One of the refrains often heard from advocates of taxpayer-funded elections is that eliminating the need to raise money will encourage more candidates to run for office. (Although, it’s been shown in Chapel Hill’s taxpayer-funded campaign ploy to not be true.) In fact, the organization established in North Carolina to lobby for taxpayer-funded elections, the [...]
Perdue’s Hypocrisy Reaches New Heights
Wow, just when you thought Gov. Bev Perdue’s hypocrisy on releasing inmates from prison couldn’t get any worse, it does. So despite her very public, poll number pandering position on keeping some felons sentenced to life in prison in the 1970s locked up, Perdue’s actions continue to show she feels otherwise. On August 28, 2009, [...]
Bad, Bad BCBS. But Thanks for the Money.
20 lawmakers have sent a letter to Attorney General Roy Cooper and Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin asking for an investigation into Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (BCBS) postcard campaign to get people to contact Sen. Kay Hagan to oppose the public option. Apparently these 20 feel BCBS’s actions are at the least “bad public policy” [...]
Sell all the planes!
It looks like the legislature is going to sell one of the planes owned and operated by the State Department of Commerce. That is a good start but what they are selling is the slower and less comfortable of the two planes, a Beech King Air, and not the faster, more luxurious, Cessna jet. They also [...]
Where’s Bev’s Concern for Working Families Now?
Gov. Perdue scuttled last week’s budget agreement over her concern over raising income taxes on “working families and middle class families” yet has openly supported increasing the cigarette tax up to $1 per pack. I’d like to point out to the Governor the hypocrisy of her statement. Take this chart from Gallup for example: So [...]
