Sources of wealth
Glad to see the N&O doing some background research. Go read the story for all the details. Lots of interesting tidbits on the sources of wealth of the current crop of gubernatorial candidates.
BILL GRAHAM . . . recently sold a bullet manufacturing company.
RICHARD MOORE . . . one of several grandchildren of the founder of the H.E. Butt Grocery Co. of San Antonio.
BEVERLY PERDUE . . . married to Robert Eaves, a Chapel Hill investor who owns or has owned various businesses, including The Right Stuff Food Stores, which at one time owned more than 100 Starvin Marvin convenience stores.
FRED SMITH . . . a major homebuilder of such subdivisions as Hedingham, Riverwood and Lion's Gate. Also CEO of CC Mangum, a Raleigh-based road and bridge building company.
The only semi-announced candidate without a personal or inherited boatload of money is Bob Orr. But then again, Orr has the Puppetmaster, which gives him access to more money than all the rest of 'em put together. To my knowledge.
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Troubling
The whole damn business of democracy is troubling me right now.
Lott-o money there A
wonder if the founding fathers are turning in their graves?
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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Founding fathers . . .
The more I read about them, the less I think they'd be all that upset. Weren't they the Smiths, Moores and Grahams of the 18th Century?
I almost said something about how they'd be scratching their heads at the strange turns our democracy has taken - but maybe not. Maybe they'd be raking in the government contracting dough like Fred Smith.
the mistake we often make
is assuming they were all the same. I dont just mean the well known fight between Jefferson and Hamilton. I also mean things like keeping Sam Adams out of the constitutional convention because he was too radical. There were definite differences of opinion on almost every issue, and while many were members of the middle, merchant class, not all were.
Draft Brad Miller -- NC Sen ActBlue :::Liddy 44 Brad 33
The sad thing is that you've got to have that kind of money
and the leisure time it gives you to be able to serve the public. No matter if you're red or blue, you've got to have the green, or you're no where. And that sucks.
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It's your democracy; use it.
Ooops.
Forgot to include the rest of the story from the N&O. It's a hoot.
The Founders had one rule! Leave Us alone George! Like today?
Founding fathers . . .*Anglico
The more I read about them, the less I think they'd be all that upset. Weren't they the Smiths, Moores and Grahams of the 18th Century?.*Anglico
You must be reading the present crap or reverse history by the Locke foundation. The founders were brilliant and didn't take any crap off anybody.
I almost said something about how they'd be scratching their heads at the strange turns our democracy has taken - but maybe not. Maybe they'd be raking in the government contracting dough like Fred Smith.*Anglico
Scratching my ass! They would be looking for the rope to hang the present neo-con bastards of today. They were not a bunch of military industrial complex or land barrons who whore themselves out to the lowest bidder. They hock everything they own including the wife and kids to win your right to express yourself. Most likely Fred Smith would have been shove under a wooded toll road and run over by the 100 Ox Hay carts for even thinking he own the post roads of America.
Party Pedigree
Republicans > Whigs > Federalists > Tories. They have always (Lincoln & TR excepted) been the party of aristocratic pretensions.
Democrats > Anti-Federalists > Patriots. The party of "those who work, those who want to work, and those who have finished working" *
* Elizabeth Edwards