by Matt Phillippi | May 30, 2013 | Democrats, Features, NC Politics, Politics |
So I wrote a piece last week in my efforts to explore the issues within the Democratic Party and how to fix them, which got quite the response. Many of the comments the piece generated reflected deep, long standing rifts within the party. They’re the same issues...
by Thomas Mills | May 28, 2013 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics, NCGA, NCGOP, NCGov |
Politics in North Carolina is truly a mess. On the one side, we have party drunk with power, struggling to control its nuttiest factions and unwilling or unable to curb the opportunists who want to plunder government. On the other, we have a disorganized party with no...
by Thomas Mills | May 27, 2013 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Last week, when I said that the North Carolina Democratic Party should be staffed by professionals, some people questioned my definition of political professionals. Over the past two decades, politics has become a career path. Several universities and colleges offer...
by Thomas Mills | May 25, 2013 | Democrats, Editor's Blog, NC Politics |
Okay. So Randy Voller has succeeded in making an ass of himself and embarrassing the North Carolina Democratic Party. He should probably step down for the good of the party but he won’t and with the current party rules, there’s no viable way to remove him....
by Matt Phillippi | May 23, 2013 | Democrats, Features, NC Politics |
I keep hearing about the ‘activist’ Democrats in the news and their efforts to remake the North Carolina Democratic Party in their own image, and it simply infuriates me. Not their efforts themselves (disastrous though they may have been) but the fact that they’re...
by Matt Phillippi | May 21, 2013 | Democrats, Features, NC Politics |
All of the recent talk about the dysfunction within the North Carolina Democratic Party has gotten me thinking about how to fix those problems. If the Democratic Party wants to get back in the business of getting Democratic candidates elected they need to look within,...
