Frank Ballance now like a wide receiver stood up over the middle by a defensive back. His whole team wants him down but the speedy GOP defenders ready to pummel him and make him cough up the ball. This issue will dominate NC election politics in 2004 and serve to taint the Democrats much as the Meg Scott Phipps case has done.
If the election were held today Congressman Burr would be defeated by Bowles. However the gentleman from Winston-Salem will come romping home like the Derby winner down the backstretch at the Belmont Stakes -- that is, he will run Bowles down aided in part by a collapse of conservative Democrat support and flocks of minority voters staying home.
The GOP must continue to pound this issue in North Carolina. To do so forces Easley and Basnight to distance themselves from the criminal Balance, thus further alienating eastern North Carolina minority voters -- many of whom are outraged with the current OLF controversy and recent betrayals from Raleigh on this issue.
Ballance's opponent in the 2002 election took pains to avoid the Hyman money laundering issue during the campaign while merely stating that Ballance was "not ready for prime time in Washington."
He was right...
J
Now Ballance will be destroyed -- and only avoid prison by giving up his underlings in the First District. When the smoke clears eastern North Carolina will have experienced Transformational Development (Section five) and the GOP will sweep the ticket in 2004.
Ballance not only ran a political slush fund with the public's money but he also took tens of thousands of dollars from out of state elements that have been tied to the funding of Muslim terrorist organizations overseas. Combined with his illegal influence peddling of USDA grant funds during the past decade, it is easy to see why the Federal government has recently initiated an additional criminal probe.
Frank Ballance should have stayed on Jones Street playing second fiddle to Mark Basnight. Instead this modern day Icarus flew close to the sun and was burned by the Balkan Solution. The NC GOP has their own General Giap -- and he takes no prisoners...
Frank Ballance beaucoup dinky dao...
J