I actually thought that this was a Republican, since Demonicrats rarely pay the price for corruption.
Maybe he'll end up as Ray Nagin's cellmate.
Never trust anyone who goes into elected office as their first job. They are looking to be corrupt.
The Charlotte Observer’s ‘coverage,’ such as it is, has been of the ‘he was a good guy to me, he must have gone off the rails’ variety.
Rather than focus on Cannon who is still very much alive and very much guilty, they run stories on those who interacted with him as if he were deceased and memories are all that remain. Invariably, the memories are edited to include as many positives as negatives. This is cognitive dissonance on a grand scale, not least because they viewed him as the Barack Obama of Charlotte and a possible successor on the national stage. It was no accident that the DNC chose Charlotte for the convention and of course he was a key player.
This unintentionally hilarious headline may summarize their coverage:
‘Strip-club owner Slim Baucom on Patrick Cannon: ‘He was a good friend’
The judge couldn’t help himself. ‘You’re a good man, a very good man.’
Oh really? Then why are you about sentence this ‘good man’ to a prison sentence?
Political corruption stories that do not identify the villain as a Republican in the first sentence signify that the crook was a Democrat.
NC seems extraordinarily corrupt. When I lived there it was amazing how often the news would report a govt official was under investigation/being charged/being convicted/going to jail/getting out of jail only to recycle. I think the people of that state like their corruption and corrupt officials a bit too much. I found it over taxed and not very livable.
And yet even with this corruption, the polls all show Democrats still winning the Senate seat.
If this guy was a Repub, the democrats would wrap this guy around the neck of the senate candidate and would win by ten points.
Are Republicans in NC afraid of calling out corrupt politicians? Take this guy (but don’t show his picture, God fobid) and few others Democrat liars, make an ad about the “Culture of the Democrat party” and its landslide city.
Is the RNC really this out of touch?
Another fake Democrat “rising star.”