Pat McCrory's verbal attacks on the Governor

Via NC Democratic Party Facebook notes,

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CHARLOTTE - NC Democratic Party Executive Director Jay Parmley issued the following statement in response to Pat McCrory's verbal attacks on the Governor in regard to new unemployment numbers.

"Pat McCrory's attack on the Governor is a shame and his solutions-- as far as we can intuit them-- are a sham.  The former Mayor continues to criticize the work of men and women who are leading during the toughest time in our state's modern history while doing nothing to solve those problems.  

He hasn't even announced he's running for governor, which enables him to attack Bev Perdue without facing any scrutiny himself.  That's cowardly and safe-- two things that Bev Perdue hasn't had the luxury to be since she defeated McCrory three years ago.

From McCrory, no solutions.  He gave us a hint about his agenda last week when he issued a robocall urging supporters to demand that their legislators override Bev Perdue's vetoes.  We can presume that he would have rubber stamped everything this republican legislative majority proposed.

This leaves voters triangulating McCrorys positions from one-sided press releases, speeches to tea party gatherings and the GOP agenda.  

On the jobs issue, we can only assume that he would have permanently frozen long term unemployment benefits-- without relief-- as the leaders of his party attempted to do this year.

He would have allowed them to make even deeper cuts to our schools and the public sector, which represent the single greatest job losses government has direct control over.  In this terrible economy, he would have laid off far more teachers than Thom Tillis and Phil Berger did this year already.  

The unemployment rate would be even higher under Governor McCrory.

Meanwhile, the Berger/Tillis/McCrory formula for job creation is "reg reform, med mal and energy" (quoting an @SenatorBerger tweet in response to today's numbers).  Not one of them has hung any details on that scant recipe for recovery.

Regulatory reform this session has taken the form of gutting environmental rules.  Are we to assume that McCrory would entice manufacturers by advertising the most lenient pollution rules in the region?  

Their Med Mal legislation sought to strip patients of their right to seek damages the event of an emergency room error.  This creates job opportunities for whom?  The lousiest doctors in the country, unemployable in states that care about consumer rights?

Finally, their energy plan seeks to open our pristine coasts and the piedmont to drilling and natural gas fracking.  This would welcome Big Oil to the Tarheel State, creating a revenue stream for Republican politicians looking for political donations, and the potential for environmental disaster and polluted water for the rest of us.  

Republican office holders and also-maybe-might-of-rans like Pat McCrory are pitching the same tired trickle down economics that most of us discounted years ago: tax breaks for millionaires, low wages for workers, zero regulations for polluters and big business.

It's a lie, and Pat McCrory is pushing it with impunity.  If he'd like to announce he's running for office and stand before the people and the press to face our questions, he should do it.  But the unfounded attacks that non-mayor, non-candidate McCrory has become so fond of don't do a thing to help bring down the unemployment rate.  That's cowardice, pure and simple."