Art Pope, the right-wing extremist, multimillionaire owner of low-end retail outlets, Roses and Maxway stores, in eastern North Carolina, spent $2.2 million on local legislative races in 2010 and flipped the N.C. Legislature from blue to red for the first since 1870.
Jane Mayer profiles him in the New Yorker:
May 21, 2012
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One of the casualties of the tea party takeover last year was the North Carolina Legislature, where Republicans gained control for the first time in over a century. Since then, the tea bagger brigade has done its best to turn North Carolina, historically the [...]
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Westboro Baptist Church, a group with a history of staging protests at funerals and issuing anti-gay statements, is planning to picket the Saturday funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.
The group said it will picket outside Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh from 12:15 until 1 p.m. when the funeral is scheduled to begin.
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fter sneeringly referring to President Obama as “a charismatic guy with a teleprompter” in February, Sarah Palin apparently required two of the prompting devices when she delivered the keynote address to the National Rifle Association convention in Charlotte yesterday.
VIDEOYou can hear Palin’s speech via the videos here. (Warning: Her voice has been known to cause [...]
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