The endorsement game
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has jumped into the North Carolina Senate primary. They followed EMILY’s List’s endorsement of Deborah Ross, further indicating that Ross is about to show a healthy end-of-year report. The national Democratic establishment...
It’s government dysfunction, stupid.
It’s election year and pundits across the political spectrum are speculating about what will drive the electorate next November. In 2014 in North Carolina, the Kay Hagan campaign almost made the election about public education and almost bucked a national GOP wave....
Dance with the one that brung ya
Coastal North Carolina towns are coming out against off-shore drilling. Who can blame them? Accidents off the Gulf coast have closed beaches, caused long-term environmental damage and harmed both the fishing and tourism industries. Drilling poses risks that could...
More King, less Trump
Yesterday, we honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose work included expanding access to the polls to people who had been denied the right to vote by laws passed by state governments. Until the Civil Rights Movement that King led jarred the conscience of the...
The most competitive district
I’m an accidental candidate for Congress. I didn’t plan on running in North Carolina's Eighth District but when I realized nobody would file, seven minutes before the deadline I threw my name in the hat. I believe that people deserve a choice in elections and that...
The only thing that matters
In a US Senate primary where no one has substantial name recognition, money is the only thing that matters. EMILY’s List’s endorsement of Deborah Ross now makes her the clear frontrunner. The organization will make sure that she has the money to get her message out...
Hope and change
As a Democrat, I’ve often been frustrated by Barack Obama’s failure to sell or defend his programs, but last night he nailed it. He laid out his accomplishments, defended his legacy, and described the challenges facing the country over the next decade. Even my uncle,...
Role reversals
The Republicans may have control of North Carolina today, but Democrats own the future. In only a little over five years, the GOP has transformed from the party of activists and change to the party of establishment and cronyism. While North Carolina Democrats are...
Something about glass houses
Birthers spent the first six years of Obama’s term claiming that he was ineligible to serve as president of the United States because he was born in Kenya, which he wasn’t. Now, Ted Cruz is having his eligibility questioned. In contrast to Obama, who actually was born...
Choosing his facts
It looks like Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest wants to pick and choose his data. Forest rejected a report showing that charter schools in the state are disproportionally white and wealthy. That’s not what the light guv wanted to hear. He rejected the report as too...
