Aldona Wos

In her own words.

Please listen to this and then ask yourself: Is this really the best North Carolina can do? A puppet spouting platitudes about living in a democracy?

I wish we did live in a democracy, but we don't. We live in a state where the government in power has rigged elections to get majorities that don't reflect the principle of one-person-one-vote. If American observers were to witness this situation in a third-world country, they'd declare the process corrupt and insist on new elections.

It really is that bad, and no amount of happy talk from Aldona Wos changes things one damn bit.

It was bad enough that Secretary Wos tried to place the blame for the GOP's Medicaid meltdown on Commissioner Goodwin. But now she says her comments were taken out of context? Seriously?

“In reference to your roundabout way of commenting about Medicaid expansion … in North Carolina, based on our constitution, the issue of Medicaid expansion or not, actually, was the commissioner of insurance’s,” Wos said. “Just so that you all know that and are aware of that.”

Secretary Wos lied and got caught. Instead of apologizing, she's offered nothing but a bunch of double-talk. She should resign.

Adam Linker reads the tea leaves:

We have seen this exact plan play out in a number of states. In Kentucky, there is chaos. The state auditor there began a probe when he heard reports that small medical providers needed new lines of credit to stay open. In the first several months of implementation, the auditor discovered, managed-care companies received $708 million from the state and paid out just $420 million in claims.

When you have a multiple-tier system with a private entity disbursing public funds to other private entities, that pie is going to get sliced to death before it gets to the hands-on care provider. Again, it ain't rocket science. And it's not like NC doesn't already have a disaster of its own to reference:

Although Pat McCrory campaigned as a "political outsider" who would root out special interests and reject "business as usual," the truth is this: before he even took office, McCrory had broken his campaign promises and surrounded himself with veterans of the good ole boy network.

Progress North Carolina has set up a special website to catalogue the proof of this. Please share our new accountability website graphics with others so people understand: we need to watch this guy closely. See the website here. Or you can review its contents after the jump.

Within days of winning the election, Pat McCrory broke his campaign promise to keep special interests out of state government. He has surrounded himself with veterans of the good ole boy network and plunged headlong into conflicts of interest unbecoming of our state’s highest office.