Realtor Ticks

Talk about playing to special interests. The real estate industry has helped knock America to its economic knees. And Burr has what to say?

Found on Twitter.

It's not surprising that membership in the over-reaching, arrogant North Carolina Association of Realtors is dropping like flies. Perhaps it's just the economy. Perhaps the Ticks have lost touch with what's important to their members. Or perhaps it's because the leadership at NCAR may not have the integrity of a gnat. Pardon the strained metaphors.

This story slipped by me over the weekend, so special thanks to Chris Fitzsimon for covering things over at NC Policy Watch. For those of you who have been keeping up with the Realtor Ticks and their undue influence on public policy in North Carolina, go ahead and get out your bug spray. They're back.

The Realtors and homebuilders are clearly wealthy special interests that exert significant influence on elections and the state policymaking process. This weekend, the Charlotte Observer reminded us that state coastal management policy is also influenced by wealthy special interests, in this case by the well-heeled residents of Figure Eight Island, an exclusive, private, gated beach community just north of Wrightsville Beach.