Beverly Perdue was the first North Carolina Governor to veto a state budget. She is now the first North Carolina Governor to have her budget veto overridden. While it was widely reported that the Thom Tillis led North Carolina House would vote to override the veto on Wednesday, it came as a surprise when it […]
Any speculation as to whether Governor Perdue would veto the recently passed North Carolina budget was put to rest on Sunday when she did what any good partisan running for reelection would do…she vetoed it and proceeded to send a fundraising email to supporters the following day claiming that the Republican-drawn budget will do “generational damage” to […]
If there were any doubt that the Tea Party remains alive and active, attending the North Carolina Republican Convention last weekend would have put those doubts to rest. The heavily attended convention in Wilmington was filled with celebratory members of the GOP who for the first time in over a century could come to convention […]
Never one to fear a good counter protest, I’d like to encourage folks to attend Congressman Mick Mulvaney’s Town Hall meeting in Lake Wylie tonight. Mick is one of the “good guys”, as evidenced by the planned protest by Organizing for America. From CAUTION and Freedomworks: Organizing For America (OFA), President Obama’s well-funded political outfit, […]
The following letter was sent to House Speaker Thom Tillis by Representative Glen Bradley, whose NC Jobs Bill (HB 587) has been all but ignored by Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor Chairman Darrell McCormick. McCormick, in fact, is even accused of becoming physically confrontational with Bradley over Bradley’s attempts to simply […]
Because our legislators apparently don’t have any other pressing matters, they’ve decided to go after tanning parlors and the under-age tanners that infiltrate them. This from WRAL: A bill pending in the General Assembly would require anyone under 18 to get a physician’s prescription to use a tanning booth. State law now allows youths age […]
Beverly Perdue is apparently bent on cobbling together remnants the campaign team that helped Barack Obama carry the state in his 2008 presidential run. And the NCGOP is eating it up as fodder to take shots at Perdue, as evidenced by the “congratulatory” message posted on the party’s website: NCGOP Congratulates Governor Perdue on Latest […]
It’s time to rally true conservatives and Tea Party members across the state to the cause; not of defeating some liberal politician, but of reminding our GOP leaders in the state Senate and House to the fact that they were elected last November to save America from financial ruin – the financial ruin caused by […]
While our control freak federal government has declared the traditional incandescent light bulb verboten, mandating instead that we begin flipping the switch using only the screwy, weird-looking compact florescent variety, legislatures from South of the Border are keeping a glimmer of sanity alive. This from Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry: Fed up with the federal government’s […]
The North Carolina Association of Educators has kept busy this year organizing rallies and lobbying efforts to protest education cuts in the state’s budget, gnashing teeth about the potential impact on teacher salaries. At the same time, the North Carolina Association of Educators has also kept busy lining its own pockets, a trend that dates […]
