Extremist candidate update
This week's extremist legislative candidate update brings us Republican Glen Bradley, a candidate for the state House in District 49. That seat is currently held by Democrat John May, who was appointed this past spring to replace longtime House member Lucy Allen, who resigned to take a seat on the state Utilities Commission.
Bradley's website has plenty of interesting information, including his pledge to work in the General Assembly for the repeal of the 17th amendment to the constitution that provides for the election of Senators by popular vote.
Bradley wants to take away the right of people to vote for their Senators and have the General Assembly select the state's two U.S. Senators, the way the Constitution originally intended.
There are also a number of links on his website to political groups under the heading "Glen Recommends." The site explains that the groups are ones that "Glen Bradley actively supports, and he enthusiastically recommends them to everybody."
Included among them is the John Birch Society, the long time radical right-wing fringe group whose founder Robert Welch famously called President Dwight D. Eisenhower a "conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy."
There have been no sightings yet of bumper stickers reading "Bradley the Bircher for the State House," but we'll keep you posted.
A lot can change in four years
The folks in Lockeville seemed to have changed their mind about the state's high risk insurance pool or at least how it was originally financed.
This week Locke budget man Joe Coletti was quoted in a story by a fellow Locker saying that the high risk pool was created by the General Assembly made sense the way it was funded because "it is not being paid for by our taxpayer's pocket."
Here's Coletti in 2006 about the prospects for the high risk pool. "The state of North Carolina should finance any high-risk pool entirely through the General Fund and existing taxes…"
Use tax money, don't use tax money. It all depends on the year.
From the Fringe
This week's From the Fringe brings us a few familiar faces. Bob Smith of the Lockers Wilmington outpost attended a meeting of Americans for the Prosperous recently at which House Minority Paul Stam was the featured speaker.
Smith was so taken with Stam's performance that he described him as "well-dressed, articulate, and politically savvy. Apparently sartorial splendor has emerged as another conservative weapon in November.
Leslee Kulba in the Western wing of Locke land mentions this weekend's right-wing rally in Washington featuring the bizarre Glenn Beck as a prominent speaker and laments that everybody can't make it "to be counted with other citizens who are fed up with unresponsive government pretending you're too stupid to know their welfare statist, socialist maneuvers don't belong in this Republic."
Welfare statists and socialists have taken over of course. Glenn Beck will point the way to the Promised Land.
From the Fringe favorite George Leef is back on his hating New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wagon, this week accusing the Nobel Prize winning economist of believing that "authoritarianism is good."
That's right George, if there's one thing Paul Krugman is known for, it's his passionate defense of authoritarianism.
Leef also can't resist another absurd and sweeping generalization about college, with more of his implied conspiracy theory about the Marxist brainwashing of our youth by the commie professors.
Leef laments that "most graduates leave with some degree of hostility toward business, thanks to professors who harbor animosity toward capitalism."
Dr. Karen Pelasek makes the Follies with her own startling hyperbole in her negative review of a recent article in The New Yorker by award-winning reporter Jane Mayer about the campaign against Obama by the billionaire Koch brothers.
As part of her review, Pelasek casually provides us with this piece of insanity. "Freedom and progressivism are incompatible."
That may come as a shock to progressives, that they are pro-slavery of all kinds, but there it is you all you freedom haters.
