• Welcome to OGBoards 10.0, keep in mind that we will be making LOTS of changes to smooth out the experience here and make it as close as possible functionally to the old software, but feel free to drop suggestions or requests in the Tech Support subforum!

Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

The GOP is blatantly taking advantage of the ignorance of their supporters.
 
When desperate, there is no bar that 'pubs will not slither under. Remember the "there's no God" commercial for Dole in 08?

Looks like they know Pat the pussy is going down.
 
McCrory suspected of using taxpayer money for political travel
http://www.wbtv.com/story/33613488/...-mccrorys-political-travel?clienttype=generic

Flight logs, NCDOT bills and other calculations done by On Your Side Investigates (in two instances where a flight manifest or NCDOT bill was not provided, we researched the average flight time between the departure and arrival cities to determine the number of flight hours) show the six RGA trips taken by McCrory on state aircraft cost a total of $62,697.


A review of the RGA’s itemized tax disclosures found that the group only reimbursed the North Carolina Department of Transportation $15,459 for use of state aircraft over three payments.
All three payments appear to coincide with trips by McCrory on state aircraft to RGA events but none of the payments cover the full cost of the plane’s use.
Click to expand...
 
JamesSokolove said:
There is no appreciation from this crowd for Pat making NC great again before making things great again was cool.
Click to expand...

Uptown CLT is significantly nicer and more modern now than it was 20 years ago. McCrory deserves credit for some of that. Bizarre that he got snookered by social conservative pols who wanted to put CLT in its place and have dragged the entire state down. Cost jobs, sporting events, McCrory's career, expedited transgender rights nationally by a decade, and may indirectly cost the GOP the WH, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?

Not like the NC GOP couldn't have anticipated this. They knew Anendment One was a temporary band aid, so they put it on the ballot during the 2012 GOP primary rather than the general election. No other swing states will follow NC over the cliff and take the HB2 corporate hit.
 
FuckmouthedRube said:
Uptown CLT is significantly nicer and more modern now than it was 20 years ago. McCrory deserves credit for some of that. Bizarre that he got snookered by social conservative pols who wanted to put CLT in its place and have dragged the entire state down. Cost jobs, sporting events, McCrory's career, expedited transgender rights nationally by a decade, and may indirectly cost the GOP the WH, the Senate, and the Supreme Court. Other than that, how was the play, Mrs Lincoln?

Not like the NC GOP couldn't have anticipated this. They knew Anendment One was a temporary band aid, so they put it on the ballot during the 2012 GOP primary rather than the general election. No other swing states will follow NC over the cliff and take the HB2 corporate hit.
Click to expand...

Meh. Pretty much every city in America - including places like Detroit and Cleveland - have seen major improvements in their urban cores during the past 20 years. It's part of a major long-term shift back to the urban core driven by changing housing and transportation preferences of Gen X-Y and Millennials. Local governments can certainly do things to impede or support that trend, but it's hard for me to give credit to any given Charlotte politician for this trend. Charlotte has done a hell of a lot of sprawling in the past 20 years, too, so if Pat gets points for Uptown he loses points for continuing to subsidize massive low-density sprawl that has taken over seemingly most of Mecklenburg County. /end urban planning nerd rant
 
Lost in all of the HB2 noise and crime lab he said/he said, the clusterphuck known as the I-77 toll project churns on, delaying already bad traffic and promising no financial return for at least the rest of my lifetime.
 
Dallas Woodhouse makes an ass of himself on MSNBC.

woodhouse%20msnbc

North Carolina Republican Party Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse on MSNBC Nov. 3, 2016 suggested Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, “if elected, could have these on inauguration day,” referring to a set of handcuffs.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article112366242.html#storylink=cpy
 
Deacon923 said:
Meh. Pretty much every city in America - including places like Detroit and Cleveland - have seen major improvements in their urban cores during the past 20 years. It's part of a major long-term shift back to the urban core driven by changing housing and transportation preferences of Gen X-Y and Millennials. Local governments can certainly do things to impede or support that trend, but it's hard for me to give credit to any given Charlotte politician for this trend. Charlotte has done a hell of a lot of sprawling in the past 20 years, too, so if Pat gets points for Uptown he loses points for continuing to subsidize massive low-density sprawl that has taken over seemingly most of Mecklenburg County. /end urban planning nerd rant
Click to expand...

Pat was the Mayor of Charlotte, not Mecklenburg County, and while there was still some sprawl left to occur within the city limits, it's the towns where most of it has occurred. Ballantyne and Providence Country Club precede Pat as Mayor.

And I'd give Hugh McColl more credit than Pat for Uptown's resurgence.
 
BiffTannen said:
Dallas Woodhouse makes an ass of himself on MSNBC.

woodhouse%20msnbc

North Carolina Republican Party Executive Director Dallas Woodhouse on MSNBC Nov. 3, 2016 suggested Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, “if elected, could have these on inauguration day,” referring to a set of handcuffs.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article112366242.html#storylink=cpy
Click to expand...

Agree with Woodhouse. Would make excellent jewelry for Hillary and be oh so appropriate.
 
Props to the photographer who caught this picture of McCrory while he voted today.

14992070_10154506265475115_1318741529714218690_n.jpg
 
The state GOP is so incredibly stupid.

 
NC is the one state that tried to rig the election. They may have done it.
 
What a shock it is that Trump and his followers aren't bitching about the state that succeeded in rigging the election.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top