They put a curfew on this city because they knew it was not safe. It still is not safe. The same leadership that watched South Elm Street get smashed and looted in 2020 is the same leadership still failing to protect the people who work here every day. Roy Cooper has spent nearly forty years in politics. House. Senate. Attorney General. Governor. Four decades of power. And this is what he delivered: He marched with the rioters while our cities burned. Downtown Greensboro’s Elm Street, the street I work on was destroyed. Windows shattered. Businesses looted. Merchandise stolen. Debris and fires in the streets. Cooper fled the mansion, then came out, fist in the air, marching with the crowd for the cameras while police risked their lives. He locked down churches, schools, and small businesses while keeping liquor stores open. Your church was restricted. Your kids’ schools were closed. Your local shops were crushed. But you could still buy liquor. Priorities were clear. He released more than 4,200 criminals early. Over half reoffended. Hundreds committed new serious felonies, including rape and murder. That is not justice!!!!! That is a policy that put innocent North Carolinians in danger, including the people walking the same streets I walk after dark. And he made your electricity bill climb. While working families struggled, Cooper pushed aggressive carbon mandates that locked in higher energy costs. Rates rose year after year under his watch. You paid more to keep the lights on while he collected titles and power. Now this same career politician wants a promotion to the United States Senate. Putting Roy Cooper in the Senate is not a promotion for North Carolina. It is a reward for failure. It is a decision to send the same soft-on-crime instincts, the same selective lockdowns, the same expensive energy policies, and the same indifference to public safety to Washington for the next six years. If you feel unsafe walking to your car… If your power bill keeps rising… If you are tired of watching career politicians fail upward… This is the election that decides whether it gets worse. We do not need another forty-year politician with a record of burned streets, early-release criminals, locked-down churches, and higher bills. We need someone who will actually fight for the people who live here. Michael Whatley. North Carolina, this is your wake-up call!!