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Gem-Doomed Burningtown
City: Burningtown, North Carolina
Population: 8,000
Controls: Not even itself.
Government: Squatters
Problem: Unrest
Heroic Opportunity: Trade Goods
City Aspect: Red in tooth and claw.
Continue reading Gem-Doomed Burningtown [The Day After Ragnarok]
Found here. Short version: the courts tossed yet another challenge to Voter ID laws, this time in North Carolina. You’d think that the Left would get bored with this, but apparently not.
Via Hot Air comes this refreshing bucket of icy sea water on Democratic fever dreams: “Former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan will not be mounting a challenge to her former GOP colleague, Sen. Richard M. Burr.” Not surprising that Hagan bowed out though, really. It is not the easiest thing in the world for a former Senator who was tossed out of office to come back and win a new election, particularly when it is against an incumbent.
Alas for the Democratic party, recruiting people who have intimately known the bitter lash of electoral defeat is the lynchpin of their 2016 Senate strategy. Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania… shoot, the next Democratic nominee for FL-SEN might very well be Alan Grayson, who rather famously got smacked down in 2010, to the point where he had to go running to a safer district. A lot of retreads, in other words. A lot of retreads. Which is fine if you think that the electorate is regretting its previous decisions; but what if they’re not?
Moe Lane
I understand why Reason is a little upset, here:
…but, hey, it’s the two-party system, folks. Besides, let’s face it: it is a little weird that a Libertarian candidate hates the idea of libertarian-friendly people spending money in elections. Sounds like Sean Haugh is probably a Libertarian only because the Democrats already had a candidate.
But he is the pro-pot, antiwar candidate.
This is almost impressive.
JDC Manufacturing, a company co-owned by Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s husband Charles “Chip” Hagan, lowered the total cost of a 2010 stimulus-funded energy project…
Yeah, let me interrupt this, really quickly: turns out that Kay Hagan is materially profiting from that trillion-dollar raid on the Treasury that the Democrats staged in 2009. Like you do. Or, more accurately, like cash-obsessed Democratic Senators do when the money is just sitting there, right out in the open.
…but kept all of the savings, sending none back to taxpayers who had funded the stimulus grant.
The company’s original application stated the total project would cost $438,627, and said JDC would contribute “leveraged funds” amounting to $187,983, or 43 percent of the total. As the project reached completion, however, JDC revised the total budget downward by $114,519 and applied all the savings to its share, keeping all the taxpayer funding.
Continue reading Sen. Kay Hagan (D, NC) shows us how to pocket $115K of taxpayer money! YOUR money!
Oh, yeah, like anybody else is going to couch this anything except favorable partisan terms, either.
The Supreme Court, with two Justices noting dissents, on Wednesday afternoon allowed North Carolina to bar voters from registering and casting their ballots on the same day, and to refuse to count votes that were cast in the wrong polling places. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. The majority did not explain its action.
The order gives the state time to file an appeal from lower-court rulings striking down those two provisions, which were part of a larger, sweeping change in voting rights in the state. If the Court grants review of the state’s appeal, the postponement will remain in effect until there is a decision.
There’s a reason why NC-02 is rated Safe Republican these days, and here it is:
What fresh hell is this? http://t.co/z1HU1EL0xd pic.twitter.com/qtnXulTvWS
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) October 6, 2014
When your campaign signs demonstrate that your overall strategy is to explicitly confuse potential voters about your political party affiliation, your campaign is pretty much over. Renee Ellmers is going to beat Clay Aiken, and Aiken is unlikely to be gracious about it. He’ll be amusingly ungracious about it, though. Which should be fun!
Moe Lane
The funny part about this LA Times article is that the article was in full apology mode for Barack Obama. Which makes this… the best that they can do about Obama’s travails in North Carolina (and, more importantly, Kay Hagan’s):
… it’s not difficult to find evidence of Obama’s sunken stature here. After month of news about the troubled rollout of the Affordable Care Act, it is easy to find conservative Democrats who bemoan the core of the law — the individual insurance mandate — and it is even easier to find Obama supporters quick to express disbelief that the president botched his signature law.
“They bungled it! They bungled it! They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory!” said Erv Portman, owner of an airplane parts manufacturer in Apex, who welcomed Obama to his plant in 2011.
Ouch. Of course, it couldn’t happen to a nicer political party, bless their hearts.
Carolyn “I’m blaming my lung cancer on my father being around asbestos and not my pack-a-day habit?” McCarthy? Carolyn “I used Heath Shuler’s money-laundering-for-lobbyists scheme” McCarthy? Carolyn “PMA Porker” McCarthy?
Ayup. Announced it at the same time as McIntyre. My response?
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Continue reading Mike McIntyre cuts and ru… what’s that? CAROLYN MCCARTHY (D, NY-04) is out?
Normally I don’t give props to non-Republicans (David Waddell is going to run on the Constitutional ticket against Kay Hagan*), but I will stretch a rule because, well, he wrote his resignation letter in Klingon:
Continue reading North Carolina Councilman resigns… in Klingon.