Names in the mix for U.S. attorney?

I am very pleased with your thought and I did not want to add anything to it. It's a perfect answer from my side.
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John Assam
attorney

Ripley Rand is an excellent trial judge. He lost his race against a well respected attorney who is also turning into an excellent trial judge.

I think this is an interesting list. Thanks.

jarrowood, I understand your reservations. But you also have to be competent to be Governor and look how close he came!

I wish I had a Daddy who was Majority Leader of the Senate and would place me in government jobs.! Cause Ripley sure couldn't get them on his own.

Gosh, the last time I checked you need to be an attorney to be U.S. Attorney

According to him, he'd be Governor now if not for that black guy!

to be fair and add just a tiny bit of balance to the totally CORRUPTED democrackkk RUINED state of NC?

Joe Cheshire?!?!?

Please.

Now Richard Moore, there's a good choice. It might keep him out of the Democratic primary for the Burr Senate seat in 2012.

Updated to include Cheshire.

— RTB 

Darn right, FFC1304. There are enough experienced attorneys who are Democrats qualified for the posts. Why on earth would Hagan appoint a Republican?

You can bet probably NONE of them are republicans!

Anyone associated with Tony Rand should be declared INeligible!

Good judge and prosecutor cannot win an election, even with the backing of the NC Eastern Democratic political machine?

Yes, Judge Rand is Tony Rand's son, but he's also a very good judge & was a very good prosecutor -- he's accomplished a lot in his own right.

How about state Treas. Richard Moore for the eastern? He is a former assistant U.S. attorney. And sadly, he is out of a job.

Hunt Gwynn of Union County

hope she doesn't follow strom thurmond's example. he had his son appoointed us attorney less than 5 years out of law school.

Oh I see Ripley Rand has received two Easley appointments. After he failed to win re-elect for his first appointed position, Easley appointed him to a second position.

Per Dome's profile on Tony Rand:
"Gov. Mike Easley named Ripley Rand to a roving state Superior Court judgeship last year after Rand lost an election to the Wake Superior Court bench, which Easley had also named him to."

Nah, not Hampton Dellinger, not right away. I could see him getting called up to DC to work in a DOJ post there for a few years, THEN come back and get the USA appointment in the CD (maybe in a 2nd Obama term).

Reposted to include Dellinger.

— RTB 

No, GrayJ. Tony will not be calling in a favor for his son. The machine is far too well oiled for that to be necessary.

Craver would be a good pick in the ED, but he apparently enjoys being in the legislature. I'd bet on Ben David -- and then he can get the Gov to appoint his twin brother to replace him.

Colon wouldn't take the CD job (it would be a demotion, really), and Ripley might be a bit young. He might get it, tho.

In the WD, I would bet on some criminal defense atty who raised a ton of money for the campaign.

My first reaction was the same about Rand's son. I can't help it but you just have to ask yourself would he at the age of 39 or younger be a Superior Court judge without connections. Same thing with one of Henson Barnes kinfolk becoming a judge several years ago.

These are just the names I heard, so there could be some selection bias as I talked to Raleigh-area folks.

— RTB 

I feel Mr. Rand might be calling in a favor for his son in the near future.

Also this complaint may seem nitpicky but every person you mentioned was either in Raleigh or further east. North Carolina has three federal districts, hopefully the appointed person resides in the territory they would be represent. I guess this just goes to show that eastern North Carolina controls our state political landscape, for reasons unknown to me.