Uncle Phil: No casinos? Then, no budget for YOU.
The word I am getting from our very own Sin City is that the deal to plant four new casinos outside of tribal lands is toes-up dead.
Folks on the House side of things are all pointing their fingers at Team Berger on the Senate side. House folks say Berger’s hard-line stance ticked off a lot of folks back home and made the casinos a lot harder to sell to individual legislators AND their constituents. If you’re mad about not getting a casino, blame Uncle Phil. That’s the word from the House side.
I’m also hearing that Team Berger may also kill off passage of any kind of new budget. Two 
months after it was due. A lot of folks were waiting and counting on funding and pay raises that will now, likely, go away until next year. If you’re mad about not getting a budget — more than two months after it was due — blame Uncle Phil and his gang. That’s what I hear from both chambers.
Gee, with all of this disunity and finger-pointing, you’d think we have divided partisan control of the state legislature.
“ Gee, with all of this disunity and finger-pointing, you’d think we have divided partisan control of the state legislature.”
We do.
It’s the UNIPARTY vs the Constitutional Conservatives.
Phil Berger has become an embarassment to the Republican Party, and he is totally out of control on his power trip and ego trip. His tantrum over the casinos that most of his own party base doesn’t want threatens to damage the GOP ticket in the critical 2024 election in what is presently a swing state. I can still remember the era when Berger still had conservative principles and integrity and was not obsessed with his own ego and power, but those days are long gone. Berger is now the poster boy for term limits, a spot he could easily share with Tim Moore.
Republicans need to deal with our Berger / Moore problem. It looks like the second part of that may go away for us, unless we are stuck with someone else from his insider clique who would be just as bad. Is there anyone in Berger’s district with the cajones to take him on in a primary? If so, conservatives from around the state should pony up to send Berger packing. If not, is there someone in the Senate caucus with the cajones to challenge Berger for senate leadership who is not part of Berger’s clique themselves?.
Interesting. Berger wanted Medicaid expansion, now forestalls it with no new budget over gambling.
So the whole NC budget is on hold because the citizens have said no to gambling outside of Tribal lands. Most all our NC elected officials suck, the dollar, that is. . They get richer while we citizens are stagnant.
Let’s get Alvin Jackson back out to run against Phil! He is a staunch conservative and not afraid to stand up to the bullies to do the right thing!
He needs to file in the primary, not run as an Unaffiliated, and then conservatives around the state need to send him contributions. Let’s flip the Berger! He is not only an embarassment to the party, but also more and more often, he is a 5th columnist for the Democrats (HB2 repeal, Medicaid expansion, Green New Deal, etc.) Republicans can do awhole lot better than Phil Berger.
Good! No budget means:
1. NO casinos!
2. NO Medicaid expansion!
3. NO NCInnovations scam!
Hey, did anyone else get a call from a pollster about North Carolina politics and politicians? I did last night and it mostly dealt with Tim Moore. It sounded like an exploratory call to see how we felt about voting for him for Congress or Governor.
He’s taking credit for passing the bill to make sure transgender students don’t play on girls sports teams.
Let out an expletive upon hearing that. The pollster hit more than she was asking for. ? Bullshit. He had to be shamed into allowing the bill to move forward , with his arm twisted behind his back.
Does this make you more likely to vote for him, less likely to vote for him, does it change your mind at all?
Answer. I wouldn’t vote for Tim Moore if he was holding a gun to my head.. How’s that for an answer?
Run, Tim, Run! Can’t wait to heckle you at every campaign stop.