Hang around state politics enough and you’re bound to hear whining about how little our legislators are compensated. According to state law, rank-and-file legislators (not in leadership) get paid $13,951 per year plus $559 per month for expenses. What you…
Tag: ethics
#ncga: Trouble for Timmy?
Uh-oh. Just as Republicans were ramping up their ethics attacks on Roy Cooper, along comes a shady, mysterious non-profit with allegations against a top Raleigh Republican: A government watchdog group is accusing one of North Carolina’s most powerful legislators of…
#ncga: facilitatin’ and clarifyin’
We came across this precious gem on Twitter: “Facilitating equal opportunities for people to use their God given talents”? (Really?) Is that kind of like hooking campaign contributors up with state government printing contracts? Or late-night abuses of the technical…
#ncga: THIS is what my Hebrew friends call ‘chutzpah’.
NC House Republicans have decided that Rules Committee chairman David Lewis will be their point-man on ethics allegations against Roy Cooper and the Democrats. Lewis has come out strong on social media, tweeting stuff like, oh, THIS: “Better to admit…
#ncga: Hey, here’s a thought. GIVE IT BACK.
It must have been quite a spectacle on Jones Street yesterday listening to all those honorables lecturing the Democrat administration about ethics. ( *Because we ALL KNOW that pay-to-play, sleazy backroom deals, and shakedowns for cash in exchange for favors…
#ncga: “Let Jimmy try it.”
Remember the old,Life cereal commercials where the kids get ol’ Mikey to be the first to try the strange new cereal? I’ve come to believe that Jimmy Dixon is the Mikey for the House leadership. The N&O busted Dixon for…
#ncgop: Fur flies (and so do emails) in Woodhouse-Womack spat
Slander [alleged]. Libel [alleged]. Freebies and Freeloaders at the top of the party food chain [alleged]. Sketchy accounting on party FEC reports [alleged]. Grab some popcorn and a comfortable chair, folks. Saturday’s NCGOP executive committee meeting could be downright FUN.…
#ncga: Aquarium brouhaha brings ethics complaint against coastal House, Senate members
THESE kinds of shenanigans are what people when they speak of THE SWAMP that needs to be drained: Several state representatives and a Wilmington developer have been named in an ethics complaint that alleges bid-rigging, undocumented lobbying and antitrust violations…
#ncga: The ghost of Ethics Complaints Past
David Lewis is a powerful man on Jones Street. He chairs the House Rules Committee and is a bona-fide FOT (Friend of Timmy). He has a big say as to whether your legislation sees the light of day on the…
Influence-peddling while Chairing: Dare Co. GOP calls NCGOP’s Hayes on the carpet
NCGOP chairman Robin Hayes’s dual roles as state party chairman AND paid flack for an environmental group has some grassroots Republicans demanding answers. Leaders in the Dare County Republican Party are accusing Hayes of using his political influence to sabotage…