Quick Hits

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on March 3, 2009 - 9:27am.
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* Bill would create a study commission on licensing and regulating midwives. The state currently only allows nurse midwives with degrees.

* Greensboro blogger Ed Cone notices that U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has finally upgraded her official Senate Web site, something he's been pushing for a while.

* A bill to ban cell phone use while driving appears dead after members of the Senate Commerce Committee appear particularly unenthused about it.

* House Health Committee is expected to consider a bill that would ban smoking in restaurants and public places in a meeting today.

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Re: Quick Hits

Submitted by CitizenOpinionated on March 3, 2009 - 3:19pm.

Hagan spokesman David Hoffman tells Shenan, hey, wait a sec. She’s just doing her job. “We’re simply announcing funding in North Carolina that main municipalities have been waiting on,” he defends.

“A large part of Sen. Hagan’s job as a U.S. senator is keeping folks informed.” And he does note that they do give Dole credit.

OH REALLY SENATOR HAGAN - THEN HOW COME YOU ISSUED A PRESSER YESTERDAY ANNOUNCING THE AFGHANISTAN DEPLOYMENT OF 17,000, WHEN TEAM OBAMA DID SO ON FEBRUARY 17,2009.

How come your office has no stance on the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, yet you are claiming credit for the grants it might produce?

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Re: Quick Hits

Submitted by CitizenOpinionated on March 3, 2009 - 3:16pm.

March 03, 2009
Categories: Antics
Shenanigans: Hagan hitches ride on omnibus

Sen. Kay Hagan replaced Elizabeth Dole in the Senate, but that hasn’t stopped her from trying to take some credit for Dole’s past doings, anti-Haganites say.

Hagan sent out a release last week boasting about the omnibus bill:

“HAGAN ANNOUNCES $5.2 MILLION IN FUNDING TO HELP PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK, EXPAND ACCESS TO EDUCATION.”

More: “U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (D-N.C.) announced today North Carolina will receive more than $5.2 million in funding as part of the 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which is expected to be voted on next week.”

She’s super-duper excited about all the “funds [that] will create jobs, expand access to education, provide hardworking North Carolinians with greater access to affordable housing, strengthen our infrastructure and keep our communities safe. There are nearly 397,000 North Carolinians out of work right now, and as we work hard to get our economy back on track, many of these projects will help spur the economic growth we need.”

That’s funny. It’s nice that she’s excited about money that’s coming to her state, but she clearly had nothing to do with that money.

Luckily, there’s a short sentence — which is the best line in the whole thing — where she does admit: “The funds were requested for 13 projects across North Carolina by former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.”

One North Carolina GOP-er scoffs: “In this new era of transparency, at least Hagan acknowledges that she had nothing whatsoever to do with securing the funding and that it hasn’t even passed yet — not that that would get in the way of trying to take credit for it.”

Hagan spokesman David Hoffman tells Shenan, hey, wait a sec. She’s just doing her job. “We’re simply announcing funding in North Carolina that main municipalities have been waiting on,” he defends.

“A large part of Sen. Hagan’s job as a U.S. senator is keeping folks informed.” And he does note that they do give Dole credit.

Quotable:

“It is time for Mr. Liddy to come back from whatever planet he is on and visit us here in reality

Just thought it was interesting...

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