Christensen: The political optics were terrible.
Last week, the Republican legislature convened a post-midnight special session for the sole purpose of gut-punching one of their foes - the N.C. Association of Educators. It was possibly the strangest political gambit since Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers fled to Illinois to prevent the Republican majority from passing anti-union legislation.
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Look a little closer to home
January 11, 2012 - 10:49am — BurlHarleyChicago you say? These seem like standard NC politics to me. Yes, I must say this is nothing more than political gamesmanship and sly tricks, but you must ask yourself a question - where did these "tricksters" learn their games? Well, I believe it was the original tricksters themselves, the backroom-dealing democrats of the past 100 years.
When Democs use it....
January 8, 2012 - 5:45pm — AgentPierceinan.... sillyboy, when Rob's Democ pals do "it" he applauds their "political gamesmanship".
Rob has perfected "situational ethics" to an artform in his journo-sniping. Remember he thought Reille was simply comforting John in his concern for Elizabeth's health.
Chicago-style politics. Isn't that a good thing?
January 8, 2012 - 1:27pm — inandohI would think the Democrats would be proud of Chicago-style politics. Aren't Chicago-style politics a Democratic invention? Or is it that the Republicans are not allowed to use Chicago-style politics? Is there a patent on them? Do the Republicans need to pay an ASCAP fee or something? If the Republicans violated some law against using Chicago-style politics without a license then they should be made to pay damages to the Democrats! Fair is fair!