Carter Wrenn
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.…
In thirty years in politics I’ve only seen a handful of problems with no solutions. None at all. For example once during Steve Forbes first Presidential campaign we got trapped in a corner in Iowa – and there was no way out. None. But, then, as usually happens in politics the tides shifted and…
UPS – The Governor’s up for somehow convincing House and Senate Republican leaders to attack her for juggling the state’s books to send out $300 million in tax refunds. The Republicans are up for raiding (or trying to raid because they failed) the Governor’s Golden Leaf pork-barrel fund to use the money to pay…
I don’t understand exactly what ‘collective bargaining’ means but if it means what it sounds like – a group of workers banding together to increase their power when they bargain for better pay – it seems they have a right to do that. At the same time, looking at what is happening in Wisconsin…
A Democratic reader wonders why Republicans have gone soft on deadbeats. Ronald Reagan excoriated “welfare queens.” The Tea Party denounced freeloaders who sponge off hard-working taxpayers. Republican Governors pick loud fights with public-employee “leeches” who get big salaries and generous benefits, courtesy of the taxpayers. The reader asks: What about people who don’t…
Emails, it turns out, like lemmings have a remarkable capacity to reproduce – one breeds ten which breeds an avalanche of messages pouring into inboxes. Back in the old days you wrote a letter to one person; today with the click of a button you can send an email to thirty people, and people…
Having a Republican legislature and a Democratic Governor fighting over how to best save North Carolina has sure made our politics more entertaining. The Republicans passed a bill to save us from Obama-care – which didn’t go down at all well with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper who the Republican legislative leaders ordered to…
Governor Perdue won her first veto fight. And Raleigh’s political chemistry is in flux. Despite their majorities, Republicans now face a Governor who looks stronger than she did a week ago. And then there is the swing power of a handful of conservative Democratic legislators. For Perdue’s part, she has to be careful…
The crowds and the quality of basketball aren’t the only things in decline at the ACC tournament. So is its political prestige. Back when, the tournament was The Place to Be for The Powers That Be. A walk around the concourse was a power walk among legislators, decision-makers and North Carolina’s elite. But…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
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