WRAL in Raleigh reports tonight that Asheboro's Harold Brubaker, will be the "chief" among four Republican co-chairs of the N.C. House Appropriations Committee.
Regular readers will remember how this constituent feels about Mista Speaka: "Religiously Insensitive, Sexist, Puerile, Dead Wrong With His Facts, and DEAD WRONG".
When I needed a real representative to stand up to the "right people" over the wrong that was done to me in public service in Asheboro (Brubaker was "Mista Speaka in Raleigh when all of the badness went down), what I got was a coward only interested in self-preservation. He lost my vote long ago.
As bad a job as the Democrats have done in terms of turning the once-great state of North Carolina into a metaphor for a shipwreck on the Outer Banks, I think it's been a huge mistake for local, hard-core Tea-Party-types to snuggle-up to Republican worms like Harold (entering his 18th term) thinking they'll get any kind of real "change". I fear they've been used (and will continue to be used) as pawns in the never-ending power struggle between the reds and the blues.
Moreover, if Brubaker & company really want to close a nearly 4 billion-dollar black-hole-of-a-budget-gap, it's going to have to be about MORE than holding the line on taxes and "zero-based budgeting". Somebody in Raleigh is going to have to start having hard conversations about ALL of the "third rails" that no one - in either party - has wanted to get near.
And God knows, if "I've got to live in this town" Harold didn't have to guts to do anything more than go-along-to-get-along-with-all-the-right-people in the little burg of Asheboro before, he's NOT the man to start/lead those conversations in Raleigh now.
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