North Carolina – Democrats

For Democrats, this is supposed to be our can’t-lose year – in North Carolina and nationally. But the bad news keeps piling up in Raleigh. You can just see the Republican ads this fall. First there was the mental-health debacle. Now it’s the probation system’s inability to keep up with dangerous criminals. We have the…

When we last visited The Case of the Missing Emails it was a tangled web. It all started when The News and Observer reported the Department of Health had wasted $400 million – it was supposed to spend to provide health care to the mentally ill. Next, the Department of Health’s spokeswoman told The News…

Governor Easley doesn’t need – and can’t win – this fight with The News & Observer over whether PIOs were told to delete emails. The paper all but called the Governor’s lawyer a liar – on the front page and in a news story, not an editorial. The PIOs’ notes seem clear: “Public records request…

There’s a good old-fashioned brou-ha-ha going on in the Democratic Governor’s primary. Beverly Perdue says – in her latest TV ad – Richard Moore’s Wall Street’s boy. That as Treasurer, he increased fees to Wall Street Money managers 600% — and the Wall Street tycoons paid him back with $1.5 million in campaign donations. Moore,…

The Young Democrats haven’t been this hot in North Carolina for 30 years. Long ago, being in the YDs was a logical step into politics. Both Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt were state YD presidents – and used the office as stepping stones. But, with the decline of grassroots politics, the importance of the YDs…

We warn our kids to beware of who their online chat friends really are. Maybe the same caveat should apply to politics. Ryan Teague Beckwith writes in the N&O today about North Carolina’s first online debate – between Bev Perdue and Richard Moore. It’s sponsored by the BlueNC blog. Question: How do we know it’s…

You know a campaign is getting rough when the consultants start attacking each other. As part of its effort to stop the NEA ads for Bev Perdue, the Moore campaign sent out emails with N&O clips linking the NEA to disgraced lottery-lobbyist Kevin Geddings and to Perdue adviser Mac McCorkle. The NEA helped pay for…