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There’s lots in the daily news of the doings and undoings in the General Assembly and elsewhere, but you may have missed coverage about this new electioneering operation sponsored by the Ayn Rand-wing of the North Carolina business establishment. The mainstream press hasn't noticed yet. Public-interest investigator Greg Flynn reports that these White-Men-With-Too-Much-Money have hired [...]
The Institute for Southern Studies/Facing South reveals the connection between toxic money pouring into NC politics and legislation to increase toxic chemicals pouring into our air. The article draws on a new analysis by Democracy North Carolina of the political muscle of 27 leading polluters and their trade groups. Hint: by themselves, they annually spend [...]
The video purporting to document two non-citizens and a dead man receiving ballots during the NC primary turns out to be an even bigger hoax than we first reported. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas carefully edited out a section of the filming where the voter impersonating a dead person actually requests the ballot in the name [...]
In the midst of Super PAC spending and candidates hustling big-dollar donors, here’s a positive story from North Carolina: Candidates are actually agreeing to accept strict campaign spending limits and to rely only on small donations and a public grant authorized by hundreds of registered voters! Today, the State Board of Elections sent notices to [...]
What’s the gap between registered voters by gender in North Carolina? Among whites, 53.5% of registered voters are women and 46.5% are men – a 7 percentage point gap, according to Democracy NC’s analysis of election data. For African Americans, the gap is much larger: 58% of registered black voters are women and only 42% [...]
US Supreme Court decisions hit home today in two ways (not counting the Court-blessed, corporate-funded slug fest now going on between surrogates of North Carolina’s Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates). A lower court today ruled that the rescue funds provision of NC’s public campaign financing programs are illegal, because of the US Supreme Court’s decision [...]
The New Yorker this week has an in-depth account of the manipulations and blunders that inflated a narrow issue before the US Supreme Court into the now infamous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. The majority opinion didn’t need to make sense – it had 5 of the 9 votes, enough to win; the [...]
Earlier this week, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released a 10-minute video allegedly documenting voter fraud in North Carolina, featuring two examples of non-citizens who voted in past elections. O’Keefe gained national attention for his cleverly edited videos attacking ACORN, and some in the NC media were ready to gobble up his latest offering. Fortunately, [...]
A father in coastal Carteret County writes about his daughter’s hectic week of a senior prom, body piercing, and first time voting - a glimpse into the promising world ahead for us and the value of good parenting. Tucked inside Brad Rich’s story is something else, too: His daughter, Summer, was handed the wrong ballot [...]
Two national stories with NC connections: One, from the Los Angeles Times, dissects the damnable lies spewed forth in political advertisements sponsored by Americans for Prosperity. It’s not an accident that the deceitful ads attack alternative energy production as well as President Obama; the biggest backers of AFP are oil and gas mega-billionaires David and [...]