Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Governor McCrory has to hope that Aldona Wos and the high-paid operatives around her pull off a miracle at DHHS. Because he clearly can’t fire her. Wos is the most powerful person in Raleigh today. Back in January, it looked like Budget Czar Art Pope was. Then, during the legislature, it was Senator Phil…
Read MoreI’m always looking for something nice to say about a Republican. But Dan Forest? Sorry, I’ve got to do it. Monday, I posted a blog (Let Teachers Teach) saying we should pay teachers $100,000 a year. Then, on Wednesday, Lieutenant Governor Forest called for North Carolina to pay the nation’s highest teaching salaries. Asked…
Read MoreNo matter how many hours she works each day or how hard she tries Aldona Wos can’t seem to catch a break. Almost as soon as she took her job (as Secretary of Health and Human Services) she got flattened by two budget overruns. Then she got run over by two more multi-million dollar…
Read MoreGovernor McCrory has learned one thing about his new job: He’s not in Charlotte anymore, Toto. And he doesn’t like it. At a news conference, the Governor vented thinly veiled frustration at how politics is played in Raleigh. WRAL reported: “Asked if he was concerned about the scrutiny DHHS has faced, McCrory said…
Read MoreIt must be the Governor’s nightmare – opening the newspaper and seeing the acronym ‘DHHS.’ The other morning one headline roared DHHS (the Department of Health and Human Services) had hired another former campaign worker (not from his campaign this time but from the Republican Party) and another headline roared it had fired a…
Read MoreA great investigative reporter once said, “DOT is God’s gift to investigative reporters.” Make way for DHHS. Doesn’t anybody there realize how much political damage they are doing to Governor McCrory? Doesn’t anybody around the Governor? Or McCrory himself? He based his campaign for Governor on ending Raleigh’s “culture of corruption and cronyism”…
Read MoreA while back a candidate running for office for the first time sat down in my office and said, What should I do? and I said: Take a poll. For a moment he didn’t say a word then he smiled and said he already knew what voters in his district thought – which is…
Read MoreCarter made a great point in his blog about the McCrory TV ad. And he made a wonderful classical allusion that greatly elevated the intellectual level of this blog. First, the allusion, “piling Pelion on Ossa.” It’s from Greek mythology. I had to look it up. Here’s the Wikipedia link. As for the…
Read MoreAbout the last thing on earth the Governor needed when he opened the newspaper the other morning was to read the Department of Health and Human Services had hired another former political campaign worker. But it had. Now the young campaign worker – who’s been hired to handle the Department’s ‘branding’ – may…
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Some Trump supporters are surprised to find out they’re Trump victims. Farmers at the American Farm…
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Watching a troupe of politicians sitting in line side by side behind an ornate wooden dais…
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This week was quite a week: Biden pardoned his brother, sister, other brother, a general who…
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