The Uptown crowd is positively giddy that they managed to peel off state Sen. Bob Rucho from Ric Killian’s bid to reject Uncle Sucker dollars for train futzing. Don’t know the current state of the spin — don’t care — but this move has been in the works for some time.

The truly fascinating thing is that thus far Pat McCrory has managed to avoid taking a position on the matter. Watch that end in 3…2…1…