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The New York Times reports that three members of North Carolina’s Congressional delegation are among the 40 members of the House being bombarded with ads by both sides as a final vote on health care reform approaches. Representatives Bobby Etheridge, Larry Kissell, and Mike McIntyre have all been singled out for special attention. Etheridge had the [...]...
The Progressive Pulse - 5:22 a.m.
It's an open thread! Pleeeeease feel free to chat, blogwhore , and link-share in the comment thread... So, this is what my cartoon sockpuppet Bookworm Bob have been looking at since our last Monday Morning This & That post. • For those who don't remember, Fort Wayne Indiana had a vote recently where the City Council decided not to allow the introduction of a bill that would ha...
Pam's House Blend - 4:27 a.m.
FLASH: 5th District Congressional candidate Billy Kennedy will attend Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's townhall event tomorrow morning in Statesville. ...
BlueNC - Sun 6:49 p.m. - 4 clicks 
All of our shaming of Virginia Foxx for being afraid to face the people in an open setting has finally paid off: The representative is holding a "Health Care Solutions Town Hall" in Statesville tomorrow morning at 11:30 a.m. (Statesville Civic Center, Room B, 300 South Center Street). 11:30 a.m. ? Doesn't seem like a time that might optimize attendance by working people. Just sayin'. It's also...
WataugaWatch - Sun 5:08 p.m. - 3 clicks
Why wait for the voters to decide, when you can vote them out with a piece of paper : The Americans for Prosperity drafted a resolution calling for the resignation of all five Onslow County commissioners, who are Republican. The resolution claims commissioners have raised taxes, which is against the party platform, and attempted to suppress free speech about the issue at meetings. AFP Presi...
BlueNC - Sun 10:23 a.m. - 4 clicks
In an e-mail to supporters, Dr. Shilpen Patel, Co-chair of the Board of Directors for Equal Rights Washington announced that Josh Friedes will be the new Executive Director of Equal Rights Washington. Full disclosure, Josh is a friend of mine. We worked closely together on the Washington Families Standing Together to Approve Referendum 71 campaign that brought the historic expansion of L...
Pam's House Blend - Sat 12:42 p.m. - 3 clicks
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters To say that Family Research Council head Tony Perkins isn't happy about the fact that gays and lesbians can marry in Washington, D.C. should be considered a huge understatement. He makes this incredibly ridiculous statement about the marriages: The last census counted 3,678 same-sex partner homes in D.C. Assuming th...
Pam's House Blend - Sat 7:22 a.m. - 4 clicks
The Wake County Public School System isn’t the only district making news this week. NPR’s Morning Edition examined the charges of “re-segregation” in Wayne County schools today in a segment produced by WUNC’s Dave Dewitt. Share and Enjoy: ...
The Progressive Pulse - Fri 10:42 a.m. - 4 clicks
Here are some interesting items to peruse as you (hopefully) prepare to switch off the work brain and transition into a weekend of college hoops and/or cavorting in the springtime weather: Paul Krugman has a pragmatic, common sense take on the health care reform debate that debunks some of the latest wing-nut mythology. Next week’s NC Policy [...]...
The Progressive Pulse - Fri 9:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
It hasn’t taken a rocket scientist to see what Wake County school board chair Ron Margiotta has been trying to orchestrate for a long time. Yesterday, he once again confirmed it in just the place where one would expect to have the chair of the supposedly non-partisan school board announce his plans – the Northern [...]...
The Progressive Pulse - Fri 6:49 a.m. - 5 clicks
A couple weeks ago I posted that Orange County was starting an oyster shell recycling program. Well today it looks like a federal grant will offer fisherman $2 a bushel to plant those shells on reefs off of North Carolina's coast. Basically the shells provide a great habitat for shellfish to spawn on and grow. If your not aware oysters have had it rough over the last 100 years. Some reports e...
North Carolina Sierra Club - Thu 4:20 p.m. - 2 clicks
Congresswoman Virginia Foxx has made a spectacle of herself slobbering all over certain men in Washington. There was the famous lip assault on George W. Bush , the fawning failure to detect any illegal drug use from a perusal of Roger Clemens' blown-up photographs, and now it's Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan that Foxx has fixated on with unhealthy affection. Why? Because Ryan has written ...
WataugaWatch - Thu 8:25 a.m. - 3 clicks
There was a good article in the Business Journal last week that focused on the future of solar energy in North Carolina. Whether your considering residential installation or commericial there are a number of tax incentives to bring down the cost. The NC Solar Center has a great break down on federal incentives, it looks like you can cut the cost by 65% when you factor in the tax credits. M...
North Carolina Sierra Club - Wed 10:42 p.m. - 6 clicks
Jack Hawke, the infamous NC Republican operative, has bragged that he's the one who "recruited" Virginia Foxx to run for the NC Senate in 1994. He apparently has, in other words, a fatal attraction for the extreme and the unstable, because he also signed on for the Tim D'Annunzio primary campaign down in the NC-8. D'Annunzio went from zero to 60 on the nut-job scale in just under three second...
WataugaWatch - Wed 8:41 a.m. - 5 clicks
“Neither shalt thou steal.” Obviously, the good pastor heading up Raleigh’s Christian Action League forgot that morsel of divine revelation when he disregarded my publisher’s copyright notice on the bottom of our website and in the pub box of our print edition and copied and pasted my Feb. 20 Editor’s Note from QNotes into his March [...]...
IntersateQ.com - Tue 9:21 p.m. - 4 clicks
National Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele was in Greensboro yesterday and announced that North Carolina will be his come fall -- "Mine, MINE, I tell you!" -- and forever after. Apparently, come November 3, we North Carolinians will awake from our frightful nightmare to find ourselves wrapped in the sweet embrace of reactionary right-wingism, breathing in the miasma of obstructionism t...
WataugaWatch - Tue 8:26 a.m. - 6 clicks
Keith Gardner, the hapless Republican primary challenger to Virginia Foxx, is a walking example of cognitive dissonance . He said on GoBlueRidge about Foxx, "She's well known, she's well liked in most of the district. In fact, I like her. However, she's a professional politician. I do not like the idea of a professional politician." I like her, but I do not like what she is. Well, it's a s...
WataugaWatch - Mar 7 - 9 clicks
...Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who for years has made "choking up" in public a regular feature of her political persona. Another bravura performance on Saturday at the Watauga County Republican Convention . You'll have to read all the way to the end to get it. ...
WataugaWatch - Mar 7 - 9 clicks
Mr. Bumble's philosophy in "Oliver Twist" is to keep the boys and girls in the workhouse hungry. He thinks they work more efficiently on empty stomachs. Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's philosophy is that the School Lunch Program is a shocking expenditure and has no place in America. Yesterday Foxx was one of only 13 Republican members of the U.S. Congress to vote against H Res 362 . Foxx was al...
WataugaWatch - Mar 5 - 6 clicks
The following was written by Van Crandall an active member of the NC Sierra Club. It's an important subject that hopefully draws the attention of state and local officials across North Carolina. Many residents of NC municipalities are getting hammered by high electricity bills, resulting from investment decisions that were made almost 3 decades ago into centralized power-plants (largely nucl...
North Carolina Sierra Club - Mar 4 - 4 clicks
I just wanted to give everyone an update on our upcoming outings. This weekend the Club has 3 events, so if your interested in joining the Sierra Club or want some outdoor recreation come join us. The first event is this Saturday the 6th and is located about an hr away from Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The group will meet at the Hanging Rock trailhead at 12:30PM for a moderate to strenuo...
North Carolina Sierra Club - Mar 4 - 5 clicks
On Feb. 25, I was honored to participate in a forum with North Carolina businessman and Faith in America founder Mitchell Gold and Faith in America executive director Brent Childers at a small gay bar/lounge here in Charlotte. Usually, politics and religion don’t go well with bars, but it was a great and attentive crowd [...]...
IntersateQ.com - Mar 4 - 6 clicks
We got an e-mailed press release last night from one of Congressman Patrick McHenry's three primary challengers that apparently agreed with our characterization of the congressman's tone-deafness for introducing a bill to put Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill. Here 'tis in its entirety: Morganton, NC -- Vance Patterson , 10th District Republican candidate for Congress, says incumbent Patrick McHen...
WataugaWatch - Mar 4 - 7 clicks
State Board Meeting Agenda March 4, 2010 NOTICE OF MEETING The State Board of Elections will meet in its boardroom located at 506 N. Harrington St., Raleigh, N.C. on March 4, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. For further information on this meeting please call (919) 715-5333. TENTATIVE AGENDA Call to order Minutes approval Appointing ...
Stop The NC Home Ticks - Mar 3 - 2 clicks
Congressman Heath Shuler's Democratic primary opponent, Aixa Woods, is hobbled by more than a first name nobody wants to take a stab at pronouncing out loud and in public: he's a total political neophyte who confesses , "I don't know much about the Democratic Party. I'm sure I will find out. I don't know what resistance I will get from the powers that be." Allow me to enlighten you: Familiar wit...
WataugaWatch - Mar 3 - 4 clicks
Congressman Patty McHenry (R), from nearby Tiny Town, has finally noticed the economic collapse happening all around him -- actually, the economic collapse has been happening in his Congressional district for several years now -- and has found the magic bullet : put Ronald Reagan's mug on the $50 bill. That will involve, of course, booting Ulysses S. Grant off the $50 bill, but we're down w...
WataugaWatch - Mar 3 - 6 clicks
Senator Lindsey Graham was quoted this week saying that a new climate and energy proposal will be released "hopefully in the next couple weeks." The new plan will not install a comprehensive cap and trade program over all industries. Instead the legislation will take steps to incorporate different industries over a longer period of time. Power plants would be the first industry to face a cap on e...
North Carolina Sierra Club - Mar 2 - 4 clicks
We've had some coverage here (a tad) about Congressman Patty McHenry in the NC-10 and about his two (D'OH! now three ) primary challengers, but perhaps we should do a little catching up with the two Democrats in the May 4 primary, vying to take on McHenry come November. One is Anne N. Fischer of Morganton. She has an active website up and running, is described as a social worker and community ...
WataugaWatch - Mar 2 - 8 clicks
With Sen. David Hoyle finally out of the picture, Republicans were expecting to easily take the open Senate seat in Gaston County. For years, GOP leaders have coveted the seat, chafed that Hoyle, a Democrat, has held on to a solid Republican district through his ties to the community and the thickness of his campaign checkbook. So when Hoyle announced last fall that he wouldn't run, Republicans ...
Andrew Jackson Democrats - Mar 2 - 2 clicks
The Kenneth Lewis campaign for Senate sent out a press release today accusing of us writing biased commentary against his campaign because we did a poll for Elaine Marshall more than three months ago and because my boss made a contribution to Cal Cunningham. This is about the millionth time we've been accused of bias for something or other in our history, it's just as baseless as all the other acc...
Andrew Jackson Democrats - Mar 1 - 4 clicks
GREENSBORO — A lawsuit between seven hydroelectric plants and the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority could help clarify North Carolina law for generations to come. Experts say North Carolina is open to such conflicts because its water laws are relatively unrefined, with gaps between rules governing private use of streams for profit and those controlling public reservoirs, known as impoundmen...
Andrew Jackson Democrats - Mar 1 - 4 clicks
At The Jacksonian, we pride ourselves at covering politics in a non-partisan manner. Today we expand on this coverage by including events for our right-leaning friends. If you have an event in North Carolina to add to our calendar, please email it to us at andrewjacksondem@gmail.com...
Andrew Jackson Democrats - Mar 1 - 4 clicks
