As John Edwards Beats His Wife, Let's Talk About Corruption

The John & Lizzy Edwards saga just gets more and more openly bizarre. At this point, knowing that Elizabeth's capacity to lie/delude herself (if it suits her long term goals) rivals her husband's, it basically boils down just another he-said/she said uber-ugly divorce war . . . with the unprincipled principals fighting over all their lovely money. It's a given that Elizabeth wants the house.

I'm still kicking myself for ever pleading my case to this loser . . . or putting any stock in the opinions of the big blue bloggers in our local ether who held Elizabeth up as some kind of sainted healthcare guru (while they converged to spit on me).

Joe has a post up praising a column by Doug Clark's (at the N&R) . . . critiquing the culture of corruption that seems to have engulfed North Carolina.

Clearly there's been a culture of corruption in Raleigh, he says.

Oh, and it's not confined to Raleigh.

Well yeah, DUH.

Doug and all of the rest of the state's journalists are pretty late to that party. It's why we're at the point where the National Enquirer probably has a really good shot at the Pulitzer.

I dropped a comment at Joe's:

Joe, having been on the wrong end of a lot of the wink & nod routine for twelve years now, I think that what a lot of the people who are so quick to tell the rest of us that we need to "move on" . . . to skip merrily forward . . . and to go along to get along . . . is that many people have been and/or are HURT AND HURT BADLY (either directly or indirectly) by this culture of corruption.

Moreover, moving on along and skipping merrily forward with no thought whatsoever given to the past and genuine accountability is the REASON why corruption has thrived for so long, and is at the verge of bringing this state to its knees.

What happened to me in Asheboro cost me a practice (that I, as a young gun in public service, had literally slaved to build) and hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and potential income. (Despite what Fec would now have you think) there was NO justification for what was done to me - or the way it was done - and NO due process. The whole point of going to Court was to be vindicated and financially restored so I might be able to start all over on my own in the private sector.

The big swindle deprived me of even that. I "won" but I lost. Bigtime.

And/so Asheboro did not lose just one Pediatrician, it lost two (two that were brought there with Federal and state money) . . . and an OB (who could not reconcile what the hospital was saying about providing good Pediatric care - and what it was actually doing).

Legally, what two "non-profit" executives did to a doctor was CRIMINAL. Moreover, it's a crime with NO STATUTE of limitations. And there are supposed to be check & balances. But no one cares. I'm a lone voice in a dark and dirty wilderness. Law enforcement and the politicos/their cronies on the big-bad-Boards have all winked and nodded these particular over-paid, over-rated suits almost to retirement. Meanwhile, I'm supposed to "get over it" and "move on".

What I don't get is that the SAME people who harp endlessly on "truth & reconciliation" and "atonement" (dwelling incessantly on problems of the past that have had their due and that we can do nothing about) . . . the same people who moan and groan about doctor shortages and healthcare reform . . . are the same people that would have me roll over and die - taking an exploding bullet for something that the law could still do something about RIGHT NOW.

You start setting things straight by setting them straight - not pretending they never happened.

It's not just about law enforcement. The same criticisms apply to Doug Clark and the N&R (and the Charlotte/Raleigh newspapers). The press should have been all over my story a very long time ago . . . as a matter of right and wrong, and law & order. Alas, as the slime literally pouring out of Raleigh and Chapel Hill clearly demonstrates, the MSM in this state has been ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL FOR LITERALLY DECADES.

Doug & company are way late to the party. And still, their view is too narrow.

Not getting over it. Not moving on. Until it's set straight.