Even Buzz Armfield-of-the-Asheboro-Armfields was grossed out by the brain-
You gotta admit, my suggestions are very memorable;)
I've not commented on Mark Binker's blog in a while (he's the Greensboro N&R's man in Raleigh - apparently its only man). But earlier this week, a post at "Capitol Beat" caught my eye . . . only because my "ex" had recently chewed my ear off - commenting (very disparagingly) on the recent grandstanding of newly-empowered Randolph-County-Republicans - in both Courier Tribune articles and appearances about town.
After decades of Dem rule in Raleigh, the new-big-bad Republican power-brokers (you know, the uber-badasses like Harold Brubaker who were so afraid of Asheboro's "right people" that they couldn't lift a finger to do right by a Pediatrician-done-wrong in state & Federal service) are going to scrutinize the state's funding of "non-profits".
Transparency and accountability are very important to the new regime in Raleigh. The people's money must not be mis-spent.
(You know, like all that state & Federal recruitment money that was blown when Randolph Hospital basically ran two Board-Certified Pediatricians out of Asheboro because Bob Morrison and Steven Eblin didn't want private competition for their wholly-owned controlled-affilliate.)
Given my experience with Randolph Hospital, and the aforementioned nameless/gutless Republicans well-practiced/seeminlgy-permanent case of torticollis when it comes to the amoral/unethical/illegal and expensive-to-the-ordinary-taxpayer actions of Randolph County's biggest "non-profit", my "ex" was furious at the hypocrisy.
I'd quote him, but I'm trying to cut down on the four-letter words. Alas, I shall not be entirely successful today.
Anyway, Mark Binker regurgitated the new party line. Binker, of course, is just one of the blogging journalists at the Greensboro News & Record whose mantra has always been that Mary Johnson needs to "get over" what Asheboro's biggest "non-profit" did to her (under the cover of public charity) . . . and "move on". Mark, the N&R's go-to man in Raleigh, couldn't take a couple of hours to look at the evidence. He couldn't lift a pen or puch a keybord in any fashion that asked a coherent question of the people I've accused of mutiple felonies (perjury), contempt and fraud.
The charges kind of speak to the way "non-profits" use public funds (including bank-rolling bogus SLAPP-suits against doctors who blow the whistle).
Nope. Binker marched in line with his high-minded colleagues, John Robinson . . . and Lex Alexander . . . and, of course, Edward Cone-of-THE-Cones.
And even though I expect that has more to do with his Editors and one of their biggest advertisers - the "non-profit" Greensboro hospital that figures so proiminently in the story of the Asheboro-Pediatrician-who-had-to-be-sacrificed-to-cover-up-what-the-Cone-owned-fake-Neonatologist-did, since I defied my own handlers thirteen years ago to do the right thing by a baby girl (giving up fiscal security - not to mention a decent night's sleep - for a very long time), I've got ZERO use for local journalists who've clearly sold their souls for a paycheck.
From Binker's post:
House lawmakers will begin trying to tally how much money state government gives to nonprofits, Speaker Thom Tillis said Monday night.
“We will most likely announce a focused effort on expenditures to nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations this week just to get a bead what service they’re providing, the extent to which it duplicates a core service that we do internally,” Tillis told reporters.
This is part of an effort to trim the budget and find out if the state is spending money that it could re-direct elsewhere. The state gives millions of dollars to nonprofits. Some are large and well known, such as the Golden LEAF Foundation at the center of the S13 debate. Others are less well known but provide services for particular populations, such as Summit House in Greensboro.
“What we’re trying to do is actually get our arms around the extent to which we’re funding non-governmental organizations and in what areas,” Tillis said. “A lot of that is not necessarily by just looking at the budget. You have to dig deeper to actually see that.”
Gathering this kind of information is tricky for a few reasons. If nonprofit gets a "recurring" sum of money in the budget, it may not show up in the annual budget bills at all despite getting state funding. And in other cases, the legislature gives money to various state agencies that in turn makes grants to various nonprofits.
Tillis said lawmakers had requested additional information for state agencies and that the information would likely be a subject of hearings this spring.
Although this is a budget-cutting exercise, Tillis said there would be some nonprofits that survive the budget axe.
“Clearly there are going to be expenditures there are important and we consider to be worthwhile,” Tillis said. “But you always have to ask the question, is that expenditure worthy of priority over all these other things we know are important like funding classrooms, funding teachers and those sorts of things. That’s how we’re trying to get people to look at the tough trade-offs and make that more tangible to the average voter.”
You know, there just come a time when you have to call the journalists and the politicians on their HYPOCRITICAL, DO-NOTHING BULLSHIT:
Are they going to look at the "non-profit" hospitals, Mark - including the very big guns - or is that going to get glossed over?
And while they're looking at "non-profits" are they going to consider any legislation that might make it easier to look at a "non-profit's" books (you know, past the standard 3 years) and inner workings (like identifying Board and corporate members)? Or perhaps hold them accountable when they LIE to the public - especially when they do it in Court?
Because there's precious little on the state's books now to compel the Attorney General or Secretary of State to do anything. "Transparency and accountability" for non-profits in this state is a pathetic joke.
I'm asking because these are the kinds of "little things" I've had a lot of trouble with down in Asheboro . . . "ancient history" that your newspaper has deemed irrelevant to the problems of the day . . . white-collar crime that clearly IS relevant to the issues of the day.
Unless you think it's okay for a small town, non-profit hosptial CEO to pull down $700,000/year . . . well over 3 or 4 times the salary the same hosptial would pay a Pediatrician.
Robert Morrison, you see, is so much more "important and worthwhile" in the great scheme of things. It takes a lot of taxpayer dollars to dance like a celebrity once a year.
Mark Binker has not deemed it necessary to respond to my comment . . . a continuation of the silent treatment (which included de-linking blogs and banning commenters) that the progressive Greensboro blogging elite dish out to those who call them on their bullshit . . . when they're not calling you a "whack-job" or cozying up to cyber-stalkers.
The theory is that dehumanizing, and marginalizing and ignoring people-telling-the-ugly-truth about how the world works (and maybe even more significantly how YOU work) always makes them give up and go away.
It's worked like a charm for Randolph Hospital;)
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