Party disloyalty ??? (*SIGH*)
The soap opera in Haywood County just keeps on giving: In a story that sounds like it should have come out of Moscow in 1938 or Havana in 1961 rather
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#ncgop: All in the (dysfunctional) family
This weekend’s NCGOP convention is shaping up to make the WWE (or any episode of Maury) look like a Wednesday night prayer meeting in comparison. NC $pin: Remember the big
Continue readingWomack: Helen Keller > Robin Hayes
Yeah. The Robin Hayes unity tour is looking and sounding like a bang-up success. Just listen to Lee County GOP vice-chairman Jim Womack: Supporters of former N.C. Republican Party chairman
Continue readingNCGOP attorney hit with state bar complaint
The lawyer driving the NCGOP central committee’s effort to fire state chairman Hasan Harnett appears to have come into a little trouble himself. A Republican activist from Haywood County has
Continue readingPat McCrory’s “stimulus”
Barry Obama sold us his “stimulus” scam promising that it would: (1) create jobs, (2) boost the economy, and (3) make America a sooooooo much better place. Well, the stimulus
Continue reading#ncga: A mad rush to leech on to the state employee health plan
Senator Bill Rabon is quite the trailblazer. We reported earlier on his efforts to get the town employees of Southport — his hometown — onto the state employees’ health plan.
Continue reading”If we can’t trust the government, WHO can we trust?”
Yep. Haywood County commissioner Michael Sorrells (D)posed that question in an election profile news story published in a local paper. Haywood County has been very very good to us. It’s been
Continue reading“If you want to be an activist group, go somewhere else.”
So sayeth a key GOP establishment figure in western North Carolina. At the September 15th meeting of the Haywood County board of commissioners, county GOP chair Patricia Carr presented a
Continue readingWe are the government. We know better than you. Shut up. Sit down.
Haywood County is a quiet little place off the beaten path in western North Carolina. But a lively group of grassroots activists is raising a ruckus that has the political
Continue readingMonkey Business Report: Property valuations, property taxes, and transparency
Something I learned long ago: politicians don’t like giving our money back. Local politicians can claim that they’ve held the line on property tax rates. (It chafes me, BIG TIME,
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