nc policy watch

Today's numbers look at the Senate plan to undermine North Carolina's middle class families and redistribute even more wealth to the ultra-rich. Read 'em and weep.

Required reading from NC Policy Watch.

Republicans in Raleigh just looooooove the left side of this chart.

Good people may disagree about the wisdom of Moral Mondays, but from where I sit, the strategy of civil disobedience is the single most effective action concerned citizens can take to fight the illegitimate government in Raleigh. NC Policy Watch today offers an excellent analysis of the situation, well worth your time and attention.

Read the whole article, and then mark your calendars for June 3 (if not sooner) to join a full-court press against the Republican machine.

The headline says everything you need to know about Grover and the rats who are dancing to his tune. Very good to see NC Policy Watch sharpening the edge of their rhetorical knife.

from NC Policy Watch

According to my colleague Adam Linker, at this afternoon’s public hearing with DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos on Governor McCrory’s plan to privatize the NC Medicaid program, there was more disinformation given out by McCrory’s appointees. McCrory’s Medicaid Director Carol Steckel said that the biggest myth about McCrory’s Medicaid plan is that they want private managed care. She denied strongly that they want to privatize NC’s award-winning physician-run nonprofit Medicaid managed care system.

This is simply incorrect. Here’s the presentation from Governor Pat McCrory introducing the Medicaid privatization plan. It states its goal of privatization very clearly on page six when it discusses the entities to which NC Medicaid contract will be awarded...

Turns out the whole scam is part of a national effort by a for-profit company named Zaner-Bloser that makes money teaching (you guessed it) cursive! Not only did Pat Hurley misrepresent the research around handwriting, she allowed herself to be used by shady special interests. The plot sickens.

Taking arrogance and paranoia to dizzying heights.

A Lee County community college stopped airing a radio talk show this month after a state lawmaker took issue with an online post a radio host wrote criticizing the lawmaker.

A legislative assistant for State Rep. Mike Stone, wrote the president of Central Carolina Community College on April 3 asking what the school’s affiliation was with “The Rant,” a weekly radio show hosted by three former Sanford-area journalists on the college’s FM radio station WDCC, 90.5. Stone is a Sanford Republican serving his second term in the state legislature.

More evidence, if you need it, that trickle down economics doesn't actually trickle down. Look for things to get a lot worse now that Governor Pope is sharpening his chainsaw.

DRNC Director Vicki Smith's blog on Policy Watch site:

Irrespective of our political views, I and most everyone I know were relieved to see campaign season end. This campaign season was divisive. Differences between candidates and parties were not just highlighted, they were polarizing.