North Carolina – Democrats
Follow the Money
That old Watergate adage may dictate the 2010 elections. Democrats – both in Raleigh and Washington – may follow the money straight to big-time mid-term defeats. Sometimes at the beach, two waves merge together to make a big wave that about drowns you. That may happen next year. Nationally, the NBC/Wall Street…
Read MoreBerger’s Blooper – Chapter III
Senator Doug Berger’s blooper is going on television. When Senator Berger passed a bill to cut the home care of 20,000 elderly Medicaid patients, he said he had a study that proved they weren’t eligible for care. Period. Well, it turns out, over a month ago the Department of Health and Human Resources told Senator…
Read MoreLet The Chips Fall Where They May
Mrs. Easley’s lost her scholastic robes and left the stage at NCSU to a communal sigh of relief;—but there’s an important question left unanswered: Who pulled the strings to get her the job? After all, when someone robs a bank, gets caught and gives back part of the money they don’t get a medal…
Read MoreBerger’s Blooper – Chapter II
Some people never seem to learn and Democratic Senator Doug Berger is looking like a case in point. State Senator Berger, who back in his student days at Chapel Hill signed up for something called the ‘Democratic Socialists of America,’ is now head of the Senate Sub-Committee on Health Care. The other day, after…
Read MoreWhack the Lawyers
Richard Vinroot is right: How can the legislature tax the services of mechanics and hairdressers, but not lawyers? Of course, lawyers write the tax legislation. But Democrats are getting themselves into enough political trouble without being elitist, too. Governor Perdue is on her “Save the Schools – and My Poll Ratings” tour. Democrats in the…
Read MoreA Crazy Kind of Logic
Over in the legislature, the Democrats took out an axe and cut just about every program in sight from education to health care – and each Democratic legislator voted for it. Then once the Democrats had made half the state mad they turned around and supported a billion dollar tax increase – and made…
Read MoreGary The Profit
It’s hard to imagine a better week – at least in North Carolina – for Republicans. The grand jury’s investigating Governor Easley about the Southport Marina. And Professor Mrs. Easley’s job at NCSU. And Easley’s real estate deal at the beach. And Easley’s free travel. And free vacations. Easley Contributors are testifying, Chancellors are testifying,…
Read MoreBack to School for Bev
Governor Perdue must have decided that the only way to arrest her flagging poll numbers is to plant the flag for education. And for $1.5 billion in higher taxes. Laura Leslie at WUNC radio said Perdue is “fighting back” against legislative cuts with a “Jim Hunt-esque tour to pressure legislators to protect school funding.”…
Read MoreBleeding Red
The Wolfpack Nation is angry. Angry at the Big Men On Campus who embarrassed N.C. State, angry at The News & Observer and angry at Mike and Mary Easley. Here is an up-to-the-minute guide to the venting: Jim Oblinger and Larry Neilsen. They proved, once again, that the coverup is always worse than…
Read MoreThe Sparks Fly Upwards
Well, the next time a governor asks the Chancellor at North Carolina State University to hire his wife for $875,000 the Chancellor will either whip out a gun and start shooting or hightail it for the hills. Nobody with any sense really believed the professors at State College thought up hiring Governor Easley’s wife…
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