Thursday, September 2, 2010

Real Jobs NC, the 527 committee backed by Art Pope, Fred Eshelman and the national Republican Party, has begun sending tons of attack-ad mailers to voters in the districts of several state House Democrats who face tight elections. (See August 18 LINK entry.) Mark Binker of the Greensboro News & Record looks into the claims made in the mailers attacking Rep. Hugh Holliman and finds they use the wrong dollar amounts, cite the wrong legislation, attack laws endorsed by plenty of Republican legislators, but still have some factual basis. It would be interesting to see how Rep. Jeff Barnhart and Sen. Fletcher Hartsell voted on the measures that Real Jobs NC finds so loathsome; the two Cabarrus county Republican legislators are officers of RightChange.com Inc., which Fred Eshelman heads and which gave $100,000 to Real Jobs NC.