#ncga budget: See Timmy Spin. (Spin, Timmy, Spin.)
We’ve got a budget deal. Despite the revelation earlier this year that we have a surplus of over a HALF BILLION DOLLARS, GOPe-controlled Jones Street is spending more and putting
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MORE free day care, courtesy of the NCGOPe
The NC House Republican leadership is on the verge of helping Governor Roy Cooper keep another campaign promise: In a moment of bipartisan agreement, North Carolina lawmakers could eliminate the
Continue readingDrowning in his OWN B.S. (The Ed Dennison story)
Thats what happened — according to one of my moles – to Moore County school board chairman Ed Dennison at Saturday’s northern Moore GOP precinct meetings. If you haven’t followed
Continue reading#ncga: A budget surplus ??? (GIVE IT BACK)
Guess what? They shook more money out of us than they needed: North Carolina government revenues are projected to exceed expectations by more than a half-billion dollars this fiscal year,
Continue reading#ncga: *Sniff, sniff.* I smell PORK.
The drivebys are trumpeting a great agreement on the budget between the two chambers on Jones Street. This agreement is loaded with the same kind of pork-flavored crap we’ve grown to
Continue reading#ncga: Trying to make cents of all those budget dollars
Well, the honorables on Jones Street have killed A LOT of trees to try and explain their spending plan for 2016-2017. Republicans will tout it as fiscal responsibility, while Democrats
Continue reading#ncga: “De plane. De Plane.” (…ain’t gettin’a dime.)
Fresh off of getting his spending spree card punched for two more years by his low-information Wake County constituents, “Little Lord” Nelson Dollar one again failed to, um, disappoint. The N&O’s
Continue reading#ncga: Driving to Raleigh to spend other people’s money is HARD.
That’s the pitiful plea that we’re hearing from Jones Street: Describing themselves as being in a “Catch 22” over their compensation, a committee of state lawmakers on Monday approved a
Continue reading#ncga: The big fight for the short session? Tax reform vs. MORE SPENDING & PAY RAISES
Contrary to the prurient desires of The Gay News & Observer, HB2 is not being seen as the big fight in the GOP-dominated General Assembly during this short session. John
Continue reading#ncga: A conservative direction? (THAT is not what the numbers tell us.)
If you believe the GOPe campaign rhetoric, they’ve got our state headed in a “conservative direction.” *Wow. That sounds great. We must be cutting taxes and the size of government
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