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[Mira]

Extreme Bills make NC Joke fodder by
Scott Sexton
Winston-Salem Journal

The photo spoke for itself: Pat McCrory walking back into a restaurant in Kernersville holding up the utensil that he had accidentally pocketed while inhaling some cake. He wanted to make a show of returning it.
After a rough first couple of weeks on the job with some of the ideas pushed by the wingnuts in his own party, the new Republican governor wouldn’t have been blamed had he carried it back to Raleigh with him. That way, he could have put a fork in some of the nonsense that made North Carolina the butt of more than a few jokes on the national stage.

As one pundit put it, McCrory is being treated by legislators as their junior partner in a tea party crusade.
That’s not the spot in which a rookie governor wants to find himself.

As is often the case in Raleigh, the fun begins with the opening of bill filing. Just like walking into a voting booth or starting a car, there is no IQ test required...........................

all the rest is here:

http://www.journalnow.com/news/columnists/scott_sexton/article_9d95ca30-a0a7-11e2-a83e-0019bb30f31a.html

and then to illustrate what I hope you will have read is a visual from John Cole


(that's me standing there in my old orange sweater)