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Recently Bi-Lo stores has tried to introduce a store card managed by Compucredit which is a plastic equivalent of payday lending. After an outcry Bi-Lo has delayed, but not stopped, plans for implementation in NC. Compucredit sees this as the thin edge of a wedge for their sub-prime lending but it is essentially a subterfuge for usurious payday lending.

Payday lending money has been an insidious influence in state politics. Though payday lending has been banned it keeps coming back like a character in a bad horror movie.

Jerry Conner's attorneys did not attend the clemency hearing today. Read the explanation just posted over at jerryconner.blogspot.com

I just wanted to highlight the post below about Jerry Connor, and to offer this compilation of contact information (based in part on attorney Mark Kleinschmidt's work at Justice for Connor):

• Contact Mike Easley
• Contact AG Roy Cooper
• Use the BlueNC form to contact your state Senator
• Use the BlueNC form to contact your state Representative
• Contact House and Senate leadership and the members of the House Capital Punishment Study Commission
• Call Gates County Frank Parrish's office: (252) 331-4743
• Write a letter to the editor.

Earlier today I went out to my mailbox to get our mail. I saw a very official looking envelope that had printed "Return Enclosed" at the bottom as if it were a tax return. While it was addressed to my husband, we commonly open each other's mail if it has to do with taxes. It wasn't until I pulled out the contents of the envelope that I realized it was a fundraiser. My blood started to boil.

Elizabeth Dole sent out an NRSC fundraiser intentionally disguised as a "Return" and sent to "U.S. Individual Resident". Upon a quick second look I did see that the return address had the American Eagle and Elizabeth Dole's name at the top of the envelope. Someone else might honestly think that this was an official notification from the government. Especially, an elderly person or a new registrant who hasn't been politically active in the past.

Links to documents below the fold....