Liberals Inundate North Carolina with Campaign Ads

Does anyone remember the not too distant past when progressives lamented the influence of money in our electoral process?  I mean, the very people who bemoaned this untoward practice of outsiders meddling into local campaigns are the same ones funneling money as a means to influence policy in another state.  What a bunch of hypocrites!

North Carolina is a veritable battleground state.  Interest groups from all over the country have decided to put their two cents plus a couple of million dollars into our gubernatorial race.  Most of this money is from liberal organizations.  Here is an excerpt from the News and Observer: 

An estimated $3.7 million from 11 groups has been spent on TV ads highlighting the environment, economy and House Bill 2’s LGBT rights controversy. The center reports the money is coming from the national governors associations, Americans for Prosperity and a North Carolina coalition of environmental groups.

To date, no other state-level race has drawn as many outside spenders.

Candidates, political parties and outside organizations have spent more than $53 million on state-level broadcast TV ads nationally, the Center reports. Outside spending accounts for almost 40 percent of that.

You have to read the front groups that proclaim they’re from North Carolina.  Some of this is truly hilarious such as the N.C. Waste Awareness & Reduction Network which is funded by Ben & Jerry’s Foundation; the rock group Crosby, Stills & Nash and a bunch of weirdoes from a nonprofit called the Guacamole Fund.

This is going to be a long, painful election season.

Source:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article87596787.html

Attorney General Roy Cooper Announces Run for Governor of North Carolina

It should be no surprise to anyone who pays attention that Attorney General Roy Cooper announced he is planning to run for governor of North Carolina in 2016.  This man has continuously used the public office as a platform for his own personal ambition.

A couple of years ago, Mr. Cooper refused to protect the citizens of North Carolina from a federal government overreach known as Obamacare.  Here is his reasoning:

"This office should not attempt to enforce state legislation that clearly violates federal law," Cooper said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Another issue is unintended consequences. While it is unenforceable as to federal law, it could be enforceable as to existing state law."


"State legislatures cannot pick and choose which federal laws the state will obey," Cooper wrote to Perdue, pointing to federal rules requiring body scans of pat downs at airports about which many North Carolina residents complain. "The same principle applies here as with other federal laws, even those laws we don't like or agree with.

Well, Attorney General Cooper, why don’t you ask the citizens about the rate increases that are sending shock waves throughout our state?   Here are a couple of people who will not agree with the federal law you refused to fight against:

Across North Carolina, thousands of people have been shocked in recent weeks to find out their health insurance plans will be canceled at the end of the year – and premiums for comparable coverage could increase sharply.

One of them is George Schwab of Charlotte, who pays $228 a month for his family’s $10,000 deductible plan from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

In a Sept. 23 letter, Blue Cross notified him that his current plan doesn’t meet benefit requirements outlined in the Affordable Care Act and suggested a comparable plan for $1,208 a month – $980 more than he now pays.

“I’m 62 and retired,” Schwab said. “This creates a tremendous financial burden for our family.

“The President told the American people numerous times that… ‘If you like your coverage, you can keep it,’” Schwab said. “How can we keep it if it has been eliminated? How can we keep it if the premium has been increased 430 percent in one year?”

Schwab and others who purchase insurance individually, and not through employer-sponsored group plans, are finding that the Affordable Care Act may be unaffordable for their families.

Thanks Attorney General Roy Cooper.  Your progressive politics are working wonders for North Carolinians.

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/06/4365331/insurance-premium-increases-shock.html#.UlGBZlBJO7N#storylink=cpy

 http://www.news-record.com/news/article_1bf76a7c-2df8-11e3-bf6b-001a4bcf6878.html

http://costonscomplaint.blogspot.com/2011/02/north-carolina-ag-roy-cooper-turns-his.html

Charlotte Observer Editors Throw Themselves at Erskine Bowles

How low can the editors of the Charlotte Observer go? Let’s just say, I hope they are wearing kneepads and have a box of Kleenex nearby.

We all know the Disturber prostitutes themselves to every progressive (socialist) politician and theory that happens to belly up to the bar. But their latest editorial -- if you wish to call it that -- is a combination plea and love letter to failed politician: Erskine Bowles.

Dear Erskine,

We hear you're thinking hard about whether to run for governor of North Carolina.

We fully understand your ambivalence. Politics is a snake pit, and you might think you have better things to do than subject yourself to that venom. You've run for the U.S. Senate twice in North Carolina and lost both times, and you were subjected to negative advertising that attacked your reputation. Besides, you are 66, you've been working hard for more than four decades, and you've earned a little downtime with your kids and grandkids.

We also understand the tug you're feeling. That tug to public service. A calling, instilled in you since you were a boy, of using your talents to give back to the community. We know that as a Greensboro native who has spent much of his life in North Carolina, you love this state, and leading it to its potential is a high calling indeed.

Think about what North Carolina needs right now, and whether your strengths and experience prepare you to tackle those needs

If I were Erskine Bowles, I would think this prostitute was infested with a venereal disease. Better yet, a restraining order maybe needed to keep this potential stalker at bay.

But it gets even weirder than that. The Disturbers reverence for Erskine Bowles has developed into a religious aspect:

You spent decades in private business. You led the Small Business Administration. You were the White House Chief of Staff, and as a Democrat worked with Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich to produce the last balanced budget America has seen. You were the president of the UNC system. You co-chaired a national deficit panel, the Bowles-Simpson commission, that was unafraid to both raise taxes and cut spending, angering partisans on all sides.

Even if you run, we don't know yet who will emerge as the strongest candidate for governor. It's a long campaign. But that campaign should offer voters strong choices and candidates who can raise the level of discourse.

Religious or not, many people of great talent feel the admonition from the gospel of Luke: To whom much is given, much shall be required. In momentous times, people of great talent step up to serve.

Can you imagine the fawning press Erskine Bowles would get from this paper? It would be a daily love letter to a politician that North Carolinians have rejected time after time.

Get a room Disturber!

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/02/01/2974533/to-erskine-bowles-from-us-subject.html#storylink=cpy