Posted on 12/19/2011 2:03:11 PM PST by cblue55
Staffers working for the Democratic governor of swing-state North Carolina have been using embargoed federal data for political advantage, putting state employees at risk of jail time, according to emails uncovered by the free-market John Locke Foundation.
Republicans jumped on the news to demand explanations from embattled Gov. Beverly Purdue, whose declining poll ratings may stymie President Barack Obama’s campaign to win the state’s crucial 15 electoral votes in November 2012.
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A common misconception.
Some of the northerners are more liberal, but many are reliable conservative Republicans in a state without a strong Republican tradition.
There has also been an influx of blacks and hispanics to go with a strong unaffiliated segment, giving a megabucks campaign an opportunity to strongly skew the electorate in its favor.
Boom! Nails the demographics, I expect. Along with some children of the 1st group.
For an example of group 3, the AICPA moved its back office operations from NYC area to Raleigh-Durham a few years ago. While they hired a lot of new folks, since many people wouldn’t move down, many did.
We're pretty happy with living in south central Pa in an area ("outside" Harrisburg) where folks are 70-80% Republican. The only thing we don't like are the state taxes and lack of right-to-work laws. If we move it will be to the deep south or Texas.
You had an active voice sentence in that diatribe! Try again!
I lived in Asheville eleven years. It is very expensive to live there as well. Just glad to leave the cesspool. From the state taxation nightmares to the culture, glad to be gone. Perdue is ready to establish her rule, having learned from the best at corruption. I was always shocked at how close raleigh truly is to dc... in proximity and thought.
.....same Ratard that decided it might be better to “suspend” elections because of Dumbo’s economy.
. If we move it will be to the deep south or Texas.
I have had plenty of opportunities to leave TX and go to NC but after reading these comments, NC is too leftist for me and that is coming from someone who lives near Austin.
TX is in the midst of a multi-year drought and I am not so sure that this place will even be habitable come next summer without a couple tropical storms or hurricanes marching up through the state. Then there is the problem of infrastructure. TX city government is as corrupt and incompetent as any CA city, and thus while the traffic in the Austin Metropolitan Area is growing by over five hundred cars a week, there is no leadership or plan to alleviate what is considered already by AAA as some of the most congested freeways in America.
I love TX, but, like NC, the cancer of progressivism/socialism is metastasizing and it is quite possible with the influx of communists and marxists from both the East and West coasts, and the unstopped train of human debris flooding up from South of the border, TX will be a blue state shortly after Perry leaves office.
I love TX, but, like NC, the cancer of progressivism/socialism is metastasizing and it is quite possible with the influx of communists and marxists from both the East and West coasts, and the unstopped train of human debris flooding up from South of the border, TX will be a blue state shortly after Perry leaves office
Yep. No offense, but one of my pet peeves is the “try that in Texas” myth. Texas is going down the exact same path as California. Trust me, I’ve lived in rural Southern California for 51 years. Demographics is destiny, and I don’t see any way out. Not for California, not for Texas, not for the union.
She also vetoed the voter ID bill (for the same reason).
4. Daddy always voted dimocrap.
Of course, that was back when the democrats had conservatives. Many traditional dims simply cannot understand that their party left them long ago.
North Carolina is a very conservative state, in fact so conservative it is still fighting the War Between the States.
So, while one’s grandmother may be as conservative as you can get socially and economically, she can still run the local Democratic Machine without seeing a real disparity (Clinton aside - FDR did save this nation, fwiw...).
So the feud between (somewhat) Democrat/Southern Haywood County and (somewhat) Republican/Yankee-Sympathizing Madison County accounts for why I40 nonsensically runs through a gorge that continually has landslides instead of where I26 now does.
There were a couple of over mountain massacres that have never been fully forgiven. A lot of internecine warfare from town to town, and region to region.
Despite the fact that the war era governor was a westerner (Buncombe County, real pretty homestead outside of Asheville), the mountainous end of the state has always tended to get the short shift when it comes to politics. That area really didn’t have much concern over slavery, and many independently minded folks were pro Union Sympathizers, who got especially ticked when Georgian Units came conscripting. In fact, many of them may have adopted there sentiments after such actions.
About the only thing that everyone agreed on was being against whoever came in to tell them what to do, and as ultimately that was the Union Republicans, and Reconstruction was unkind to everyone in the state (except a few Republican governors, probably), it has been pretty hard to be a Republican for many folks ever since.
Interesting list of Governor’s Party Affiliations here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_North_Carolina
Actually, I think you may be right. The old Democrat sway is perhaps opening up to in-comers who are likely to be Republican as die hard liberal Democrat, and the now sixth plus or minus generation of grandchildren of the aforementioned hostilities (and third from FDR [who saved this nation...]) are less likely to equate conservatism and party affiliation. Some of that is good, some of that is a deplorable result of poor education, but some prejudices are best left behind regardless of their roots.
Not to downplay their influence, but the ultra liberal establishment in the Asheville area is relatively recent, if you get out of it a bit, you have a lot less. I still recall with humor the people who were convinced that Jesse Helms stole the election because “everyone [they] knew voted for” who ever that was. The problem with small social circles is the assumptions they make about the population at large.
Note to Republicans - I am less likely to equate conservatism with party affiliation myself, having been fooled once or twice by now, so shape up or ship out your own selves.
As a native, I find your assessment accurate.
No one in NC likes this woman even in the liberal areas.She will not win re election.
I didn’t say he was a conservative. I said he’s going to be the Republican nominee for governor in 2012.
I moved my family down here from Northern VA 8 years ago and now live among the natives of the 2nd Congressional District AKA Johnston County. Last year we barely nudged Bob "Who are you" Etheridge out of office and now have a stronger reshaped district that truely represents the natives and yankee refugees of Johnston County, thanks to our new and improved state legislators. Hopefully next year's Democratic National Convention in Charlotte will be reminiscent of Napoleon and Hitler's retreats from Moscow.
Cary - I know someone who was born/bred in NY and his wife retired there and raved about it. But he’s not liberal at all. So don’t blame all NC woes on retired NY’ers. Had a coworker who originated from NC, married and had a kid and moved back there and she’s a rabid liberal. Sweet with southern hospitality and charm but dumb as rocks.
Bev Eaves (Purdue is the last name of her first husband) is absolutely horrendous. In 2008, almost all of the major newspapers in the state endorsed the Republican candidate. When the media endorses a Republican, it is apparent to anyone with a 75+ IQ that the Democrat is worthless. She rode the long coat tails of Obama into office.
She should end up in jail along with Mike Easley. But just like Mike, she’ll get a free pass even though both were up to the necks in corruption.
This is the same ugly leftist bitch he stated if Obama could not win the election — the election would be canceled. She spilled the beans on the Obamatrons real agenda for 2012.
“She’s a Democrat, so the law doesn’t apply to her.”
An unfortunate if practical fact about the opinion of democrats, that their obtaining and holding on to power is an end justified by any means.
In this case of this democrat that includes suspending election.
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