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October 13, 2005
Mike Easley - NC's Jimmy Carter
North Carolina's Governor Mike Easley is a self-serving, camera-hogging, intellectual lightweight. It's really sad. His main qualification for being elected in the first place was that he used public funds to put his own face on TV across the state while he was our useless Attorney General. At no time during his governorship has he distinguished himself in any way except to raise taxes and fight for more money out of our pockets through a lottery. The only ideal you can identify that Easley holds is that more of YOUR money should become state money.
Easley has done other things, of course. North Carolina is foremost in the nation for making citizen's lives harder to make it look like something is being done about meth labs. Thanks to Easley and his ilk, the law-abiding among us are required to buy our cold medicine from behind the counter at the pharmacy. We also have higher-paid state employees. Wheee!
Mike Adams, today, has a bit to say about Mike Easley's veto of a bill that would have helped North Carolina reach its needed number of teachers in the future. The bill would have labelled North Carolina teachers as "highly qualified" if they had achieved that distinction in another state. Simply stated, if you're "highly qualified" in one of the other 49 states, you should be at least "highly qualified" in one of the WORST education states in the nation, right? Easley doesn't think so. He thinks such a move would make North Carolina's educational standards the lowest in the nation. That doesn't even logically make sense. Obviously, he was a good student of public education.
This brain-dead moron actually got re-elected, too. Of course, I blame that on North Carolina's Republican Party, which seems to be as incompetent at getting elected in this state as the Democrats are at running it.
There is hope, though. Easley is a Governor in the same vein that Jimmy Carter was President. He's useless, and has done nothing good to distinguish himself in history. He may turn out to be one of the top-three things to ever happen to the North Carolina GOP in decades.
Posted by Lockjaw at October 13, 2005 6:04 AM
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And have you noticed that Roy Cooper is attempting to follow EXACTLY in his footsteps?
Posted by: Ogre at October 13, 2005 9:57 AM
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