That’s Republican city councilman Andy Dulin tweeting his outlook under Mayor Anthony Foxx and pledging “balance” from his approach. Let’s test that.
Suppose President Barack Obama heeds Mayor Foxx’s pleas that Charlotte “needs” the next CEO for Bank of America to locate in Charlotte and the feds essentially order BofA to do just that. Do Dulin and other local GOPers oppose that?
What about some sort of state and local incentive package to hand to BofA if they keep the CEO’s office in Charlotte? Is this a move to the hard left that Dulin and Republicans will oppose? As we speak the Charlotte Rent Seekers Guild is scurrying about backstage, with Guild Master Bob Morgan already citing the incentive horror handed broke-down GMAC as something to emulate.
Would Dulin oppose a quarter-cent sale tax hike effort the kind we mentioned yesterday? A city budget in the spring larger than the one the city operated on this year? This whole left-right thing starts to break down a little with specifics, doesn’t it?
Bonus Chuckle: Ooow. Foxx talked to Obama about BofA. No one — least of all at the Uptown paper of record — seems to understand that BofA’s “marketing director” Anne Finucane in Boston has long been a kingmaker at BofA and Barney Frank is in her ear non-stop. If I am trying to make things happen at BofA to my liking, I’d much rather talk to Finucane than Obama.
