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		<title>Priorities</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/17/priorities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your North Carolina General Assembly is back for their short session. You can see Nelda Holder&#8217;s preview of the session here. These headlines jumped off the page yesterday and today:
In North Carolina, the GOP is intent on maintaining short-sighted cuts to our children&#8217;s education system, but increasing revenue for roads is a-ok. WRAL:
&#8220;My guess is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCDP Hijinks in Greensboro</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/13/ncdp-hijinks-in-greensboro/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/13/ncdp-hijinks-in-greensboro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 22:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday’s events in Greensboro proved it takes more than business acumen and holding elective office to control a rowdy state Democratic Party meeting. It takes gravitas, stage presence, and experience &#8212; more than just the support of top party elected officials. 
When outgoing North Carolina Democratic state chairman, David Parker, resigned  as promised at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Garden Variety 501(c)3</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/12/not-your-garden-variety-501c3/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/12/not-your-garden-variety-501c3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After finding that two of Thom Tillis&#8217; staff members were literally in bed with lobbyists, it makes perfect sense to investigate whether ALEC is in flagrante delicto with legislators. News and Observer:
An advocacy group is asking Attorney General Roy Cooper to investigate the tax status of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Candy</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/01/sex-and-candy/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/05/01/sex-and-candy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 02:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another lobbyist sex scandal in Speaker Thom Tillis&#8217; office. Nothing to see here.
House Speaker Thom Tillis said Tuesday a second staff member will resign this week after admitting to having an inappropriate romantic relationship with a lobbyist.
Tillis would not identify the staff member or the lobbyist, but he provided enough details to indicate that they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling a Spade a Spade</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/29/calling-a-spade-a-spade/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/29/calling-a-spade-a-spade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Asheville Citizen-Times, John Boyle says,
&#8220;After observing the last year or so in local politics, I’m going to throw this out there: It looks to me like conservative Republicans are exacting their pound of flesh from Asheville.&#8221;
I say,
&#8220;By preferring historical interpretations to present realities, the study committee used a rear-view mirror to drive public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Just Say It</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/28/lets-just-say-it/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/28/lets-just-say-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend reading this entire article, though you&#8217;ll run the risk of having some area Republicans and equivalency fetishists gnash their teeth when you share it with them.
Thomas E. Mann is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Norman J. Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. This essay is adapted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charles Thomas, Tillis&#8217; Chief of Staff, Resigns</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/27/charles-thomas-tillis-chief-of-staff-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/27/charles-thomas-tillis-chief-of-staff-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hat tip to Thunder Pig.
News and Observer:
The chief of staff to state House Speaker Thom Tillis has been in an intimate relationship with a lobbyist for the North Carolina Home Builders Association, a special interest group that often seeks help from the legislature and provides money to political campaigns across the state.
Charles Thomas, Tillis’ chief [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delicious Tort Reform</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/17/delicious-tort-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/17/delicious-tort-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shifting gears a little, I read this story yesterday and thought it was interesting despite the fact it had nothing to do with The Gays or the water system. I don&#8217;t fully understand it all but thought I would bring it forward for some discussion here in the public square. So many smart people on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Morning Music</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/15/sunday-morning-music-126/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/15/sunday-morning-music-126/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 04:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now, for your Sunday Morning Music pleasure&#8230; here&#8217;s Councilman Gordon Smith (and the Barry Summers Trio) with that delightful Bossa Nova standard, Água de Beber.
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		<title>Rep. Tim Moffitt: Busy, busy, busy</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/12/rep-tim-moffitt-busy-busy-busy/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/12/rep-tim-moffitt-busy-busy-busy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Tim Moffitt, R-Buncombe, has been a busy fellow. A privatization study committee he is on has strayed from studying into legislating. WRAL reports:
The Republican-led House Select Committee on State-Owned Assets was supposed to consider the sale of some of the state&#8217;s more than 11,000 assets. Instead, the panel narrowly approved the nine-page draft bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Development Open Thread</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/05/business-development-open-thread/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/05/business-development-open-thread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Victory has a thousand fathers&#8221;, said John F. Kennedy, and this week has made it plain that, in Asheville&#8217;s economic development, this couldn&#8217;t be more true. 
Linamar, based in Canada but with 39 factories based in 11 countries, opened their plant yesterday in south Asheville. By the end of the year they&#8217;ll be employing 140 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolution Opposing Amendment One</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/02/resolution-opposing-amendment-one/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/02/resolution-opposing-amendment-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asheville City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the local people who worked on the text of this resolution, particularly Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara of the Campaign for Southern Equality. I&#8217;m proud to bring it forward to Asheville&#8217;s City Council with the help of Marc Hunt and Esther Manheimer. Asheville City Council will consider the Resolution at our April 10, 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County, City, Business Against Seizing the Water System</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/01/county-city-business-against-seizing-the-water-system/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/04/01/county-city-business-against-seizing-the-water-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Tim Moffitt and his &#8220;study committee&#8221; (see a series of posts here), will meet for the last time on April 19th. Several days prior to that meeting, the group will release a draft of their proposed legislative remedy to the problem of an excellent water system being left in capable hands. 
In advance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standing Up To Bullies Redux</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/30/standing-up-to-bullies-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/30/standing-up-to-bullies-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is ripped directly from Holly Jones&#8217; latest newsletter:


“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” &#8212; Elie Weisel
One of the responsibilities of local elected officials is to be a voice for the communities we represent. When laws from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trans-Vaginal Carolina</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/24/trans-vaginal-carolina/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/24/trans-vaginal-carolina/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a new state tech school, but a North Carolina bill like Virginia&#8217;s that, I admit, went right by me. Just heard about this one this morning. 
WRAL, February 27:
North Carolina’s ultrasound law, passed last year over the governor’s veto, didn’t provoke the same level of controversy. It doesn&#8217;t include the words &#8220;trans-vaginal probe,&#8221; either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meanwhile, out in the county&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/24/meanwhile-out-in-the-county/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/24/meanwhile-out-in-the-county/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
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		<title>AVLH2O: Downtown Association</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/15/avlh2o-downtown-association/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/15/avlh2o-downtown-association/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Rep. Tim Moffitt and Rep. Chuck McGrady go ahead with seizing the water system, it will be over the protestations of most everyone, including the Asheville Downtown Association, &#8220;a non-profit organization committed to the preservation and improvement of the central business district.&#8221;. The ADA&#8217;s membership includes AB Tech, Asheville SCORE, French Broad Brewing, Haywood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education: The Philosophic Difference</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/12/education-the-philosophic-difference/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/12/education-the-philosophic-difference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This radio interview with North Carolina state Rep. Rick Glazier last week has stayed with me. Glazier and state Rep. Ray Rapp were reacting to the Republican handling of education after gaining control of the North Carolina legislature in January 2011. Glazier explained it with this story:
Sort of mind-boggling. Maybe an opening script at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your county commission candidates</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/03/02/your-county-commision-candidates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Commissioners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the roster of candidates has been finalized (the filing deadline was noon on Wednesday), I&#8217;ll be offering up some preliminary political analysis of this cycle&#8217;s races in two separate posts. The first (this one) will discuss the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners and Register of Deeds races; the second, which I hope to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurry! Ends Soon!</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/28/hurry-ends-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ascend of Asheville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buncombe County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you are sitting on the fence, thinking about throwing your hat into the ring for a position in our local government, you had best make up your mind soon. The filing period ends tomorrow, the 29th at noon.
You can see who has filed for what by going to the Buncombe County site [...]]]></description>
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