Gary Pearce and Carter Wrenn agree that Joe Sinsheimer has become a force to be reckoned with in Raleigh.
Pearce, a Democrat, and Wrenn, a Republican, sang Sinsheimer's praises in separate posts this week on their shared blog.
Pearce started things by writing that "Joe (the Sledgehammer) Sinsheimer may be the most powerful person in Raleigh today."
Last year, Sinsheimer had the guts to take on Jim Black when no one else would. For his trouble, Joe got trashed by the Democratic establishment. Democrats suggested darkly that Joe was being paid by Black's enemies.
Then Joe turned out to be right: Black was a crook.
Then Wrenn wrote that Sinsheimer is "the most feared name in Democratic politics today."
There's no substitute for good research and Mr. Sinsheimer's carving out a niche all his own. His particular bone of contention is corruption. How effective is he? Ask Jim Black, Rep. Thomas Wright and Rep. Mary McAllister. All are involved in scandals Sinsheimer's exposed. He's a one-man clean-up government crusade."
Comments
Re: A new sheriff in town?
August 13, 2007 - 9:06am — chucktIf it had not been for Joe Sinshiemer NONE od the corruption in Raleigh would have never seen the light of day. It's time for him to look at the SENATE leadership now.
Re: A new sheriff in town?
August 12, 2007 - 3:39am — FFC1304Joe Sinshiemer RULES!!! He should be further honored for all his efforts!
100+ years of democrackkk oppression in NC is quite enough! If you are a citizen who continues to vote for nasty NC democrackkks then YOU are a traitor to our once great state!
Re: A new sheriff in town?
August 10, 2007 - 1:41pm — ProctorWow, the Jim-Black-Must-Go guy has really racked up the honors! First, he gets a free speech award from the North Carolina Press Association and now he has won kudos from Mssrs. Pearce and Wreen.
Never mind that the rank-and-file North Carolinian can now begin to recognize, through court transcripts and other documents, that all these "pile-on charges" against Jim Black--the ones added to the actual campaign law violation involving the transfer of unreported funds from a chiropractors group--have simply not been substantiated.
And here's something else for the Raleigh Punditry Society to crow about: even though the campaign funds violation took place at an International House of Pancakes in Salisbury, a Wake County judge is forcing Dr. Black to come up with $1 million--with all of it being directed to the Wake County schools and none of it to the Rowan County schools. You don't have to be from the Piedmont to see the impropriety of this million-dollar diversion scheme, for you can see that whether you're right next door in Johnston County or just up the road in Nash or Edgecombe counties, this whole "penalty" is giving Wake schools a $1 million advantage over the school districts in the all the other 99 counties of North Carolina. Would the Wake school offices like maple or raspberry syrup with this sumptuous political dish?
The N&O always spotlights the people making the accusations, whether they have the facts on their side or not. There's never a piece on the folks who try to come to someone's defense if they feel that individual has been unjustly accused. Et tu, Brutus, "The News & Accuser?"