What’s next?
The Moral Monday protests this summer were both inspiring and strategically smart. They were inspiring because they showed people not only care but are willing to stand up and sacrifice for what they believe in. They were sound strategy because they focused the media,...
Flying solo
I owe Pat McCrory’s communications team an apology. They’re not incompetent. They have an incompetent boss. John Frank’s profile of Pat McCrory puts to rest any speculation about who is to blame for McCrory’s gaffes and his refusal to acknowledge them. It’s Pat’s...
Dispatches from the GOP civil war
Edwin Peacock lost the Charlotte Mayor’s race last week. Peacock is a moderate Republican who opposed Amendment One and has served several terms on the Charlotte City Council. He faced fellow council member and Democrat Patrick Cannon but couldn’t cross the finish...
Here they come
Well, it looks like the Republican primary for U. S. Senate is heating up with the march of national players coming into the state. It also looks like the real contenders are shaping up. Karl Rove and is band of pranksters is coming to the state to aid Thom Tillis....
The abuser
When teachers across the state staged a “walk-in” to draw attention to the cuts to education, two of our state leaders had remarkably different reactions. Gov. Pat McCrory started backtracking after signing the budget that did the damage. He said teachers had...
Farm team
Today is Election Day. They’re municipal elections and turnout will be low. However, they are important for two reasons in particular. First, municipal elections, in many ways, have more direct impact on our lives than either state or federal races. Municipal...
Bellwether?
Virginia is one of a handful of states that elects its legislature and council of state in odd-numbered years. Historically, Virginia has given North Carolina, and the nation, an indication of what to expect the following year, especially in politically tumultuous...
A failure to communicate
How many Department of Health and Human Services employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? We don’t know but it will take 19 to run their new marketing and public relations shops. I wonder how much they’ll get paid? You see, they knew something was broken over...
Waiting for failure
Republican interest groups are already gong after Kay Hagan. They believe they have a winner in tying her to Obamacare. In fact, opposition to the Affordable Care Act seems to be central to the GOP strategy up and down the ballot. The North Carolina Republican Party...
Wrong messengers
Score one for the teachers. This week, teachers plan a “walk-in” inviting parents and others to schools to discuss the education budget. Predictably, the GOP howled. Senators Phil Berger and Neal Hunt protested the move as putting politics in the classroom and pointed...
