Carter Wrenn
Gary Pearce
Sometimes a candidate comes along who is so compelling that, even though he’s running for office in another state, I am compelled to bring him to your attention. Please meet Basil Marceaux.com. of Tennessee. He could be the next Alvin Green.
The State Democratic Party convention is in Fayetteville this weekend. If you go, you can see how much politics has changed in a lifetime. State party conventions used to be a big deal. Huge crowds, lots of enthusiasm and a good chance to take a party’s temperature for the upcoming elections. The latter…
So let’s talk about what Raleigh’s buzzing about this week: Is there some kind of statutory deadline in the Mike Easley case this month – that is, tomorrow? Is something coming from the U.S. Attorney? Is this investigation ever going to end? Is George Holding holding on until President Obama’s second…
“Controlled choice” is all the buzz now in the Wake schools debate. This has the whiff of one of those oxymoronic (with the emphasis on “moron”) political/policy phrases that sounds great but never quite works out in practice. Remember George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”?
My blog about the capital press corps – and how its coverage of the Alcoa story might have been influenced by UNC-TV’s Eszter Vajda – brought this response from Scott Mooneyham of The Insider/Capitol Press Association. I think it’s worth reprinting in full. Background: I had quoted a blog by Laura Leslie about how…
A Republican lobbyist friend has some advice for GOP legislators if they win the House and Senate this year: demand a recount. “They’ll inherit the worst budget mess in history,” she says. Two years spent wrestling with that mess – and making the cuts that would be required to read their lips: no…
Let’s pass on talking about politics today and talk about something I know nothing about: Economics. My friend Richard, who’s a banker, just sent me a book called The Forgotten Man about the Depression. Now, normally, I’d run from a book about economics but Ms. Amity Shlaes has written a fascinating story about New…
Have I missed it? Or has somebody done – and released – a poll of Wake County voters on the school debate? Most people I run into take it as a matter of faith that the board’s new direction reflects a minority opinion in the county. True, it was the election for just…
There are two kinds of political leaders: uniters and dividers. Barack Obama is a uniter; Sarah Palin, a divider. Jim Hunt was a uniter; Jesse Helms, a divider. Ronald Reagan was a uniter; George W. Bush, a divider. Dividers can succeed in politics. But they don’t leave lasting legacies of accomplishment. The…
The political sniping began even as chaos still reigned at the White House Correspondents Dinner. My…
A new nationwide poll shows that, if they could run against each other in 2028, Barack…
Senator Phil Berger was out of touch with voters in his district – and suffered the…