governor 2008

“The Democrats in North Carolina are what the Republicans usually are, and the Republicans are the Taliban,” Munger said, with characteristic brashness. “They look to scripture to decide what their positions should be.”

In a wide-ranging interview with the Winston-Salem Journal, Mike Munger, Libertarian candidate for governor in North Carolina, does what almost no politician ever does: he calls it exactly like he sees it. And while I don't agree with much of what the good professor has to say, I sure do love the way he says it.

What is going wrong with Richard Moore's campaign for Governor? After pulling an ineffective ad portraying the Treasurer as an angry white guy who doesn't want complex issues to be studied any more, he now borrows from the losing campaign playbooks of Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.

Ripped from the Capital Letters blog at the Asheville Citizen-Times:

Gubernatorial candidate Bev Perdue picked up some more endorsements today, this time from 11 past presidents of the N.C. Nurses Association. One is from WNC, Gerry Roberts of Forest City.

The group's political arm doesn't make an endorsement in the primary, according to Purdue's campaign.

Perdue is piling up endorsements in her run for the Democratic nomination against state Treasurer Richard Moore (who has endorsements of his own) and longshot candidate Dennis Nielsen (really, who needs endorsements when a statue has been built of you?)

Perdue has the support of a couple of law enforcement groups, the N.C. Troopers Association and the new N.C. Sheriff Police Alliance.

Plenty of other workers' groups have her back: the Communications Workers of America, the United Transportation Union, the National Association of Social Workers and, probably most significantly, the N.C. Association of Educators.

So what do our NC candidates say is their positions on the Death Penalty
Who supports the moratorium?

Who says death penalty is helping keep our prison population down>?

Last night, the Republican gubernatorial candidates participated in a major debate that was broadcast on some of North Carolina’s top-rated television stations during early primetime (7 PM). Not surprisingly, they used the opportunity to bash Democratic candidates Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue. Watch the video:

Frontpaged by Anglico. Be sure to watch the Orr video. He's the least offensive of the Republican candidates, and I am surely damning with faint praise.

UPDATE: After posting this yesterday, both campaigns have responded with an enthusiastic "yes" . . . which is very exciting! Now we have to work out the details.

Please use this thread to share your ideas about how to make the most of our opportunity to host Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue here at BlueNC. Robert's comment below has some interesting thinking. Please weigh in right away. We want to lock this down in the next couple of days.

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Bev came out yesterday with the third installment of Building a New North Carolina: Main Street Solutions. This initiative will give a boost to the economic development of small towns and cities across North Carolina.

The state Department of Commerce has an existing Main Street program, but it only gets $450,000 annually from the state legislature. That’s a pittance considering the importance of our small towns and cities.

Bev’s immediate goal will be to increase funding to $2.25 million, so that we can help more towns around the state. That sum still represents only a fraction of what the state pays in annual incentives to relocating businesses. The projects funded through Main Street will themselves serve as tools to attract relocating and start-up businesses.

Taking from best practices in other states and success stories here in North Carolina and in consultation with local leaders; Main Street Solutions will develop a flexible menu of options from which our smaller town and cities can choose in activating their own economic development strategies.

Please read more about the program here.

If you haven’t already read the first two parts of Building a New North Carolina, Rural HOPE and BRAC Budget Reform.