Going full Trump
“If Jennifer Roberts, Roy Cooper and the far-left Political Correctness Mob she’s unleashed really care about the economic future of her city, they’ll stop the misinformation campaign immediately … before more damage is done” That’s part of the statement released by...
The chameleon
In North Carolina’s 8th Congressional District, incumbent Richard Hudson is facing a new electorate. When the legislature redrew his district in February, they gave him three new counties and took away others where he’s better known. Now, he needs to introduce himself...
Getting his politics wrong
Pat McCrory just can’t get his politics right. He’s once again botched a situation after he almost got it right. This time, his mistake has come at the wrong time in the election cycle and might just cost him the Governor’s Mansion. When the Charlotte City Council...
Discrimination as a campaign tool
House Bill 2 wasn’t the only bill dealing with protections for the LGBT community to come up this week. In states across the South, legislatures were passing bills that would allow businesses and individuals to discriminate. In Georgia and Virginia, governors vetoed...
His vanishing world
Pat McCrory’s response to the backlash to HB2, the sweeping law that strips away protections for LGBT citizens and overrides local government control, is that everybody’s been duped by a biased media and liberal spin machine. The world is out to get the him and the...
Steppin’ up
Roy Cooper indicated that he was running for governor less than a year into Pat McCrory’s term. He was so dismayed by the direction that Republicans were taking the state, that he felt obligated to jump into the race. Democrats cheered his announcement after two...
Opening the cultural divide
The dispute over the Republican-led General Assembly’s sweeping bill to deny LGBT people protections from discrimination highlights the cultural divide in North Carolina and much of the nation. It also highlights another problem with gerrymandered districts....
The party of pointing fingers
Remember when the GOP was the party of personal responsibility? Not any more. Now, they’re the party of pointing fingers. They’re blaming everybody but themselves for the continuing bad press being heaped on their party. After Republicans passed sweeping legislation...
Defining North Carolina
Republicans really haven’t learned too much from this election cycle. Their presidential contest got hijacked by a reality star who appeals to the most xenophobic and racist tendencies of the GOP base. He’s been successful largely because nobody in the Republican...
Donald Trump and the GOP deserve each other
Politically, yesterday should have been a slam dunk for North Carolina Republicans. They had a narrow social issue that appealed to their base and a message, no matter how deceiving, that sounded reasonable to most citizens. According to them, they were set to pass a...
