Anderson to challenge Nelson Dollar
Submitted by James on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 3:39pm
Robin Anderson of Cary, an employment attorney and Chair of the State Personnel Commission, has announced that she is filing today for election to the N.C. House of Representatives.
“In my professional and public life, I have seen the impact that unemployment has on people and families. That’s why I’ll be laser-focused on creating jobs.”
“Now is not the time for more politics and partisanship. We need solutions so we don’t turn our backs on North Carolinians who work hard every day at their jobs - or their job searches - to provide for their families; for small businesses who can’t keep their doors open; for law enforcement needing resources; or those for whom affordable healthcare remains out of reach. North Carolina is at an important crossroad, it is time to fight for solutions.”
Go Robin!
I really, really wanted her to beat the elevator lady, but cashing Dollar in would be mighty fine, too.
Can we please get away from lawyers?
No doubt we need to have lawyers in our political system. But, c'mon, guys, most lawyers that get into it are for themselves...to gain power...etc.
Where are our businessmen/businesswomen in this mix? Yes, I know we have some of those, but geeezzz, y'all. We need to have a voice of businesses a voice of fiscal reason...a voice of those that aren't just wanting to advance their own personal agenda.
Let's get some people in office that know what it takes to get our country back to being fiscally responsible not people that want to grow within our political system and do not work for the lower and middle class working people.
Can we just do that...PLEASE ???
"I am working for jobs"...I am all about the middle class"..."I want to make sure everyone has an equal chance"...all very nice rhetoric. All bullshit when it comes to doing that.
Let's get some people in office that can and WILL do exactly what they say.
Abe Lincoln
was a lawyer.
You're off base with Ms. Anderson ... and I encourage you to do some research about her background and record of service. She has worked her butt of for regular North Carolina citizens for many years. She ran for Commissioner of Labor ... and it's a great shame that she lost. She would have been an awesome commissioner.
That "lawyer brush" you're painting with seems awfully wide, Mr. Fox.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Ah, yes...opinions
They're like navels. Spin it as you wish...Gotta want more folks that have knowledge in business and things like profit and loss and abuse of credit running our state and country in my view. But, hey, I do not want to try to get into some kind of debate here where presentation means more than beliefs and actuality.
Like I said in the post above...we need lawyers in our system. We also need people that know more than just legal jargon and are legislation experts. We need to have business sense...common sense...in our decisions.
Sorry we are not on the same page here, James.
Abe lived in a very different time than we live in now. Apples and oranges, actually.
We need more reformers
Robin's a reformer. She works for the less-advantaged, and gives lawyers a good name.
While I think we need diverse views in government - I'm known for trying to get more young people in government - business people can be a good choice, or a bad choice. Look at Carly Fiorina and the Demon sheep, for example. And Lawyers can end up being bad public servants - look no further than North Carolina's election of a handsome lawyer with no experience or moral compass to the US Senate - or good public servants, like more than a few presidents.
But every individual should be taken on their merits. And if you take Robin on her merits, you'll find her to be quite the leader.
I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero—that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. - Bill Hicks
Thanks.
I agree. I'm not sure where Foxtrot is coming from, but everything I know about Robin is reassuring. The fact that she didn't win an election is nothing in my book. I've lost two elections ... and I'm still a wonderful guy!
: )
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Yes you do
You know EXACTLY where I'm coming from. C'mon, man.
Love ya long time, James. But, you know what I'm sayin'.
Exactly Oliver
Excellent post.
Okay, did a little research
This
And this
And this
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Just sayin'
Can we please get away from lawyers?Try saying that when in Jail
But, c'mon, guys, most lawyers that get into it are for themselves...to gain power...etc.*Foxtrot
Sounds like you come from the School of Shakespear? " The first thing we do when we seize power is waterboard the lawyers and than kill them. If that does not work, we shipped them to the Colony of Georgia and make them Slaves."* paraphasing old Shake after he got screw by his former wife lawyer over child support payments..
Ain't ya cute?
I will work diligently to digest that post. Someone here might be able to decipher it. Hopefully they'll tell me what it means.
Thanks for the input, Justice. :)
some lawyers are good business people
Down my way the lawyers crowd the TV air waves telling me to call them if I get hurt on the job or get in an accident or have taken any pills within the past year or get hit by a semi-truck or know anyone who took Paxil while pregneant. Many lawyers have become excellent sales people and are putting the used car salesmen to shame. My lawyer has changed his practice, closed up his office and now he sits in his car in the Wal Mart parking lot waiting for an old lady to fall. If you want a will or a lease drawn up you have to go online or buy a PrePaid Legal Policy. These lawyers could save the economy in just a few days. They would make excellent candidates because they already spend much time in front of a TV camera and most of them wear that hair gel.
Cutie Pies come in last in a Ugly Contest?
I will work diligently to digest that post. Someone here might be able to decipher it. Hopefully they'll tell me what it means* Foxtrot
You have to stop watching Glenn Beck with his Blackboard! It appears that it lowers your IQ by 120 points and don't eat any lawyers papers that are being serve on you!
Lose the Glenn Beck thingy, Justice
I do not watch Glenn Beck and have zero clue what the blackboard is. So sad you go to that length to try to trash someone that doesn't agree with you. How do you know about Glenn Beck and that blackboard? Who is watching, actually?
Get real.
Foxtrot
I recommend not getting into it with Madame. At the risk of not taking my own advice, s/he isn't bound by reality as we know it ... just let it wash around you.
:)
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Gotcha
Probably good advice. Thanks, James.
He/She/It sure is strange folk, think?
But then, there are probably some people here that think of me in the same way :)
Pay the Legislature
There are not a whole lot of professions that allow you to take weeks and months off at a time to go up to Raleigh for legislative sessions. Law is one that can offer that flexibility.
If we paid our legislators good full-time salaries and made them earn them, we'd have a lot more "regular people" as potential candidates.
Yes
I have come fully around to your way of thinking about public pay ... you have made a convert!
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
WTF?
You mean like the "business" people at Goldman Sachs? Those masters at sucking off the taxpayers' teat?
The first president with an MBA -- deficit monger George W. Bush?
Common sense and "business" people don't always go hand-in-hand. In fact, they don't go together at all these days.
What part of fiscally responsible and legal knowledge is mutually exclusive?
What makes anyone trust business people these days?
Again. Ignore.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Wow! Sorry you want to go there
Sorry you feel that way, my friend. I hope that regardless of what can be brought up as spin about some of the past failures in America with regard to our "business" interests, we end up knowing and understanding that this element of our society is what will bring us out of our current situation.
Call me anything ya want. I just do not believe that government can get us out of our economic woes all by itself and that the private sector needs to be looked at as the major player in that endeavor. If you disagree, then you disagree. Government can have its input and should be involved and needs to have the control needed, but, at the end of the day, if we discount business, we lose. Government and industry have had their share of graft and corruption and have both caused our plight. But there is only one alternative to allowing private enterprise and business and entrepreneurship to bring us out of this debacle mostly caused by our republican friends...and NONE of us want that alternative.
Let me try this again
The other day I wrote about this, but let me try once more.
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You're writing as though we're on the verge of capitalism disappearing under the thumb of Big Government.
Federal government spending across all departments and functions, including defense, levels and jurisdictions has been declining over the past 20 years, in spite of the growth happening in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The total is around 18 - 20%. That means business is five times bigger than government. Roughly one in ten people work for government at all levels (state, local, federal combined). That means that the private workforce is ten time larger than the public workforce.
If you want to argue that federal government spending should be less than 18% of the total economy in America, fine. But don't argue that business is being threatened by government. Business is doing just fine. There more then enough millionaires today to go around just fine.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
Was that directed to me?
I think you know I do not believe that way.
It is good stuff though.
No ... sorry
Just ranting in general.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
please let this argument go to another diary
Why not celebrate the fact that we have a brave Democrat standing up to run for this seat?
Progressives are the true conservatives.
Another diary?
Certainly you favor Robin's candidacy, but sending the discussion off to another thread or "diary" is just taking it "down the road". It is important that we consider her candidacy and discuss her as a candidate. Here, she will be a favored entity, of course. But, we cannot just discount questions about her and about why she is running and about the race overall.
I think you probably want to quell the dissent and the arguing, loftT, for the good of the blog, of course. But, is blueNC not all about discussing such issues?
Not trying to be argumentative here. Just do not want to see our venue here something that shuts off or transfers off good debate.
Thanks.
You haven't been talking about her
candidacy though, you have been talking about something else.
I'm not trying to shut off debate but it ticks me off that when a Democrat (the only one who has) has put herself on the line, that other Democrats would argue that she's not a good candidate because she has a law degree?? Is that what you are arguing?
We don't really know anything about her yet. Let's give it a chance.
Progressives are the true conservatives.
I know a lot about her
She's a tireless worker, a person of integrity, a dedicated public servant, and a solid Democrat of impeccable character.
Any concerns about her being a lawyer are totally off base.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
I see your ire
Nah, I am not against her because of her law degree. I just have this belief that we are extremely heavy (both dem and repub) with lawyers rather than people that have an in-depth knowledge of business and in being fiscally responsible. I know that there are all kinds of cases where the private sector has taken advantage of our people...but I also know that stands true with government as well. I see just so many legislators that get their law degree and then in short order go into public service in the way of elected office. I do not see them as knowing squat about capitalism and in taking care of our business interests which, by the way, is where the VAST majority of our jobs come from and as a result where the money comes from in the form of taxes into the treasuries of both the Fed and the States.
That is our strength. That is our salvation, in my view.
I argue it from a point of view that is mostly considered negative here and I see you view me that way. But, if you knew me better, you would not think of me that way.
So, let us not discuss it any further
Anything other than kudos for her or for wanting more people with business sense and experience seem to be off base.
No need to discuss it any further, then.
Thanks.
You're missing some context, Foxy
A lot of the folks here at BlueNC were heavily involved in the 2008 election, and we got to know and like Robin in the process. While you just see another lawyer, we see someone we know, you dig? She's smart and nice and diligent and a whole lot of other traits that would make her a fantastic legislator, and I know that if you got to know her, you'd agree.
You are probably correct
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, sharrison, got called away on a little emergency.
I know you are right, of course, on not knowing Robin Anderson and she shouldn't be dismissed just because she's a lawyer. I am struggling right now with this horrendous jobs and economic situation in the U.S. and our state and have this belief that we need the smartest business minds in the state and country working on that. But, I guess lawyers are business people too in their own way. There just seems to be so many of them running our economic decisions and even though I guess business folks in government have not done much better in that regard, maybe we just have not had the RIGHT business people in government.