As the GOP rallies its troops, the state Democratic Party released its own web video Thursday casting Pat McCrory as a puppet of special interests.
In the two-minute video, a faux McCrory campaign staff sits around a boardroom table talking about the candidate's polling problem. Two suited men, one sipping a martini, lay under the table and give the Republican candidate advice. GOP financier and Democratic boogeyman Art Pope's name even makes a cameo, written on a white board behind the candidate: "Art Pope was here."
The video goes with a new website. The state Democratic Party also operates another negative site, therealmccrory.com.
On Thursday, a liberal advocacy group, Progress North Carolina Action, also released it's own website disparaging McCrory, harping on their continued theme of "Who Pays Pat?"-- an effort designed to get the Republican candidate to release his tax returns. The kicker: What does Pat McCrory do for a living? Your guess is as good as ours." Viewers can then take an amusing survey.
McCrory's campaign spokesman Brian Nick added this: "Pat McCrory is busy visiting businesses throughout the state talking about his plan to fix North Carolina's broken economy and broken government. Perhaps Walter Dalton and his allies would be running a better campaign if they weren't too busy making home movies and websites that are better suited for a student council race than a campaign for governor."
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Funny stuff
July 13, 2012 - 7:33pm — triangleresident"Art Pope was here" on the white board behind him. lol
on the money
July 13, 2012 - 3:59pm — mountainmanIt would absolutely be a continuation of Easley & Perdue if Wally Dalton becomes governor. More of the same corrupt buddy system, we as taxpayers have funded for the last 25 yrs. The paid bloggers that have posted below, are paid well to attack McCrory at every opportunity. They blast McCrory 24/7 on this blog with the same ole lame talking points, while trying to promote Wally Dalton as some kind of squeaky clean saint, who is the answer to all the problems in the state. BUT HERE IS A NEWS FLASH!!! If Dalton had the answers, why has he done absolutely nothing for the last four years as Lt Governor???? And If the Dems have all the answers, why don't we live in a perfect little state???? Since the democrats have controlled state government in North Carolina for the last 100 yrs?? We have had one democrat governor after another for 25 yrs uninterrupted, so why is the state in such a mess??? These attacks on McCrory are nothing more than a pathetic smear campaign, by a candidate that has absolutely no positive accomplishments to use as campaign material and the voters are not fooled!!!
Think about it. I have?
July 13, 2012 - 8:56am — inandoh"So does anyone really think Myers Park Pat will be a reformer if he is Governor?"
What choice do we have? Will Dalton reform the policies of Easley-Perdue-Dalton? Is that likely?
Wouldn't the voters have at least a chance that things would change under Myers Park Pat? Isn't electing Dalton in reality a continuation of Easley & Perdue? How could it be otherwise?
Think about it,
July 13, 2012 - 7:36am — WilmingtonDemocratThink about it, Progress/Duke ENergy is paying Bill Johnson $44 million and John McArthur $9 million to go away. John McArthur was a staffer for Mike Easley and before that a lobbyist.
SO just think how much Duke was paying Myers Park Pat when he was Mayor of Charlotte. Enough to live in Myers Park, the state's most exclusive neighborhood.
So does anyone really think Myers Park Pat will be a reformer if he is Governor? You would have to be drinking enough to be under the table with those lobbyists from Moore Van Allen in the video.
The Spitting Image of Pat McCrory
July 13, 2012 - 6:30am — MalleusMaleficarumPat McCrory got his comeuppance from his portrayal as a puppet for big corporations who are pulling his strings. Let's hope to see more of this humor in the weeks ahead. McCrory is a puppet and a parasite on the people and the body politic of North Carolina.
Myers Park Pat's fellow
July 12, 2012 - 7:58pm — WilmingtonDemocratMyers Park Pat's fellow lobbyists at Moore Van Allen, (one of Charlotte's biggest lobbying firms) sorta look like those guys under the table. I just wish Pat would tell us how much he and his fellow lobbyists make from representing the American Petroleum Institute?
I mean be real, Myers Park Pat spent 20 years working as a lobbyist for Duke Energy. The same DUke Energy that is paying CEO Bill Johnson $44 million dollars to go away at they same time they were raising our rates 9%.
Does anyone think the guy who paid for his Myers Park house by being in public affairs for Duke and then representing the American Petroleum Institue is going to be a reformer? THey would have to be drinking the same martinis as Pat's fellow lobbyists under the table.
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July 12, 2012 - 3:20pm — mountainmanIt is amazing to see how far the Dem party will stoop to smear a opponent. With all the corruption that has come from the Perdue and Easley administrations, and they think the voters can be convinced Wally Dalton is squeaky clean. If there is a puppet, you need not lot any further than Wally.