Posts by Carter Wrenn
Mea Culpa
This will come as no surprise to my wife, children or friends but I have made a mistake – the other day I wrote a blog and said State Representative David Lewis voted for Richard Morgan and Jim Black on the final vote for Speaker in 2003. That was dead on 100% wrong. Representative Lewis…
Read MoreThe Traits of Anony-mices
A while back two meandering tribes of ‘anony-mices’ – as Ms. Joan Troy once called them – set up camp over on the Talking About Politics Forum and, for the past year, these diminutive creatures have made war on one another and just about anyone else they lay eyes on – which brings us to…
Read MoreMoney Flowing Flowing in Circles
Governor Perdue’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler has out done himself. Here in North Carolina we’ve got a State Ethics Commission, a House Ethics Committee, a Senate Ethics Committees, dozens of watch-dog groups and a free press all ferreting out chicanery by the politicians in state government – and all of…
Read More‘The Voice of Onslow County’
As far as political shenanigans go this isn’t in the league with John Edwards’ goings on but it’s pretty strange. Down in Onslow County, after twenty-four years in the State House my old friend Robert Grady decided not to seek re-election and to run for Clerk of Court instead. Now what you have to…
Read MoreRascal on the Loose
Sometimes you come across a rascal who’s got so much brazenness and old-fashioned nerve you just can’t help but admire his audacity – throw him in a briar patch and he’ll land on his feet and end up owning the place. That’s why it’s hard not to keep an eye peeled to see what…
Read MoreFollow the Money
While Secretary Lanier Cansler’s former firm has been lobbying his department, it’s also been making payments to Cansler, personally. Another Democratic scandal? Back when Governor Perdue appointed Lanier Cansler to lead North Carolina’s biggest state agency, he announced had severed all ties with his former lobbying firm – they had parted company and…
Read MoreA New Day in the Senate?
Up in Washington last weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference every time Scott Brown’s name was mentioned the conservative hordes let out a bellow of approval – but, then, two days later Brown voted with the Democrats in the Senate to end a filibuster against President Obama’s latest ‘Stimulus Bill’ and Democratic leader Harry…
Read MoreA Pretty Bad Mistake
Sometimes a story floats in over the transom that’s just too incredible to pass up; – this one came at the expense of Bank of America, which certainly doesn’t need any more headaches after being sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for fraud, plus a whooping $16 billion. Charlie Cordosa, who used…
Read MoreGovernment Perdue Style
Last summer, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler, told the legislature there were fifteen thousand senior citizens cheating Medicaid by getting Home Care even though they were healthy. So the legislators told Cansler, Alright. Hire doctors, examine the patients, and get the ones who aren’t sick off Medicaid. …
Read MoreTerry Sanford…Reincarnated?
It’s frightening how Cal Cunningham, the Democrat’s new boy-wonder, has begun to remind me of John Edwards. Just look at Cunningham’s picture in Wikipedia. It’s eerie. The same impish grin. The same hair. And Cunningham, like Edwards, is a candidate straight out of central casting: He steps onto the stage, opens a script and starts…
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