The GOP’s Bev Perdue situation
Pat McCrory is having a bad summer. Senate Republicans have dismissed the governor as irrelevant and misguided. House members have insulted him, too. His Secretary of Transportation left in the middle of the legislative session, leaving McCrory’s chief legislative...
The NC GOP clown car
It looks like the clown car is rolling over at the NC GOP headquarters. Ricky Diaz is fighting the Moral Monday movement with as much snark and ridicule as he can muster and Chairman Hasan Harnett is trying to compare Hillary Clinton to the Ku Klux Klan. Moral Monday...
McCrory’s bad week continues
Pat McCrory’s bad week last week just spilled over into this week. Last week, Pat McCrory was ridiculed by a host of legislators and sued by news organizations for failing to release long-requested public documents. This week, his Transportation Secretary, Tony Tata,...
Shots fired
Well, the Daily Haymaker, the right-wing gossip sheet, has some interesting news. It seems that Republicans believe Pat McCrory is trying to take out a group of GOP senators. Apparently, someone did “push polling” in several districts and that a GOP operative “close...
Arrogance
Last week, Republican arrogance was on full display. First, they took turns ridiculing the governor, who admittedly is a bit of a joke. Then, they took vacation on the taxpayers dime. Clearly, they don’t believe they will be held accountable for their actions. As...
An ugly breakup
Pat McCrory’s angry letter-to-the-editor of the Charlotte Observer was really a remarkable document. The Observer’s not just any newspaper. It’s his hometown newspaper and they endorsed him twice in his runs for governor and every time he ran for mayor. The...
The #CarolinaThrowback–to the 1950s
Pat McCrory has had such a bad week that we almost missed the worst news--the June jobs report. North Carolina’s unemployment rate rose for fourth straight month to 5.8%. The state lost 4,000 jobs from May to June. In contrast, the U. S. economy gained 223,000 jobs...
He’s back!
He’s back! After more than a year of restraint, the freewheeling Pat McCrory of old showed up in a letter-to-the-editor in the Charlotte Observer. The governor defended his lawyer, Bob Stephens, after an Observer op-ed questioned Stephens’ competence or motives....
The ribbon-cutter
Poor Pat McCrory. Never has the governor of any state been so disrespected by the other leaders of his own party. This weekend, Republican Senator Tom Apodaca told the Asheville Citizens-Times, “The governor doesn’t play much of a role in anything.” Ouch! McCrory came...
Whose side are they on?
If you had any doubt whose side the GOP is on, you shouldn’t after reading the N&O’s story about unclaimed insurance policies. The Senate has passed a bill that would essentially allow large insurers to keep the money from unclaimed life insurance policies. Many...
