Kay Hagan

Waiting on Kay.

Being a pro-business Democrat is a good thing; being a corporate-owned Democrat, less so. Working with leadership to better serve North Carolina is a good thing; responding "how high?" when party bosses and well-paid alums tell you to jump, less so.

Why do Kay Hagan and Mel Watt support legislation that would harm the open internet?

Hat tip to Ed Cone

North Carolina has the second-longest federal judicial emergency in the nation.

And tell her to vote NO on the Protect IP Act. This is legislation written by commercial interests, for commercial interests, pure and simple.

Democratic Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is inexplicably leading the charge in the Senate with the Protect IP Act. Republican Texas Rep. Lamar Smith is leading the companion bill in the House with the Stop Online Piracy Act. This bill would've been rushed through with no debate through both chambers had it not been for the singular efforts of Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, a true hero of grassroots media and the social web.

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Dear Kay:

So far, the only people I've found who see a shred of wisdom in your "tax holiday" idea are a handful of bought-and-paid-for members of Congress. Maybe you could use this as an opportunity to be a careful, responsive listener?

As several posts have reported recently, Senator Hagan is leading the charge to give corporations a reward for scamming America. Her "repatriation holiday" is a bad idea at every level of analysis except for the corporate balance sheet.

Never let it be said that BlueNC is a blindly partisan operation.

Regarding Kay Hagan's continuing preference for corporations over of people.

I imagine Cisco’s lobbyists have spent considerable time in Ms Hagan’s office over this one.

I love how the proponents of “tax holidays” always leave out why the money is overseas in the first place. They diverted it there to avoid paying US taxes in the first place. Yes, it was by-the-book legal, but it was still a purposeful attempt to avoid paying US taxes, and everyone knows it.

As the tumult over the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt continues, so does the fleecing of America. We are discussing slashing safety net programs that protect average citizens without jobs in this economy. Meanwhile, Washington considers the Freedom to Invest Act of 2011 (H.R.1834), corporate welfare for "super citizen" companies that moved those jobs offshore and hid profits there, too. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) received moral support last week from NC Democrat Sen. Kay Hagan:

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Back in January, Kay Hagan attended the Martin Luther King Day service at King's Park International Church in Durham, North Carolina. Video of her speech here:

On paper, that church seems to be the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream--it's one of the most diverse churches in North Carolina and the South. Nothing wrong with that, right? Problem is that this church is a member of Every Nation, one of the more notorious outfits in the dominionist/Latter Rain movement. It was also once part of Maranatha Campus Ministries, a dangerous campus cult from the 1980s.