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Re: SEANC airs two more ads

troubled — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:27:28 -0400

Good for you SEANC. I would add my vote to making both Representatives Holliman and Gibson "priors"......
Neither has any intention of any kind of serious
reform to the state annexation law.
They don't care about the little old ladies that will lose their homes. They don't care about the children and families that do not have insurance now because times are so bad.
They don't care about the children wanting to go to college and
their parents not being able to afford it.
They don't care that the Chappell's family farm near Rocky Mount will have to be sold because they cannot pay for the main water and sewer lines that this annexation will allow the city to run around their property at a cost to the Chappells of $217,000.00. This the Chappells will be forced to pay, even though they don't need water and sewer.
They don't care that Mr. Chappell is fighting cancer also.
They only care about staying in good standing with The League and being informed by The League. before the session is even over, that they can continue with the annexations in their districts.
They only care about allowing cities like Charlotte to have bragging rights about being among the fastest growing cities in the nation.
Charlotte's own Chamber of Commerce said that Charlotte didn't really grow, they just annexed.

Re: Recent House bills

tangoz — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:30:39 -0400

Those anti-life Democrats are trying to stop the Pro Life and NRA license plates.

Re: Recent House bills

ncpoli — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:16:28 -0400

Does anyone have background infor on H677? Why eliminate specialty plates? Beyond making our state look completely boring, don't some of the procedes from those plates go to charity? I'm sure the Democrats who sponsored this bill aren't anti-charity, are they?

Is it just me?

Gosh — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:33:55 -0500

Or is a "Raleigh SkyScraper" a really, really poor choice for...uh...a choice meeting?

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

mbrock49 — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:03:08 -0400

Congratulations to my member of the House from Cary, Jennifer Wiess. She is just a good, all around clean politico. She takes her job as Representive of the people seriously, and she is responsible in her fund-raising tactics. Good job, Jennifer.

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

meschreiner — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:17:28 -0400

>NEVER meant to be a 'democracy'...in fact the word does NOT appear in the Constitution!

Not true.
This nation is a republic in a democracy.
The U.S. Constitution didn't need the word "democracy" -- from the Greek for demokratia, from 'demos' "common people," + 'kratos' "rule, strength" -- to be democratic, since it was ordained and established by "We the people."

If we're going to list all the words not in the Constitution, we're going to be here all day.

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

FFC1304 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:37:46 -0400

Its MY way of HONORING the 'ORIGINAL' 'party' of SLAVERY, as they continue to ENSLAVE us daily.

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

dahedgehog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:24:40 -0400

Congrats to those members on the list. Despite FFC's notions, there are some good people in Raleigh on both sides. Many of them are listed above.

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

Isaac136 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:10:45 -0400

Yeah, FFC, speaking of "KKK," I guess you're among those hoping we'll never see another politician exploit bigotry and be praised and rewarded and honored for it in North Carolina.

Hmmm? Of course.

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:11:21 -0400

An earlier version inadvertently left out Cotham.

— RTB

Re: 21 legislators praised for disclosure

FFC1304 — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:58:12 -0400

Yeah, but its that remaining 2% of questionable donors who get somehow left out or covered up...

Did Les Merritt run an audit for 'democracy NC' for these 'honors'?

'democracy NC' needs to realize we were NEVER meant to be a 'democracy'...in fact the word does NOT appear in the Constitution!

why does everyone scream 'democracy' in NC when its clearly NOT, especially after 100+ years of democrackkk rule.

Re: Perdue receives tech award

liam — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:26:09 -0500

Bev Perdue wins award from lobbyists. Lobbyist love Bev Perdue and contribute heavily to her campaign... in other news the sun rose this morning...

Really, I know this is a blog, but do you have to reprint press releases verbatim?

We?

Anglico — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:17:04 -0500

I'm not sure about "we" but I see a gigantic public health crisis building around obesity. It's a better use of funds than giving $43 million to tire manufacturers.

Re: Perdue receives tech award

dahedgehog — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:26:48 -0500

Online fitness training? Do we really think online fitness training is an important use of state funds?