Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
After Lanier Cansler figured out how to end run the Medicaid appeals process (so he could cut patients’ home care pretty much however he wanted) he was ready to take the next step. He’d already given CCME Corporation (his former client from his lobbying days) a $25 million no bid contract, so all he…
Read MoreFerrel Guillory – along with his colleagues and students in the Program on Public Life at UNC’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication – has published a useful guide to political polls. Get it at their website here. This is timely, given the plethora of polls today, the extensive media coverage they get and…
Read MoreBack when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, we figured fightin’ was going to be the key to winning the war, so we told General McArthur to charge and keep charging and not to worry about the amount of havoc he wrecked until the Japanese were whipped. In the same vein in 1944 and ’45…
Read MoreWhenever a politician or party talks about “mobilizing the base” in the final weeks of a campaign, you know they’re in trouble. That’s exactly where President Obama and the Democrats are, as this story from the New York Times noted: “With four weeks until Congressional elections that will shape the remainder of his…
Read MoreAfter Secretary Lanier Cansler gave a 25$ million no bid contract (to his former client CCME Corporation) and promised legislators that meant he’d be able to cut in-home care to Medicaid patients $50 million (because, he said, 45% of the patients were cheats) he ran into a problem. When he ran all the patients’ records through…
Read MoreIf the Republican takeover of the Wake County school board last year was a sign of what’s to come in this year’s elections, will this week’s train wreck on the board be a sign of what’s to come next year – in Raleigh and Washington? Campaigning is much easier than governing, as President Obama…
Read More“Prom Queen!” “Calm down, now, John.” “I enjoyed our friendship – while it lasted.” It sounds like two middle-schoolers having a bad breakup. But no. It was the Wake County school board majority falling out of love. And they did it with such grace and style. So mature and professional. Such…
Read MoreA few years ago Secretary Lanier Cansler’s Department decided to ‘reform’ care for the mentally ill and when they finished the state’s mental hospitals were in a shambles and schizophrenics were being handcuffed to beds in Emergency Rooms in local hospitals because the state had nowhere to care for them. Next Cansler’s Department decided…
Read MorePearse Edwards in Governor Perdue’s office has pushed back hard against Public Policy Polling’s conclusion that she is a “liability” to Democrats this year because of her “failure to communicate with average voters” In comments posted on PPP’s blog, Edwards called that analysis “not only unfair but wrong.” He added: “Gov. Perdue’s net…
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