It’s a Little Late, Pat
September 6, 2013 - by
Every day I say: Today I won’t pick on Governor McCrory. Then he does something so boneheaded I can’t resist.
Like his parting shots at the legislature. He looked like the 98-pound weakling sticking out his tongue long after the bully who kicked sand in his face walked down the beach.
The legislature made quick work this week of his two vetoes. Then the Governor said that, notwithstanding his oath of office, he wouldn’t carry out one law and would work around the other. And he came up with a “solution” to the teachers masters’ degree debacle that even his own Board of Education chairman said won’t work and that his communications director and education adviser couldn’t explain
Senate leaders shot back. “It seems a little instrument called the state constitution is being ignored,” said Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger said, “All governors, without regard to party, swear an oath to uphold the constitution. We expect Gov. McCrory to perform his constitutional duty to enforce the law.”
When McCrory called the drug-testing bill an “unfunded mandate,” Apodaca had this memorable line: “Well, I guess you could cut a few salaries and find the money to put into this program.”
Point, set and match, Apodaca.
(Apodaca gives me an excuse to mention again – for only the second time this week – that McCrory is paying 24-year-old ex-campaign aides $85,000 and $87,000 a year, but not giving teachers and state employees a raise.)
In fairness, given the news today that an adviser to state Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos has been paid more than $228,000 for eight months of work, the two young aides should demand raises.
Here’s some free advice to the Governor: You could have spoken out during the session on the bills you complain about now. You could have put money for teachers with masters’ degree in your budget. You could have vetoed the budget if it was so bad.
You could have been a leader and not a 98-pound weakling who gets bullied.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans
It’s a Little Late, Pat
September 6, 2013/
Every day I say: Today I won’t pick on Governor McCrory. Then he does something so boneheaded I can’t resist.
Like his parting shots at the legislature. He looked like the 98-pound weakling sticking out his tongue long after the bully who kicked sand in his face walked down the beach.
The legislature made quick work this week of his two vetoes. Then the Governor said that, notwithstanding his oath of office, he wouldn’t carry out one law and would work around the other. And he came up with a “solution” to the teachers masters’ degree debacle that even his own Board of Education chairman said won’t work and that his communications director and education adviser couldn’t explain
Senate leaders shot back. “It seems a little instrument called the state constitution is being ignored,” said Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson. Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger said, “All governors, without regard to party, swear an oath to uphold the constitution. We expect Gov. McCrory to perform his constitutional duty to enforce the law.”
When McCrory called the drug-testing bill an “unfunded mandate,” Apodaca had this memorable line: “Well, I guess you could cut a few salaries and find the money to put into this program.”
Point, set and match, Apodaca.
(Apodaca gives me an excuse to mention again – for only the second time this week – that McCrory is paying 24-year-old ex-campaign aides $85,000 and $87,000 a year, but not giving teachers and state employees a raise.)
In fairness, given the news today that an adviser to state Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos has been paid more than $228,000 for eight months of work, the two young aides should demand raises.
Here’s some free advice to the Governor: You could have spoken out during the session on the bills you complain about now. You could have put money for teachers with masters’ degree in your budget. You could have vetoed the budget if it was so bad.
You could have been a leader and not a 98-pound weakling who gets bullied.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans