Channeling Jim Gardner

March 15, 2011 - byGary Pearce
Speaker Thom Tillis’ quote rang familiar:
 
 “You are looking at people who are members of a party that will lead this state for a decade, if not a generation. I’m not sure the Democrats can ever take it back,” he told the Nash County Republican Convention last week, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.
 
Sure enough, I found this quote on page 235 in Rob Christensen’s book, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics:
 
“At a fundraiser in a restored, white-columned mansion in Nash County in March 1988, Jim Gardner, the former hamburger tycoon and two-time gubernatorial candidate, stood on an oak staircase and laid out his dreams of a Republican era – a generation of GOP control of the executive branch that would change the state’s political culture.”
 
Gardner’s generation of GOP control lasted four years.
 
Tillis may turn out to be right. But politics has a way of defying prediction.
 
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Channeling Jim Gardner

March 15, 2011/Gary Pearce
Speaker Thom Tillis’ quote rang familiar:
 
 “You are looking at people who are members of a party that will lead this state for a decade, if not a generation. I’m not sure the Democrats can ever take it back,” he told the Nash County Republican Convention last week, according to the Rocky Mount Telegram.
 
Sure enough, I found this quote on page 235 in Rob Christensen’s book, The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics:
 
“At a fundraiser in a restored, white-columned mansion in Nash County in March 1988, Jim Gardner, the former hamburger tycoon and two-time gubernatorial candidate, stood on an oak staircase and laid out his dreams of a Republican era – a generation of GOP control of the executive branch that would change the state’s political culture.”
 
Gardner’s generation of GOP control lasted four years.
 
Tillis may turn out to be right. But politics has a way of defying prediction.
 
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