North Carolina – Democrats

When Ruffin Poole was twenty-five years old and fresh out of law school he went to work for Mike Easley; he’s thirty-seven now and indicted for 51 counts of everything from extortion to racketeering and could go to prison for 85 years.   What went wrong – for a small town boy from Kinston? For…

I don’t know Ruffin Poole well, but he never struck me as a fellow who posed a physical danger to the populace.   So why did the feds force him to make a well-photographed “perp walk” in cuffs?   I put that question to a Democratic lawyer friend of mine who has done considerable work…

“The jobs governor.”   “Setting government straight.”   “Career and college – ready, set, go.”   “Safe communities.”   You may as well get familiar with all these phrases. You’ll be hearing them from Governor Perdue – presumably for a good while.   Team Perdue has carved out those words as her roadmap to political…

Coming out of a meeting over in the state legislature Senate Kingpin Marc Basnight ran head on into a gaggle of reporters and right off someone asked if it wasn’t a bit underhanded for Basnight to appropriate $25 million for a new fishing pier at Nags Head and then have his own construction company build…

I’d give the front page of today’s N&O to any young person who aspires to go into politics.   Ruffin Poole, the “little Governor,” gets indicted on 51 counts of corruption.   Poole was Mike Easley’s “go-to guy.” Now he’s the guy the feds go to to get Easley.   John Edwards confesses, says he’s…

By now, North Carolinians can be forgiven for denying paternity of everybody involved in the John Edwards affair.   Edwards surprised no one by finally admitting he’s the father. At least he beat ex-gofer Andrew Young’s book to the punch.   Edwards had the good sense to fess up in a written statement – and…