* N.C. Change to Win head Willie Carey takes exception to a Dome item, says the AFL-CIO endorsed Sen. Kay Hagan before she backed card check.
* NoMoreGillNets.org has a billboard on Interstate 40 calling lack of wildlife enforcement on gill nets "another black eye for N.C. politics."
* Rep. Pricey Harrison introduces bill that would ban N.C. power companies from buying coal obtained via mountaintop mining in other states.
* Charlotte Observer columnist Jack Betts says the smoking ban has a good chance of passing, notes Rep. Marian McLawhorn is now in favor.
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Willie Carey takes exception
Carey is right to take exception - by standing with North Carolina workers Hagan made herself a national target.
Union "avoidance" experts working at Home Depot, Bank of America, and AIG organized an international conferance call with Bernie Marcus and Rick Berman (notorious corporate shills) to defeat candidates who would support workers.
On the call Bernie Marcus said: If a CEO has not gotten involved in this, if he has not spent money on this election, if he has not sent money to Norm Coleman and Elizabeth Dole and all these other guys, they should be shot. They should be thrown out their goddamn jobs.
More info and full audio: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/bank-of-america-hosted-an_n_161248.html