A (not-so) civil war in Pope-land?
THAT is what it is looking like. Gazillionaire Art Pope has his hand — and cash — behind an awful lot of things political that are purportedly conservative. The John
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John Locke Foundation & Planned Parenthood: A “Winning” Team?
Yessirree, bob. The John Locke Foundation and their fearless – and tap-dancing, I may add — leader are joining forces with the likes of Planned Parenthood and the AFL-CIO to
Continue readingLocke Foundation teams up with a bunch of libs. (Um, Yay.)
John Hood and Chris Fitzsimon don’t just team up on NC Spin. They are also doing it more and more on state policy matters: A coalition of policy and
Continue readingSCOTUS puts brakes on Soros-Barber-Cooper tag team efforts to obtain new maps, elections for 2017
For a while, it’s been looking like — if you can’t get your way at the ballot box — you judge-shop until you find an old law school crony in
Continue reading#ncga: Sen. Rucho takes time, on his way out the door, to melt one of Roy Cooper’s ‘snowflakes’
‘Snowflakes’ are the easily-offended beta males you see clapping along obediently alongside their overweight alpha-feminist significant other in the audience at ‘The View.’ They take Womyn’s Studies classes in college as
Continue readingSources: New congressional maps to stand
I am hearing that we will get word today or early next week that the new congressional districts in North Carolina HAVE BEEN blessed by the federal judges who struck down
Continue readingRoberts passes. (Game ON?)
Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed the lower court ruling on North Carolina’s congressional districts stand. Soooooo – it’s now a certainty we won’t be voting for Members of Congress
Continue reading#ncga: A redistricting Lawsuit-palooza ??? (Unleash the ambulance chasers!)
I talked with some Jones Street insiders today who have an interesting take on where this whole congressional redistricting kerfuffle might be heading. The consensus? It’s unlikely that we will
Continue reading#ncpol: Holding v. Ellmers, and other redistricting scuttlebutt
Yep. Nee-Nee v. Big George. THAT was the hot topic of discussion on Jones Street yesterday. The new 2nd district includes a good chunk of what Holding has been representing
Continue reading#ncga: Don’t like the way the table is set? Turn over the table.
What started out as a mission to tweak a few districts to bring the 1st and 12th congressional districts in line has resulted in radical change for a lot more
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