Heckuva job, Ricky

Heckuva job, Ricky

It’s 2014. Ricky Diaz leaving the Department of Health and Human Services is the least surprising story of the day. It was the obvious end to his tenure. Diaz is a campaign hack. He’s 24 years old. He was always going back to campaigns when the cycle heated up again....
What a sham

What a sham

By now, it’s apparent to most political observers that Pat McCrory’s campaign platform was a sham. He ran on fixing a broken government but never defined what exactly was broken. Most of us thought he was referring to the cronyism and petty corruption like sweetheart...
Like a business

Like a business

Part of our Best of PoliticsNC 2013, this piece was originally posted on August 15, 2013 after we learned that unqualified campaign hacks were being paid more than $85,000 at the Department of Health and Human Services. If you enjoy this or other posts, please...
A failure to communicate

A failure to communicate

How many Department of Health and Human Services employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? We don’t know but it will take 19 to run their new marketing and public relations shops. I wonder how much they’ll get paid? You see, they knew something was broken over...
Heckuva job, Ricky

It’s not the rumors

To borrow from Mark Twain, rumors of Aldona Wos’ departure were greatly exaggerated. However, they were also eminently believable. That’s why the rumors had such legs. And they may still be true–just not last week. Most people, including Republicans, Democrats...

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