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Attorney General Josh Stein has built quite a reputation for refusing to represent the state when it is sued by liberal activists. He’s also been known to run lovingly — at the drop of a hat — into the arms of left-wing activists suing in defense of their ideological passions.
Here’s what our lil’ man Josh over at the DOJ – currently the Democrat nominee for governor – says his job is:
I caught up with a friend who has spent quite a bit of time running in elite circles in Raleigh’s legal community. His take on the job of the attorney general? The AG’s clients are, primarily and realistically, the General Assembly and, secondly, the governor.
Okay. So, we have a Republican gubernatorial nominee who doesn’t like to do important parts of his job: attending Council of State meetings and Board of Education meetings. We also apparently have a Democrat nominee refusing to do his job — defending state government when it is taken to court. (*What a choice we have in 2024, people.*)
To compensate for Stein’s refusal to represent the state, legislative leaders have had to resort to hiring private counsel when the leftist hordes come calling (and suit-filing). We consulted with some bean-counters over on Jones Street and learned that the cost of finding others to do Stein’s job for him has — between 2017 and 2024 — reached a total of nearly $37.5 million. There is still a lot of court action going on. That number is sure to get bigger.
In each state. budget, the Department of Justice is appropriated a lot of money to pay Josh and a bunch of his lawyers to represent our state in court as-needed. Stein & co. are still getting all of that budget money. But it’s apparently not being used to defend North Carolina and its people in court. The sums displayed in this chart have gone to private law firms who have stepped in and tried to do lil’ Josh’s job for him. This money could have gone to something more worthwhile.
Our legislators rarely approve a budget on-time. They fawn all over lobbyists selling them on expensive pork that we didn’t ask for and often don’t need.
Mark Robinson, as lieutenant governor, has very few duties in his job description. Two of them, though, are to take part in Council of State meetings and meetings of the State Board of Education. Folks in-the-know in Raleigh will tell you he has rarely been at either of those events.
Roy Cooper got rewarded and elevated up the Raleigh food chain for not doing his job. He allowed the state crime lab to become a mess. He was the one who allowed all of those rape kits to go untested for so long. Ol’ Roy, as AG, started the tradition – which lil’ Josh appears to be carrying on — of letting his political ideology determine whether he was going to do his job on behalf of the people of North Carolina.
If someone in state government is not doing their job, they need to be sent packing like someone in private business would be. That’s not rocket science.
Folks, we deserve better than this. We CAN do better than this. Why don’t we?
NC has a majority-led gop for how many years now? Any outrage from them on Stein, Coop?
Not that I recall, but correct me if wrong.
Therein lies the proverbial problem. NONE of them are worth a dam****…
NC has weak leadership from every sector, including COS. Troxler, though very popular is far from a conservative.
Folwell and Causey have carried the mantel and torch alone, totally alone with NO support. We are losing Folwell and Causey is taking on heat and fire. Dare we speak of our conservative Bd of Ed elector; whose 1st hire was a far-left, liberal hack??
McCrory destroyed the governorship during his tenure as a so-called something other than a democrat. May as well have been a democrat.
Other than the remaining months Folwell has, the state will be down to 1 conservative, that being Causey.
It appears Stein has a large lead; not from my vote, but he seems to have the support. THIS state will be reckless and woeful if he sits in the mansion. Seems the entire gop slate is not blazing hot at the moment.
Here in an even worse travesty where Josh (Franken)Stein has betrayed North Carolina, its education system, and particularly its girls. If we had a competent GOP gubenatorial candidate, they would be eating Stein up with it.
26 states have sued the Biden-Harris regime to stop extremely radical Title IX “rules” that turn Title IX as passed by Congress on its head. Instead of protecting women and girls in education, as Congressionally passed Title IX has done since 1972, the Biden-Harris version protects “gender identity” and “sexual orientation.” It means boys in girls restrooms and locker rooms, cheating girls out of their places in womens athletics, and, hiding “transgender” behavior from parents, among other things. Its effective date in our public schools was the beginning of this month. The US Supreme Court on Friday entered an order by 9-0 to block these Biden-Harris rules in all 26 states where state AG’s have filed suit, pending litigation.
North Carolina is the ONLY southeastern state where our girls and woman are NOT protected from this nonsense. That is because far left NC AG Stein is the ONLY state AG in our region NOT to file a lawsuit to block this despicable Biden-Harris power grab.
Our far left NC Board of Education, and the absolutely useless NC School Boards Association, are in bed with Biden-Harris in urging county school boards to knuckle under and adopt local policies to implement the Biden-Harris distortion of Title IX. If the NC School Boards Association really represented school boards instead of its own internal liberal bureaucracy, they would have been publicly demanding that Stein do his job and file suit like the other states. No conservative run school board should keep their membership in this worthless group. In fact, it would be good to set up a rival organization to this useless one.
Fortunately, GOP candidate for Superintendant of Public Instruction Michele Morrow and Rep. Keith Kidwell have been trying to line up resources for a lawsuit on behalf of NC’s girls to block this Biden-Harris travesty. There is already a lawsuit pending in Washington state filed by parties outside the state AG’s office. It is time for North Carolina to go around our completely useless state AG Stein to protect our girls.
You apparently have faith or expectation?
I have NONE.
Come November I believe this state will be blue, solid. Hope I am wrong, because I intend to continue living here.
What will the gop do now that they have been quite unwilling to do for the last 5-6Y?
Why hasn’t Stein either been impeached or had his exorbitant state salary withheld for not doing his job? If the NCGOP had an ounce of backbone, one or both would have been done long ago!