
{"id":1389,"date":"2007-12-05T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/05\/exile-on-jones-street-120607\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:15:41","slug":"exile-on-jones-street-120607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/05\/exile-on-jones-street-120607\/","title":{"rendered":"Exile on Jones Street: 12\/06\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Guv gets it<\/strong><br \/>\nAffix blame, if you would, firmly with the campaign class \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the pollsters, consultants and money folks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and shame to the candidates who listen to them. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about the reaction of our gubernatorial candidates to a ruling that allows undocumented immigrants the opportunity to a community college education in the state of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration is the new gay and thanks to the steady work of demagogues, those afeared of being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153soft\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on immigration are trying to outrun each other to whatever quadrant political game theory says is safest.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think we just open the gates to the English-hating hordes, but the ruling will affect only about 350 students, all of whom are paying out-of-state tuition and who for the most part came here when they were too young to know they were breaching the borders of a superpower. How would they know that one day they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d run afoul of the campaign pledges of those trying to outdo each other in how secure they say they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll make us.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the rundown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Moore says his experience as a federal prosecutor informs his right to say he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support educating them. Illegal means illegal;<\/li>\n<li>A spokesperson for Bev Perdue told WRAL that she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think anyone in the country illegally should be able to attend an NC community college;<\/li>\n<li>Fred Smith says plainly \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno way,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 called on the Legislature to overturn the ruling and laid into Attorney General Roy Cooper. He also says the issue is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153complicated\u00e2\u20ac\u009d;<\/li>\n<li>Bill Graham says educating the undocumented hurts NC workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 retraining and offers the preposterous premise that we shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be educating people who are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unemployable\u00e2\u20ac\u009d due to their illegal status. Dude, look around;<\/li>\n<li>Bob Orr says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153me, too\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to no education, but adds that the feds need to solve this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contrast that with the actual governor, also a former prosecutor, who has seen North Carolina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic opportunities beckon a half-million or more to the state during his tenure. Easley said it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make sense to shut the kids out and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply playing the hand he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been dealt.<\/p>\n<p>And, unlike his potential successors, the governor had the nerve to mention that the lives of real human beings are involved.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what he told the Charlotte Observer:<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The people we are talking about were brought here as babies and young children through no fault of their own\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6. They distinguished themselves throughout our K-12 system. Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not willing to grind my heel in their faces and slam the door on them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Easley also says he expects the next governor to not hold onto his or her current position (which is heavy on the heel grinding) for long, especially since without federal reform the hand they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be holding will be exactly the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>McCrory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trial gondola<\/strong><br \/>\nSpeaking of running for governor, not long after being sworn in for his seventh term, Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory let it be known that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s considering it.<\/p>\n<p>He told Under the Dome he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be doing some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153soul-searching\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about a run over the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time when someone tells reporters from a major newspaper they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re contemplating a run, it means operators are standing by waiting for the calls from supporters to rain in.<\/p>\n<p>McCrory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entry could really shake up a race where the GOP\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s field hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been able to crack the lead built up by none-of-the-above. And while it may take some serious work and even more serious dough to move from 58,000 votes in Charlotte to the roughly 2 million it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take to win the mansion, McCrory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a lot of built-in crossover appeal with pro-business Democrats and light rail enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also that little matter of the Democratic candidates determined to brawl their way to May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guv gets it Affix blame, if you would, firmly with the campaign class \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the pollsters, consultants and money folks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and shame to the candidates who listen to them. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about the reaction of our gubernatorial candidates to a ruling that allows undocumented immigrants the opportunity to a community college education in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}