Our morning news front-paged today an article outlining North Carolina's failure to comply with federal mandates aimed at curbing drunken driving. While the DOT hasn't yet made a final decision, if they rule NC laws are indeed too lenient, NC will lose $44 million in highway construction/repair funding and those monies will be diverted to highway safety or anti-drunken driving programs. A number of other states are also noncompliant, but just behind California, NC risks the 2nd biggest loss in funds.
Not mentioned in the story...is that our new GOP legislature has been working feverishly to ban public displays of nipples and breasts...making such a thing a low-grade felony punishable (1st offense) by up to 6 months in prison. Contrast that with 24 hrs in jail for a first DWI offense. The GOP, as usual, has it's priorities, ya know!
In addition our new GOP Goobernor Pat (Peckerwood) McCrory has just refused to enact the ACA medicaid expansion provisions in North Carolina and is losing the state $millions in Federal Medicaid health care funding while also denying @ 500,000 people healthcare under medicaid.
Should you be driving and see a 'WELCOME TO NORTH CAROLINA" sign as you pass into our beautiful state, don't believe it. I'm starting to believe the only people officially welcome here are klan members, pollution spouting businesses, and people who are too stupid to find their own behind with both hands...ie, other Republicans. Kinda like Kansas but with trees.