Tony Rand is Chairman of Law Enforcement Associates, and when he got accused of insider trading he told shareholders there’d be an ‘independent’ investigation – then picked his buddy Lyndo Tippett (the former Secretary of Transportation) to lead the investigation. About the same time a lady in Florida was suing Rand’s company, saying it…
Read MoreA year is a long time in politics. One year ago: Barack Obama was a colossus, a superstar who had transformed politics Bev Perdue was about to enjoy a (short) honeymoon The clouds over Mike Easley were just gathering Tony Rand was ready for another turn as second-in-command of the Senate Wake County Democrats were…
Read MoreThe cable-TV blabbermouths are all over the Obama administration over the Christmas Day terrorist scare. The know-it-alls proclaim that this is a PR disaster for the White House. The message machine was asleep. Obama was slow on the uptake. Janet Napolitano blew it. Napolitano did blow it. But I’m not so sure Obama…
Read MoreYou canât really fault the State Democratic Party Chairman for tying himself in knots to praise Governor Perdue â but, then, maybe you can. Or, maybe, we should fault whoever on Bev Perdueâs staff wrote David Youngâs latest email to voters. Chairman Young (or his ghostwriter) begins his lament by telling voters about all…
Read MoreThe state’s received a whopping $7.5 billion in ‘Stimulus Funds’ and a good part of it was to pay for Medicaid but, despite President Obama’s help, Secretary Lanier Cansler’s got a train wreck on his hands after he gave out $250 million in no bid contracts, a lot of them to his cronies and former…
Read MoreGovernor Perdue’s Parole Commissioner Tony Rand’s got plenty of troubles: He’s being investigated by the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission (and, maybe worst of all for a politician, an investigative reporter from the News and Observer) for what looks like a scheme he cooked up to have the state buy police equipment from…
Read MoreThereâs been a lot of back and forth about new polls in the Senate Race. For instance, The Civitas Institute poll has Senator Richard Burr up: · Richard Burr 40% · Elaine Marshall 32% · Undecided 28% Some folks are saying this is good news for Burr but it looks to me like the news…
Read MoreI keep thinking sooner or later it will turn out there’s nothing to one of these scandals involving Mike Easley – but he’s back in hot water. According to the News and Observer here’s the prelude to Easley getting a $137,000 discount on a beach front lot: Easley’s aide Ruffin Poole 1) calls a…
Read MoreI keep thinking sooner or later it will turn out there’s nothing to one of these scandals involving Mike Easley – but he’s back in hot water. According to the News and Observer here’s the prelude to Easley getting a $137,000 discount on a beach front lot: Easley’s aide Ruffin Poole 1) calls a…
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