Realize this is the understatement of the new year —but neither President Obama nor Gov.Pat McCrory have been inspiring much confidence lately.
While the N&R’s Doug Clark is happy that McCrory is happy over President Obama’s latest federal program, he questions McCrory’s statement that people come to North Carolina for the unemployment benefits:
So, for the governor’s statement that “we were having a lot of people move here, frankly, from other areas to get unemployment” to be true, these people would first have to find a job here, work in two or more quarters, then lose the job through no fault of their own.
I have a hard time believing that “a lot of people” were able to pull that off, and I have a harder time understanding why the governor would say that — especially since his office can’t provide any evidence to support it.
That’s not an attack on the governor. It’s an effort to set the record straight on a very important subject.
I’ve known a lot of Yankees and Midwesterners —even a few Californians— who’ve moved here to North Carolina, but none of them said it was for the unemployment benefits —mostly it’s for the warm weather.
As for the process of filling former Rep. Mel Watt’s seat, for which McCrory is taking heat, a Wake Forest University political science professor dismisses the “notion that it is being done for partisan advantage.” Or for that matter racial reasons –face it— if the Rev. William Barber is weighing in—- it’s racial.
But that said, Meck Deck cuts McCrory no slack for making a poor first impression when explaining the logic behind the election schedule. With such a leadership vacuum, you have to wonder about the future of our state and our country.
