mike easley

We needed a new Open Thread

I was on CNN.com, looking at an article about potential ticket-mates for Barack Obama, and guess who I saw.

Shouldn't $1.6 million dollars of your hard earned North Carolina tax money give you the right to know and refuse exposure to hazardous pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals? If Governor Easley can spend $1.6 million tax payer dollars on a pesticide plan to protect farmworkers shouldn't the plan also include protecting the citizens of North Carolina as well. The plan should be comprehensive and not discriminate between industries, companies, workers, and citizens. Tell the Director of the State Office of Rural Health and Community Care, Mr. John Price to implement a plan that protects everyone's right to know when being exposed to hazardous pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals.

Cross-posted at dKos

I'm trying to get my head around Mike Easley's endorsement of Hillary Clinton. Quite frankly, I'm mystified.

As most of us know, Hillary on the top of the ticket effectively cedes most of the former Confederacy (except for Virginia and Florida) to McCain. Obama, on the other hand, has committed to fighting for North Carolina in November. I would think that this would be a no-brainer for the de facto leader of the North Carolina Democratic Party. He should have his finger on the pulse of this state.

Leslie's great post about the role of super delegates reminded me of a Dome story about a governor who apparently considers himself wiser than the people who elected him.

Gov. Mike Easley will not base his endorsement on the state vote. At a meeting of the National Governors Association, Easley said he did not expect super delegates to decide the Democratic nomination, according to Media General News Service.

But if they do, he said he will not base his vote at the Democratic national convention for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton on how North Carolina Democrats vote in the primary.

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that he and seven other governors are suing the Shrub for not letting the states expand their State Children’s Health Insurance Programs. Something tells me that there's another governor who used to be an attorney general that needs to join this suit--namely, our governor, Mike Easley.

When a representative for a community fails to protect his constituants but rather protects the people of another state at the expense of his own, then he needs to be called out for this action.

Mikey, you are not giving us in NE NC a warm fuzzy that you care about us. Please prove me wrong.

It looks like a letter-writing kind of day.

Very glad to see this. Thanks, Governor Easley. You did the right thing.