Immigration crackdown fears impacting tornado recovery efforts http://sp.lc/lD0w2P Only $17.5 mil diverted from Golden LEAF for next 2 fiscal years. Originally plan was to take entire $67 mil appropriation. #ncga Only ppl w/financial interest support RT @Action_NC: Stop Predatory Lenders from Raising Rates and Fees #ncga #ncpol http://fb.me/J8m0el9NT New senate budget proposal: No toll on the #Ocracoke - Hatteras ferry #ncga #ncpol Stop Predatory Lenders from Raising Rates and Fees #ncga #ncpol http://fb.me/J8m0el9N Letter from Perdue to Senate...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Why Teacher’s Assistants are important
Teacher's assistants explain their role, but brace for cuts http://t.co/bbVnxyT #ncga #ncpol Thousands of teacher's assistants in elementary classrooms are facing the chopping block under the state Senate's $19.4 budget proposal, which was unveiled last week and includes cuts to education spending overall. "We are the foundation of the bridge; but if you don't have the foundation, the bridge doesn't work," said Fran Cameron, a first grade teacher's assistant at Joyner Elementary School in Raleigh. So if the GOP what to know why these assistants...
Monday, May 30, 2011
Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested
How did I miss this, via Copblock.org In Raleigh, North Carolina, one Wake County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and another is under investigation for the theft of drugs and cash from the department. Deputy Balinda Manley, 34, was fired after her arrest last month when she was charged with two counts of embezzlement and one count of possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana. She went down after a routine audit showed that she signed out drugs and $6,435 in cash last June, but didn’t return it. When prosecuted requested the evidence...
Sunday, May 29, 2011
He doesn’t know what to Do!
Mark Binker of News and Record Ask the question?
So what happens if Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue and Republican lawmakers can’t strike a deal on the budget by the end of the fiscal year?
Now that is a great question, and the if you are a NCGA House Speaker one would think you should know this Right! Well it seen that Tillis doesn’t know his job. Doesn’t know what is the procedure, What there is no procedure written down in the Laws Book of...
Saturday, May 28, 2011
NC GOP give the Rich More tax breaks
Via the progressive pulse, The N.C. Budget and Tax Center will be releasing a full analysis of the Senate’s tax cut package next week, but, not surprisingly, the unfairness of the plan is already evident in preliminary findings. According to their initial estimates, the average annual income tax cut for people in bottom quintile (i.e. the lowest 20% of incomes) will be $5. That’s right, five big ones baby! Let’s grab a six pack of Schlitz and party! That right the GOP is giving the Rich of NC more tax breaks while sticking the poor with...
Email from David Parker of NC Democrats
During his candidacy for governor, Terry Sanford questioned "whether all children in North Carolina had a fair chance to develop, to compete, to achieve, to use fully all the talents with God had endowed them." The answer was no. When Gov. Sanford won in 1961 he implemented his platform of educational excellence and North Carolina thrived. It is now 2011, we ask the same question, and this year we get the same answer of no. However, instead of improvements, the Republican-controlled General Assembly has proposed a budget that...
Friday, May 27, 2011
Rally in Raleigh For Equality
We want to make sure you know about an event being organized by GetEQUAL NC to fight back against a Senate and House bill that could add an amendment to the North Carolina state constitution prohibiting marriage equality -- SB106 and HB777. The proposed legislation would not only put an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 ballot, it would also prevent private businesses and municipalities in NC from offering domestic partnership insurance benefits...
A Message from Burr
The week prior to a congressional recess is always busy, and this was no exception. On Monday, I cosponsored legislation introduced by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) that will provide relief from burdensome requirements placed on small businesses by the new health care law. The Obama law, marketed as health care reform, expands the size of the federal government and actually increases health care costs rather than reducing them. It is bad...
Voter ID BIll Tweet and Comment
#NCGOP voter suppression efforts would cost the state more money: http://bit.ly/k8So9M #NCGA Love this comment, it rings true, that is what the fear the most.. Losing the house and senate again. Basically they are trying to create job security from themselves.. And to hell with the people.. The GOP supporting this bill screams of desperation and fear. It's clear Repubs are simply scared that Democrats will have the same massive turnout as in '08. If people are going to have Voter ID's therefore eliminating the GOP's claim of "rampant"...
Morning Excitement on Fayetteville St.
Extra EXTRA read all about the naked woman on Fayetteville st.. Can you believe this, She was only wearing sandals, at ten in the morning, maybe she was hot, who knows. The Officers removed her asap and provided her with some clothes before they interview her and started commitment procidding.. What is the world coming to, when a woman can’t go out for a morning walk and being picked up for her choice of clothing…...
BAN OF DANGEROUS SYNTHETIC DRUGS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Elizabeth Hudgins: 919-707-5626 May 26, 2011 BAN OF DANGEROUS SYNTHETIC DRUGS GOES INTO EFFECT JUNE 1 RALEIGH: A ban of various dangerous synthetic drugs goes into effect in North Carolina on June 1, 2011. It will be illegal to sell, manufacture or possess synthetic cannabinoids, MPDV, or mephedrone. These drugs have been sold legally, often labeled as incense, bath salts, or plant food. The Child Fatality Task Force commends the General Assembly for passing and the Governor for signing this law which will help protect...
No big Fan of Bev Perdue
In my local circles its no secret that I can’t stand our Gov Bev Perdue, I don’t think she was the right person for the job.In my opinion she doesn’t have enough of a backbone to stand up the GOP in the NCGA. Well that was till recently, She veto the GOP budget that was holding 36,000 unemployed hostages to it. I feel that she did the right thing, though many of the 36,000 to 46,000 unemployed won’t agree at all. In April, Perdue called the GOP...
It’s all about the $$$$ with the NC GOP
Via twitter @bill_holmes Gboro N&R: GOP ignores military's pleas, hikes interest rates on loans offered by big donors. #ncga #ncpol http://bit.ly/jrxAJI Opponents of the bill say the vote came after pressure from Republican leaders on behalf of an industry that helped bankroll the GOP takeover of the chamber. How we know that GOP is in bed with lending companies, Rep. Harold Brubaker claims its was time to give them relief. Wow Brubaker, how much did they slip you in a brown envelope? The bill expands the maximum amount of certain small...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
HRC need an enema
I got another one of those “BIG THINGS are HAPPEN” so we need money email for HRC(The human Rights Campaign). Every time I get one of these action email, there very little info and always a request for more money. I think its high time that Joe and the rest of the over paid desk plants to take a pay cut. Joe need to start flying coach and rent reasonable auto’s instead of taking Limo’s and First Class air fairs.. From Joe, I just got off the phone...
Harold Camping should be sue for this.
Harold Camping, the preacher who predicted last Saturday would bring about the end of the world. His so called predicted cause a mother of two girls, to try to kill them and herself, A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard Camping’s message, and became concerned that her daughters would suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with...
Rep Virginia Foxx, on Abortions
Via the Washington Post, Rep. Virginia Foxx, the sponsor of the measure, says she wants to make it “crystal clear” that taxpayer money is not being used to train health care providers to perform abortions. What is this women smoking or taking?? I think someone need to check her medical cabinet, to see if she has any illegal or out of date medicines in there. Wait better yet, to see if she had a lobotomy recently.. She doesn’t want Doctor...
House Rep and the Jobless benefits bill..
House GOP ties jobless benefits bill to budget fallback proposal once again. #NCGA #NCPOL http://ht.ly/535uA The GOP claim it the Governor who is playing political games, when in truth it’s the KKK oops the Old White men in the GOP that is playing games.. Majority Leader Paul Stam, R-Wake, said it's the governor who is playing games by failing to accept a measure that would require her to accept state spending that's only 3 percent less compared...
Benjamin Jealous of NAACP is in Raleigh
Nat'l NAACP leader Ben Jealous is in Raleigh this AM for a rally w/Rev. Barber re the #ncga budget. Press conference at 9:30 at Sheraton....
A great Twitter Question??
@Fitzsimon: Why does the GOP leadership need to make a political deal before they'll help unemployed workers? Why not just help them? #ncga...
Delusions of the Left
Sorry John, Delusion is not the right word for these two jack*sses. However John does have make his case.. The Speakers of both Houses are on some strange type of power trip. Tillis has made the Statement that House of Reps is his House, not the people of NC’s house. It’s not much. If Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger listen really hard, they might be hearing the occasional, faint clink of a slow-moving javelin bouncing...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Today NCGA Tweets of Interest.
@ncjustice: Payne on benefits bill: "Unconscionable to hold families hostage to a narrow, unrelated political agenda" http://ow.ly/534YB #ncga #ncpol @markshiver Enough with empty rhetoric. 42,000 unemployed waiting for you to get off your ass so they can eat, pay bills #ncga Statesville R&L: #Teacher, 40k/year salary, expected to pay for her own #school supplies - http://ow.ly/531Vm #ncga New at Sixteen West - Senate likely to revisit SBI, crime lab move during floor debate: http://ow.ly/53aHY #NCGA Why does the GOP leadership need to make...
Thom Tillis is an self arrogant ass
Thom Tillis: Not concerned about people losing jobs: "I'm not one that sweats the small stuff." http://t.co/jJYBijc @bluenc #ncga #bluenc How nice this backward asshole doesn’t care if 45, 000 people don’t have food, or a place to stay, just as long he has his.. Life must be grand for him.. "I'm not one that sweats the small stuff," he said. "None of the line item issues concern me." His is more arrogant then Rush, hell, he makes Jesse Helms...
WTF: Shooter found incompetent to stand trial
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Breaking News Alert: Suspect in Giffords shooting found incompetent to stand trial
May 25, 2011 3:38:20 PM
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A federal judge has ruled that the suspect in the Arizona shooting rampage that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is mentally incompetent to stand trial, putting the criminal case on hold indefinitely.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Larry Burns means 21-year-old Jared Lee Loughner will be sent to a federal facility for up to four months in a bid to restore...
Phil Berger and Thom Tillis fight over Hostages
Via BlueNC, In the wake of Phil Berger's attempt to use those 45,000 unemployed hostages to promote his own Senate Budget, House Speaker Tillis appears to be on the verge of introducing a new bill, also tied to a Continuing Resolution, that includes a provision allowing those unemployed to receive the Federal funds that never should have been held back in the first place. What a pair of dingbats.. Both of these crackpots holding 45,000 unemployed...
Rod Blagojevich back on Trial..
Via the RawStory, The new corruption trial against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich launches Wednesday, to cast final judgment about whether he attempted to sell the Senate seat Barack Obama vacated to become president, among other corruption charges. However he does have a heart, kinda, he want to the state save some money, also helping himself while at it. In March, Blagojevich asked for the retrial to be canceled in order to save the taxpayer...
Senator Al Franken on Elizabeth Warren
Senate Republicans are threatening to block any appointee to head the new Consumer Financial Protect Bureau unless it is watered down to serve Wall Street interests. Representative Barney Frank called the Republican move "the worst abuse of the confirmation process I've ever seen" and added, "What it clearly says is that the president will have to make a recess appointment." I agree. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee has written a letter to President Obama supporting Warren's recess appointment, and it's been signed by top academics and...
Finally Some Justice
Via the SGR Today (RALEIGH) -- The United States Department of Justice will allow the prosecution of one-time presidential candidate and former North Carolina Senator John Edwards for the alleged misuse of campaign funds, according to numerous news outlets. I can only hope he has to spend some time in Jail.. Hey John, Don’t drop the soap… You damn Crook...
Rep Stephen A. LaRoque “statement of the day”
A day after a state civil rights leader was arrested at the General Assembly, one North Carolina lawmaker is speaking out on the situation. Rep. Stephen LaRoque, R-Wayne, said state NAACP president Rev. William Barber is a racist. Likewise, LaRoque didn’t limit his criticism to Barber. “I think the modern-day NAACP is a racist organization.” Hey LaRoque, what about the Republican party, they are just as if not more racist then the NAACP could ever...
Dream Act
For Immediate Release
Senators Reintroduce the DREAM Act
May 11, 2011
Washington, D.C. - Today,
Senators Richard Durbin, Harry Reid, and Robert Menendez re-introduced the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Last fall, the DREAM Act passed the House of Representatives, and garnered the support of a majority in the Senate, but was ultimately defeated when the Senate failed to invoke cloture and proceed to debate. The sponsors of the DREAM Act hope to build on last year's momentum and continue to highlight the importance...
Rep Patrick T. McHenry The Jerk of the Day
the tweet about this jerk
Rep. Patrick McHenry's (NC-10) shocking behavior towards Elizabeth Warren, assistant to President Obama http://ow.ly/52KaX
Enough hypocrisy. GOP Rep. #Patrick_McHenry is the liar. Another closeted gay GOPer. http://tinyurl.com/3d7hq6e @MichaelRogersDC
now the story,
Representative Patrick T. McHenry, a North Carolina Republican who is chairman of a subcommittee of the House oversight committee, told Ms. Warren, who is directing...
Rev Barber at the Stop ID Voter Rally
This was the first time I heard him speak publicly and I was amaze. He is a great speaker, and force to be reckon with..
Love his statement about discrimination, take many forms.. and the Voter Id Act one was of those forms..
Many of this afternoon’s opponents delivered variations on that theme, including state NAACP President Rev. William Barber. “It is ridiculous, it is regressive, it is wrong, and it is a political form of racism and classism,”...
What a Douche Bag
The 42,000 to 45,000 North Carolinians cut off from their extended unemployment benefits since April 16 will have to wait longer, if GOP Senate Leader Phil Berger’s move to fix the stalemate is hinged to the state budget process.
Berger, in a press conference this morning, said the restoring the benefits (which are funded solely through federal sources) would have to wait and become part of the new state budget, which is supposed to...
NCGA Twitter Posts
#ncga budget protesters to hold press conference in front of the jail: http://bit.ly/ky6DeP Civil Disobedience defined: http://is.gd/L0X4yC How many other states are NOT facing this? @NBC17 NC #Education dollars at stake in senate #budget. http://bit.ly/kJpbcq #ncga RT @lauraleslie Want to know where #ncga House & Senate budget bills differ? The master list of FRD cheat sheets: http://bit.ly/jRpvK5... 42,000+ long-term unemployed still held...
NAACP leader Barber arrested in legislature
RALEIGH -- The Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP, and six others arrested during Tuesday's session of the N.C. House decided to spend the night in the Wake County jail. As he was being taken into custody, Barber said they were protesting the "extreme, draconian" budgets proposed by legislative Republicans. Both the proposed House and Senate spending plans would make deep cuts to nearly every area of state...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
David LaMotte tells why he is in Jail today
See is note why he was taken to jail today click here. This guys doesn’t mind go to jail for what is right and just.. The point of getting arrested, in this case, for me, is to simply call attention to what is going on Jones Street. I think the vast majority of North Carolinians are good people and people of conscience, and would not stand for what is happening there if they were aware of it. I believe that many of the people who voted for the...
Douche Bag of the Day.
Our Very own House Speaker of the NCGA, Thom Tillis
whom had Rev. Barber of the NAACP removed and arrest today in Raleigh..
Just another GOP ASShole, who is trying to make a name for himself on the back of the Back and other minorities
(Photo credit M. Lew...
NAACP President arrested after protest in House gallery
Here’s the quick report from the Associated Press:RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina General Assembly police arrested six people after a group began chanting in the gallery of the state House minutes before the start of a civil rights rally.
Among the people escorted by police Tuesday were the Rev. William Barber, president of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and second vice president the Rev. Curtis Gatewood. The association had scheduled a protest for the Legislative Building auditorium...
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Racist Tricks of Extreme Ultra-Conservative Republican Tea Party
Immediate Release5 May 2011
Contact: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President, 919-394-8137 Mrs. Amina J. Turner, Executive Director, 919-682-4700 Atty. Al McSurely, Communications Chair, lawyers@mcsurely.com
RE-SEGREGATE THE BLACK VOTERacist Tricks of Extreme Ultra-Conservative Republican Tea Party Politicians Exposed
"The extreme right-wing, ultra-conservative...
