In no particular order of importance —
- Parks Helms may be having second thoughts about not running in November for the Mecklenburg County Commission. Helms darkly whispers about “a Bill James” agenda without him, but I suspect what really is gnawing at him is the very real idea that Nick Mackey supporters will claim that Helms was afraid to face their ire at the ballot-box. Ol’ Parks ain’t going out like that. Legacy: He ran. Away.
- The Libertarian Party needs about 6000 more signatures to get on the ballot in North Carolina. The LP’s candidate for government, Duke poli-sci prof Mike Munger on Hillary Perdue: “She’s running commercials that mostly seem to establish that she was once a child. She was once younger, and that at some points in her life, she’s had some unfortunate haircuts.”
- Gee, the FBI is sniffing around pay-for-play sewer connections in Union County. Do tell. Never understood the Dodge City mentality out there. Everyone was gonna get paid sooner or later. Now it may be lawyers.
- State Rep. Thom Tillis rides to the defense of fellow Republican county delegation member, Rep. Jim Gulley. Gulley’s campaign received a nine-page audit letter from the Board of Elections, which caught the eye of former Gulley staffer Alan Teitleman, who planned on running against Gulley before he relocated to South Carolina. In any event, Gulley has a primary challenger in Edy Brotherton.
- Speaking of primary challenges, State Rep. Tricia Cotham has yet to file in District 100, where she faces a primary challenge from former county commissioner Lloyd Scher. I still maintain that one overlooked angle in the Nick Mackey mess was John Cotham, Tricia’s dad, pushing the county party he used to chair to impress the state Democratic party with fund-raising and organization in hopes of scoring brownie points in Raleigh for her.
That’s all I got. Things are heating up.
