Mayor Anthony Foxx this afternoon vetoed the budget floated by six councilmembers that would have included a 2.44-cent tax increase to fund a $657 million capital plan without $119 million for Foxx’s coveted Streetcar to Nowhere. The council approved that budget with a 6-4 vote (James Mitchell, absent) and Foxx promptly whipped out the veto […]
The Charlotte budget battle heats up! Seemingly, the only plan which has the votes to pass Council (disturbingly still containing a tax increase and yet supported by the two Republican City Council members) faces the veto threat of Mayor Foxx due to the exclusion of funding for the Streetcar, something he mentioned in campaign mode […]
There was a disturbingly fascinating juxtaposition of links over at Memeorandum late Sunday night that gives chilling insight not only to the Obama administration’s abject shortcomings in the realm of foreign policy, but also its stunning tone deafness to political perceptions and realities: The perspective from Congressman West: A year ago there were those of […]
That was Mayor Anthony Foxx before he became Mayor Anthony Foxx, back in 2009 when he was running around the campaign trail promising everything to everybody. Here’s the money quote in context, via a clip* from the uptown paper that was reposted at the time on the Black Political Buzz blog: Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony […]
Shoot us a link with your favorite tunes (editor@pundithouse.com) and we’ll work them into the rotation. A four-shot as we wade into summer:
If not angry, one can only be bemused at the lies foisted upon the public by recent claims that a property tax increase this year would only be the third tax hike in 25 years. Tell that to those in the annexed areas, where every two years the city raised taxes on those it annexed. […]
PerTwo being the new GOP-adopted nickname for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton, a slam on his ties to incumbent Beverly Perdue and the notion that he’d continue the administration’s failed policies (Perdue/PerTwo ~ get it? Those wacky Republicans). In any event, speaking of failed policies under the Perdue/Dalton administration, North Carolina ranks at the top […]
Gary Ackerman, a career politician from New York, recently announced that he will retire after feeding at the public trough for three decades. Ackerman has devoted his time over the years to advocating for every ill-conceived, left wing idea and his public pronouncements have all come from the leftist playbook. Never once in 30 years […]
So says MSNBC, via “Hardball” guest host Michael Smernconish and Salon senior writer Steve Kornacki, who advance the preposterous and insulting notion that any one who challenges or questions the motives of Attorney General Eric Holder, and by direct extension the Obama administration, in refusing to release relevant information about the disastrous and deadly Fast […]
Money that is, to the tune of about $10 billion (yes, with a B) for a few hundred jobs. This from The Washington Beacon: The Obama administration spent $10 billion to create 355 renewable energy jobs per year, according to testimony offered Tuesday before Congress by a Congressional Research Services expert. Asked by Rep. Cory Gardner […]
