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It was bad enough that Republican leaders like Skip Stam put their (considerable) weight behind getting their little buddy elected to the Apex town council. It didn't matter that the guy had been arrested for drunk driving, he had friends in high places. So it comes as no surprise that Scott Lassiter is looking for a way to avoid taking responsibility for his actions.

But hey, at least he's creative.

It was a routine drunk driving stop. State Trooper M. Cape saw the car swerving in and out of lanes around midnight on Feb. 13th. He pulled the car over, asked the driver, a 24-year old male, to take a blood alcohol test.

The man refused. The man was arrested. The man was given a court date.

Then the man ran for Apex Town Council, and with the help of Republican stalwarts Mayor Keith Weatherly and Rep. Skip Stam (R-Apex), he won.

Scott Lassiter, a 24-year old teacher at the Johnston Co. Schools, was been groomed by the Apex Republican establishment for years. Ironically, his mother is Ann Lassiter, a confidant of former Democrat Speaker Jim Black and recipient of several thousand taxpayer dollars to write a 20-page “book” about the General Assembly a few years back. But that didn’t stop her and Keith Weatherly from being close, or from Weatherly appointing Lassiter to the town Parks & Rec board when Lassiter was still in high school.

This is the Paul Stam's vision for North Carolina. Save zygotes, execute the women who dare to choose abortion.

An amendment facing voters in Mississippi would declare a fertilized human egg to be a legal person, effectively branding abortion and some birth control as murder.

There's nothing "effectively" or "branding" about this. The Tarheel Taliban judge abortion and morning-after birth control as a capital crime. Fry those murdering mothers. That'll show everybody who's in charge of this f/cked up state.

Previously.

Breaking: Debate discussion reveals that the NC marriage amendment ballot initiative will not contain GOP's bogus last-minute additional language meant to appease business community's concerns.

(Photo: Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam (R-Apex), Moderator Professor Michael Gerhardt of the UNC School of Law, House Minority Whip Rep. Rick Glazier (D-Cumberland).

The debate on the topic of North Carolina's discriminatory, job-killing marriage amendment was really over before it began when bill sponsor, the bigoted State House Majority Leader Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam (R-Apex) passed out two documents to the attendees at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Law today. In his opening remarks he gleefully referred to the "Act Concerning Marriages (1669)" handout (below) as if it were some holy text representing law in North Carolina. He seems to have forgotten that in 1669, blacks were slaves and they couldn't even marry one another. That's a real tradition to uphold.

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Hilarious.

Words matter in politics. So do promises. Damned right, Social Security and Medicare are entitlements. And damned right the people who pay for them are entitled to what was promised them in return.

Do not let Republicans turn "entitled" into a bad word. You and I ARE entitled to Social Security and Medicare. We cannot stand by and let the Party of Greed unilaterally renegotiate the contracts we have with the country we live in.

I have been cautioned on many occasions against calling a spade a spade, especially when it comes to criticisms involving ignorance and stupidity. The logic goes something like this: people don't like to admit their stupidity, perhaps because of their stupidity, and will thus dig in their heels and turn the criticism on it's head. "Smart people are stupid," they'll say. "Science is stupid. Professors are stupid." It's a common refrain among the great unwashed Republican Party today.

If he had an ounce of integrity, the bigot Paul Stam would submit his resignation from the NC House of Representatives today. But don't hold your breath. Stam is just another incompetent (expletive deleted) who thinks accountability is for others. From the NCDP via email.

Today, the Employment Security Commission announced that North Carolina’s jobless rate rose to 10.4% due to the disastrous consequences of the Republican budget. In June, Republicans in the General Assembly PROMISED North Carolinians that their budget would produce a better job situation by this September:

"Tell us in September if you can tell the difference." Rep. Paul Stam (R). Associate Press 6/29/11

As of September 16th, 2011 the difference is clear: the policies being pushed by Republicans are a disaster for North Carolinians.