Bloggers at NC-11 GOP Convention
4/30/2007 04:56:00 AMA couple of bloggers from the other side of the aisle attended the NC-11 GOP Convention Saturday, and here are their reports of the event:
Report filed at Scrutiny Hooligans:
Karl Rove and the North Carolina 11th District Republican Convention
“They embrace a culture of defeat…death, and we have to fight them there, so we don’t have to fight them here.” - Karl Rove, in Hendersonville on Saturday, April 28, talking about Democrats or terrorists. I’m not sure which.179 old white delegates gathered at West Henderson High School to hold their annual 11th district Republican Convention. Every county in the district had a section, and the empty half of the auditorium held the press, the non-delegates, and the Hooligans. Clay County didn’t bother sending anyone at all, though an imaginary source told me that they stayed away because Rove’s pheromones cause Clay county women to swoon and Clay County men to feel desperate and insecure.
The same article was cross posted at BlueNC.
And they scored an interview with Jeff Hunt. Cross-posted at BlueNC.
Here's a little open secret about blogs: most of the truly interesting inside baseball stuff happens in the comments section, so pay attention.
Campaign gifts link treasurer, law firms
4/01/2007 07:07:00 AMState Treasurer Richard Moore, who has overseen the sale of $5.5 billion in bonds since he took office in 2001, has steered much of the lucrative legal bond work to the law firms of lawyers who have helped finance his political career.Moore has raised at least $215,525 from some of North Carolina's elite law firms, including donations from some of the biggest names in state politics, according to a review of campaign finance reports filed with the State Board of Elections.
Moore, a Democrat and two-term treasurer, said he sees no problem in accepting contributions from lawyers whose firms have gotten state business. He said his main interest has been in shifting the legal bond work from Wall Street to firms in North Carolina.
Of course, North Carolina Treasurer Richard Moore would see nothing wrong with that kind of activity. Diane Feinsten saw nothing wrong until she was exposed, then "retired" from her Senate Committee that oversaw many contracts that went to her husband.
Hmmm.
The Silence of the Democrats is Profound.
VP Dick Cheney was once associated with a company called Halliburton, and the Democrats have been howling about that for well-nigh six years now.
