It will very likely speed up now that the Republicans are about to blow up the state.
Ha, you mean what their doing at the state level? I haven't been following it much, but what from I hear is that they're actually doing pretty ridiculous things that could have an affect on the 2014 Senate seat which as of now is considered a Toss-Up. I'll check the other thread to see what's actually going on.
That is only because the State House Speaker is the most likely GOP Candidate at this point. Obviously, you pick the guy who runs the joint, then he will have to defend his actions instead of putting the attention on Hagan. Hence why I want someone else.
North Carolina was run by conservative Democrats. They are equivalent to moderate Republicans in many other states. That's why the state has things like right to work law.
They were just as in bed with the teacher's unions, the trial lawyers and the other typical Democratic interest groups. It is just that they had to keep up their numbers with rural whites so you got people like John Edwards and Mike Easley as the disingenuous face of a corrupt and at heart liberal party that was praying every day for a demographic shift to releive them of needing all those "gun toting hicks", so they could then be who they really are. You have to remember both Charlotte and Raleigh had Republican mayors in the 1990's, Wake County was a Republican county as recently as 2004 and Mecklenburg was as recently as the 1990's as well, so it was rural populism or death for the Democrats.
It will very likely speed up now that the Republicans are about to blow up the state.
It will very likely speed up now that the Republicans are about to blow up the state.
Ha, you mean what their doing at the state level? I haven't been following it much, but what from I hear is that they're actually doing pretty ridiculous things that could have an affect on the 2014 Senate seat which as of now is considered a Toss-Up. I'll check the other thread to see what's actually going on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/opinion/the-decline-of-north-carolina.html?_r=1&
As I said in another thread nobody felt the benefits of this "alleged progressive paradise". Education was "okay" as long as you were going to NC State, Duke, UNC or WFU (Sorry Duke
), at least that was my experience as one of those lucky SOBs (though I haven't exactly cashed in the second half of that statement yet). The rest got crapped on year after year. DOT was a mess, the tax code drove business away and their corrupt and bungled incentives package sent good money down the drain. Meanwhile our nightly news was constantly graced with a string of scandals from Democratic politicians going all the way back to 2004.
There is no priceless porcelain statue that we all adore here in NC that McCrory, Tillis and Berger took a sledge hammer too. What is destroying NC's reputation is the partisan hackjobs in these papers trying to exaggerate the wonders of the state before to make some case for a "decline". It is hard to go down further than hell hole.
The legislature has made a lot of mistakes. They haven't been in a power for a long time here and that is to be expected. They also have a lot of loose canons who don't really don't much about governing but love to get attention for themselves at the expense of the party. It also doesn't help that we have a war between the the leaders of each chamber as they have dragged out the tax code reform and budget negotiations, and not to mention this abortion football, as a means to position themselves against the others in the GOP Senate primary.
I didn't like them abrubtly cutting off UI, but I also object to getting it all at the expense of business and thus continuing the same approach to business taxation that helped to ruin the state's economy. I don't like that they put us in a district with Wilmington or that they screwed over Heath Shuler the way they did.
