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Old 01-08-2013, 04:30 PM
 
Location: The South
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Originally Posted by lovebrentwood View Post
He's picked the most vile of conservatives. I hope you're all happy.

"BREAKING NEWS: GOV.-ELECT PAT MCCRORY HAS NAMED ART POPE, FINANCIER OF CONSERVATIVE CAUSES, AS HIS DEPUTY BUDGET DIRECTOR. HE ALSO NAMED RALEIGH ATTORNEY KIERAN SHANAHAN AS SECRETARY OF PUBLIC SAFETY."
It's pretty sad. Now Tatta? Seriously?
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Old 01-08-2013, 04:39 PM
 
Location: The South
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Well, time will tell but the modus operandi of other recently "Republican" states is to go after social conservative issues with a vengeance. I sincerely hope that they don't but I won't be surprised if they do.
They already started...the marriage amendment rammed through the Republican-controlled Legislature back 2011.
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Old 01-08-2013, 04:43 PM
 
Location: The South
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Soon North Carolina will be as literate and as healthy as Georgia, South Carolina, or Mississippi...
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Old 01-08-2013, 04:51 PM
 
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Well, we can start with the fact that South Carolina has done a FAR better job at lowering their unemployment rate.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-extbEFsrlS...loyFeb2012.jpg
If a healthy dose of state- and locally-funded subsidies and an unemployment rate over 9% is good?
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Old 01-08-2013, 07:31 PM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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If a healthy dose of state- and locally-funded subsidies and an unemployment rate over 9% is good?

You do realize that the true unemployment number for the nation is ~14%, right?
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Old 01-08-2013, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Washington DC
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You do realize that the true unemployment number for the nation is ~14%, right?
Yeah. And the Polls were skewed for democrats by "mainstream" media, lol.


I'm still happy about Mecklenburgs influence in the state. There was an article about our biggest influence ever in the state. I'm a liberal and if I had to have pubs runnin the show, I'm glad it's McCrory.

We got 2 skyscrapers over 20 stories already announced in jan., our baseball stadium & urban park should be finished this year, our 10mile Light Rail extension gets visible work starting this year, hopefully our new East/West rail line gets a 10 mile extension also, and I hear a few more skyscrapers are in the works to be announced this year. Our economy is growing, 2013 is going to be an amazing year for Charlotte, Raleigh, Triad, North Carolina and hopefully the entire USA

I'm embracing the pubs running this state. Except Art Pope
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Old 01-08-2013, 10:54 PM
 
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I'm still happy about Mecklenburgs influence in the state. There was an article about our biggest influence ever in the state.
I wouldn't say this is the biggest influence ever in the state. Take a look at the following symbols that should be very familiar to you.



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^^^There are two dates on these popular NC symbols. The bottom date represents the Halifax Resolves while the date up top represents the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Both of these dates paved the way for America's independence. Also, they both show that the power structure in NC has been East vs West for a long time.

I only decided to bring this up because the whole East vs West thing has evolved quite a bit with all of the transplants to this state. Today, the East tends to bring in new blood in the form of the Democratic party while the West is mostly Republican. Amendment one (which I thought was dumb bigotry against NC citizens) was the republican party's way of sending a message to the new Democrats to this state. The message was this; "NC may have gone blue, but the core values of this state are red". Like it or not, they were right. Many rural Democrats voted in favor of Amendment one. Only the real liberal areas of NC (only 7 counties out of 100) voted against it.

With that said, I'd suggest that anyone who thinks that "NC dems are liberals just like me" need to think again. Republicans in places like Portland Oregon are more accepting to liberal ideology than the average NC dem is (especially a rural eastern NC dem).

Which brings me back to many of the comments on this thread. Though I'm not crazy about the Art Pope pick either, I think too many folks (mostly Dems) are calling McCrory a failure before he's actually started the job. I say give him time. Time will judge whether or not he was good for NC. It's like some folks are so brainwashed into thinking that "the other party can't ever do good".

I personally voted for Obama and McCrory, but if my picks didn't win, I certainly wouldn't have prejudged the "other guy". I think Romney might have been a good president (far better than Bush, but not as understanding of the common man as Obama). As for Dalton, well.... he seemed like an extension of Perdue that would not have turned out well at all. Clearly, the presidential race was much more of a toss-up than NC's race for governor. The choice was clear with the latter; VERY clear.

The Art Pope pick...
I find it so funny that the John Locke folks are now jumping onto the McCrory bandwagon. It wasn't long ago that these folks tried to run him and his "choo choo" out of Charlotte. They wanted mass transit expansion off of NC's budget so badly that they lied to get the vote (to end the transit sales tax) to the public just weeks before the line was sceduled to start service. The public shot that effort down with a 70/30 defeat of the transit tax repeal. The plan was to embarrass McCrory, but the exact opposite happened. I guess the John Locke guys figured "hey, if you can't beat him, join him". It will be interesting to see how this shot-gun wedding turns out.

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Old 01-10-2013, 12:29 PM
 
Location: On The Gulf Coast Now
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why don't you give the guy a year and see what happens

isn't that what you wanted people to do when be barry won
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