The Tarheel Hydra

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The Tarheel Hydra

Posted on October 31, 2014 by The Political Hat

The AoSHQ Decision Desk has a post about how the Democrats are playing the long game in North Carolina, in an attempt to turn this state a deep Democrat blue.

 

 

“When the dust settles, Democrat forces will have spent upwards of $70 million in the North Carolina Senate race over the 2014 cycle. While perhaps an accurate reflection of the stakes, this outsized investment has little to do with the Senate, and even less to do with Kay Hagan. Instead it marks the opening salvo of 2016- a not so subtle attempt to break the back of the GOP before the election even begins.

“The calculation is not without merit.

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The Progressive Hydra

Posted on March 1, 2013 by The Political Hat

The Progressive left’s multi-faceted attack on America involved separate organizations that mutually reinforce each other and forward a common cause, or at least direction for society. The trinity of colleges & public schools, the news media, and the entertainment industry is one example, as is the Stand Alone Complex that enables the otherwise uninformed to be used as unwitting political tools.

 

Labor Union Reports discusses a prime example of this over at RedState. A leaked memo from the shadowy coordinating group called Blueprint NC (North Carolina) has shown light on how the Who’s Who of Progressive North Carolina interest groups and foundations have been partnering to “Eviscerate, Mitigate, Litigate, Cogitate, and Agitate” in order to achieve their goals.

 

http://politicalhat.com/2013/03/01/the-progressive-hydra/

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Why Did The Charlotte Observer Memory-Hole A Story On Kay Hagan’s Conflict Of Interest?

NOVEMBER 3, 2014 By Patrick Popehat

Admittedly, education is a far more appealing wedge issue than claiming one’s opponent plans to ban condoms, but lurking beneath the surface of the Hagan-Tillis race is a troubling ethics issue, one that has gone virtually unreported by North Carolina’s two largest newspapers, the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News and Observer: that Kay Hagan’s family, including her attorney husband “Chip” Hagan, her son, and her son-in-law, made out like bandits under the 2009 federal “stimulus” bill championed by Senator Hagan, receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars to renovate buildings owned by their companies through solar power companies which, coincidentally, were also owned by the Hagan family. Instead,coverage of this potential conflict of interest, in which Hagan’s family may have benefitted from her vote and her political connections, has been left to the tiny Carolina Journal, a blog run by North Carolina’s economic libertarian John Locke Foundation, which has run rings around the state’s larger papers in coverage of this race.

By this morning, the story had been memory-holed. http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/03/why-did-the-charlotte-observer-memory-hole-a-story-on-kay-hagans-conflict-of-interest/

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