Category: NC legislature
Jones Street. The partisan index. And 2020.
The North Carolina Free Enterprise Foundation, a GOP-leaning establishment pro-business group, regularly analyzes our General Assembly districts and computes things called partisan indexes. These are sort of like the spreads that bookies put on sporting events. The history of each party’s performance in each…
#ncga: 2019 legislator ratings. (Yay!)
Art Pope, Inc. has released its 2019 conservatism ratings of our state legislators. Seventeen votes were hand-picked for the House study. (There were 15 in the Senate.) Of course, voting “correctly” on all 17 (or 15) gets you a score of 100 — perfect…
Crocodile tears over judges
It’s interesting to see and hear all of these Republican bigwigs bemoan “legislating from the bench”: Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have voted for MANY of these judges who have overturned votes of North Carolinians and their state legislators. The state…
#ncga: Yoga Pants, adult beverages, and DAVID LEWIS.
Oh, the things politicians will attach their names to: Depending on who is wearing them, Yoga pants can be the most wonderful things. Yet, David Lewis is (1) very married, (2) representing a county that is a Southern Baptist powerhouse,…
#ncga: Is primary challenge to Boles being powered by the Po-Po?
It’s not clear whether we’re talking about a small minority of Moore County law enforcement officers or a significant chunk. But it is pretty clear that some active and retired lawmen in the county are awfully excited about Southern Pines police chief Bob…
State incentives meant to aid poorer, rural counties go mostly to Wake, Meck
Um, SURPRISE ???? Plant closures and job losses have hit rural parts of our state the hardest. Raleigh politicians talk a great game about helping those folks bounce back, but a new study shows their actions are not matching their…
More on 2020 filing
Here’s the final list. The Libertarian Party actually has a candidate named “Vermin Supreme” who has qualified for North Carolina’s March presidential primary ballot. While they appear to be abandoning the 2nd and 6th congressional districts, state Republicans seem to…
Some thoughts on filing (thus far)
Here is the latest list. Revenge. Rematch. etc. It seems a number of folks are attempting to regain posts they lost in 2018. Former senator Mike Lee appears to be attempting a comeback in the Wilmington area. Over in the Fayetteville…
#ncga: ANOTHER ONE ???
One million dollar lawsuit is BAD enough . But TWO ????? A powerful state lawmaker whose farm is struggling has been hit with a second $1-million-plus debt collection lawsuit. John Deere Financial sued state Rep.David Lewis, one of the top Republican leaders…
Gov. Bumpkin says DON’T BE DIVISIVE. (That’s HIS job.)
Rarely has anyone climbed so far so fast, with so little substance to his résumè and no record of significant positive accomplishments, than Roy Cooper. During his sixteen years as state AG, the most significant prosecutions occurred when the feds stepped in and…
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