North Carolina – Democrats
Blame the Editor
Here’s a caricature of how government works North Carolina style: The Chairman of the Wildlife Commission, who naturally got his job by giving money to Governor Perdue, orders the Commission’s CEO to write a nice article about the Governor and publish it in the next edition of their magazine and mail it out to hunters…
Read MoreShameless Self-Promotion
Rick Martinez, news director with WPTF radio (680AM), taped an interview with me this week about my biography of Governor Jim Hunt. It airs on Carolina Newsmaker Sunday at 7 am (which he said is one of their highest-rated shows. Go figure). I confess I had some reservations before the interview. I had never…
Read More‘Throw ’em Out’
An astute observer poses this question about Elaine Marshall’s new ad: “How do Democrats like David Price and Bob Etheridge feel about her saying it’s time to throw out the Washington politicians?” Well, for Democrats this year, it’s obviously every man – and woman – for themselves. Marshall’s ad is simple and inexpensive,…
Read MoreHow Government Really Works: A Train Wreck III
After Lanier Cansler figured out how to end run the Medicaid appeals process (so he could cut patients’ home care pretty much however he wanted) he was ready to take the next step. He’d already given CCME Corporation (his former client from his lobbying days) a $25 million no bid contract, so all he…
Read MoreHow Government Really Works: A Train Wreck II
After Secretary Lanier Cansler gave a 25$ million no bid contract (to his former client CCME Corporation) and promised legislators that meant he’d be able to cut in-home care to Medicaid patients $50 million (because, he said, 45% of the patients were cheats) he ran into a problem. When he ran all the patients’ records through…
Read MoreHow Government Really Works: A Train Wreck
A few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them. Next Cansler’s Department decided…
Read MorePerdue Pushback on PPP Poll
Pearse Edwards in Governor Perdue’s office has pushed back hard against Public Policy Polling’s conclusion that she is a “liability” to Democrats this year because of her “failure to communicate with average voters” In comments posted on PPP’s blog, Edwards called that analysis “not only unfair but wrong.” He added: “Gov. Perdue’s net…
Read MoreHow Government Works
A couple of months ago an 80 year old man on Medicaid received a letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services Lanier Cansler’s department telling him his in-home medical care had been cut. He appealed the ruling, proved he needed the care, and won. But he still didn’t get it. What happened? …
Read MoreThe New Bev?
That was a flash of steel Governor Perdue showed, firing Kenneth Lay. And there may be more to come. John Hood of the John Locke Foundation said at the John Locke Luncheon Wednesday that a Republican legislature could be the best thing to happen to the Governor. She would no longer have to…
Read MoreTea Party Skunk
I thought it was my job to be the skunk at the garden party: yesterday’s John Locke Foundation “Headliners Luncheon.” Then Mr. Herbert Hoover Rosser (yes, his real name) stood up. I was the token Democrat on the panel. The other panelists and audience members were savoring the prospect of big Republican wins come…
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