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The Southern Political Report indicates that Congressman Brad Miller (NC-13) will not run for Senate in 2010. Let's see, who does that leave?

Public Policy Polling has released a poll with a hypothetical head-to-head match up between Senator Richard Burr and N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper. If the election were held today it appears that Roy Cooper would run away with it.

A mysterious new-to-blogging activist has caught the attention of Dome with a Draft Cooper website. I love stuff like this. Anyone doing anything to encourage good, smart people to run for office is a good idea. Kudos to Dome for covering it.

The Boyce family has been practicing law in Wake County for decades now. Gene Boyce has worked in his profession for nearly half a century, and even served as counsel to Sen. Sam J. Ervin during the Watergate hearings in the early 1970s.

Attorney General Roy Cooper has reversed his stance on the right of undocumented students to attend our state's Community Colleges.

According to the N&O:

AG now says college OK for illegals

RALEIGH - The state Attorney General's Office says it's legal for the N.C. Community College System to admit illegal immigrants.

That advice, given to the colleges Thursday and made public today, represents a reversal for the office of Attorney General Roy Cooper, which advised the colleges in May to bar illegal immigrants from degree programs. The colleges took that advice and issued a new policy prohibiting illegal immigrants from enrolling, even at out-of-state tuition rates. Cooper's office said at the time that post-secondary education might qualify as a public benefit to which illegal immigrants are not entitled under federal law.

This is great news for the students that I work with. I'm very happy. And I think I owe our leadership in the General Assembly an apology of sorts...

It is campaign season time now, as it is every four years. But one situation from the 2000 election still remains unresolved, and incredibly it appears likely to stay that way even beyond this November.

A while back I thought Roy Cooper was a pretty solid citizen. I contributed to his campaign and even helped drum up support in a couple of fundraising events. But that was then.

Cooper's decision last week to intervene in the debate over undocumented immigrants and higher education was just plain dumb, as has been widely discussed. But it's hard to understand why he has to get all petulant just because the mean old media won't play stenographer for him. That's flat-out embarrassing.