Corrupting influences
A complaint filed yesterday by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) based on an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity makes clear that Carolina Rising, the conservative nonprofit once run by current NC GOP executive director Dallas...
Finally ready for Hillary
About a year or so ago, when Bernie Sanders wasn’t on the radar screen and the SuperPAC Ready for Hillary was serving as a campaign-in-waiting, my late friend Ross Bates said that he wasn’t really Ready for Hillary but he was resigned to Hillary. He wasn’t an...
Walk away
I’ve got an idea. How about Tom Ross stays president of the University of North Carolina and the whole UNC Board of Governors resigns? After all, they freely admit that Ross has done nothing wrong and yet they clearly have. We need a functioning board, not a new...
A riches of embarrassment
Republicans always tell us they want to run government like a business. If they ran their businesses like they’re running North Carolina, they would be run out of town. In particular, they are embarrassing themselves as they run the University of North Carolina into...
Senate tryouts
We have a Senate race in North Carolina. Or at least we might. Deborah Ross’ entry into the contest gives Democrats a candidate who is smart, accomplished, connected—and attractive. She’ll need to leverage those assets into the type of resources she needs to run a...
Democrats won the debate, Hillary Clinton in particular
Well, the Democrats won the debate. After two debacles that resembled reality TV more than political discourse, the Republican party has a lot of work to do. Every Democrat on the stage came across as a more serious candidate than any Republican candidate in their...
And they’re off!
For years, North Carolinians joked that election season officially began when the media and others started speculating on what Roy Cooper was going to do. He passed on several Senate races and gubernatorial contest but this year, he’s in. Looking back, those were...
Dirty laundry
About 50 years ago, the Republican party made a deal with the devil. Today, they’re paying the price. They have a caucus in Washington that is essentially ungovernable because a large segment of it doesn’t want to or know how to govern. In the wake of the Civil Rights...
The need for compromise
Before everybody jumps on me as a shill for Hillary Clinton, let me say that I’m not working for the Clinton campaign. I’m not even enamored with Hillary Clinton and not sure she can win next November. In fact, if Joe Biden got into the race I would have a hard time...
People v. finances
John Hood’s most recent column shows the difference between conservative priorities and progressive ones. Hood writes, “Over the past five years, conservative leaders in the General Assembly have enacted a series of tax cuts and tax reforms that will foster...
