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Visions of Art Pope dancing in their dope-addled, near-empty heads ...

Published: Thursday, July 24th, 2014 @ 11:52 am
By: Brant Clifton ( More Entries )

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    Publisher's note: Brant Clifton cast a bright light on the indelible hypocrisy of liberal argument in his "bare knuckles" Conservative online publication known as The Daily Haymaker.

    It's really sad listening to the folks around the drum circle moaning about Art Pope. I've actually communicated with Art Pope. He is a guy who has inherited a lot of money. He's nowhere near the political mastermind that the Carrboro crowd makes him out to be.

    In 1992, Pope couldn't get himself elected lieutenant governor. Yet, we're told he is an evil mastermind with an agenda for controlling the state and the country.

    In today's nonsense dump from McClatchy, we get an "article" about "dozens" protesting Pope at a Maxway store in Durham. If you click on the link, you will see the byline is "staff reports." As I recall from my days in the drive-by media, "staff reports" is a fancy way of saying: "We did no reporting whatsoever here. We pretty much just transcribed a release somebody sent us." So, we really have no idea if there were really DOZENS or just two bag ladies paid to hold signs. (Or ANYBODY AT ALL.)

    *But, But, but — It's not right for rich people like Art Pope and THEKOCHBROTHERS to be allowed to BUY our government!*

    In response to that kind of whining from the castrati, one can simply turn to this compilation of the top all-time political donors from 1989-2014. FOURTEEN of the TOP TWENTY are overwhelmingly, die-hard Democrats. ONLY TWO of the top twenty have a Republican tilt.

    The Koch Brothers are at #58 and The Club for Growth is at #62. (Art Pope and Variety Wholesalers, his company, are nowhere to be found on this list.) It looks to me that we righties have more to complain about when it comes to influence-buying in politics.

    We did find some info on Pope and his company. Variety Wholesalers gave the NCGOP $2,500 in 2013 and $10,000 in 2014. Wow. $12,500 vs. over $113 million from ActBlue to lefties. And the media and their lefty pals are bent out of shape about Pope.

    Pope is merely the governor's budget director. He crafts a budget document that legislators rip to shreds upon arrival. Yet, The Washington Post gives Pope credit for conservative legislation that passed the General Assembly and Gov. Pat McCrory, Pope's boss, went along with reluctantly.

    National Democrats seem to be slowly and quietly backing off of the whole demonization thing of The Koch brothers. Most people don't know who they are anyway. And those who DO can't understand why two big-time job creators should be hated.

    Art Pope is a smart guy. It's good that someone with his acumen is advising Gov. Pat.

    But Art Pope could close up his wallet and go away, never to be seen again, and it wouldn't make a dent in Raleigh's influence-buying and peddling game.

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Gene Scarborough said:

( July 25th, 2014 @ 10:07 am )

I see much "subtle put-down" in this article. To call the Liberal side of the political equation "castrati" is simply, "They have their gonads removed and carry them in a pouch over their shoulder or around their neck and speak in squeaky voices."

This kind of finger-pointing does NOTHING to resolve the great divide now keeping NC from being the balanced and thinking state is was known to be in years past. The actions of Republican leadership in the majority in recent years has meant: Mental Patients flushed into communities / Teachers without pay raises or sufficient funds to have a progressive classroom / an attempt to impose tolls on Ferries (Bayview/Aurora is within my eyesight) / lower taxes on the rich and corps to the point we can't balance a budget / etc.

I am an Independent voter by trade. I registered Democrat just to get a shot at the primary election. I am a small businessman suffering from the lack of money to do tree work in Beaufort County / suffering from the Recession (now going long enough to qualify as Depression) with economists predicting another bust of the bubble on Wall Street / with a BC property tax inflated by 30% of real value~~~along with all other residents.

The wealth of Big Oil has my diesel fuel costing 20% more than gas from a product coming off the refinery 20% before it and for that much less cost to the refiner. Every farmer, trucker, heavy equipment operator is having to pass the excess cost to their customers so you pay more for groceries to cover just that one aspect of GREED.

I won't mention ash dumps polluting our rivers and streams / crazy regulation of our Pamlico Sound Fishery / many other "stupid things" in my view being done from Raleigh.

Quit pretending and fighting. Put aside the issues of Party lines. For God's sake, start helping rather than hurting our good State and this good country with hate and non-thinking obsessive attempts to "win."