Defending its base

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Smug, 25-year-old Chairman of the NC Democrat Party; AOC must be feeling decrepit

DNC threatens to sue North Carolina elections board over plan to purge 100,000 voters

The Democratic National Committee is threatening to sue the North Carolinaboard of elections if they go forward with plans to purge almost 100,000 voters from the rolls.

The state elections board – with a new Republican majority – voted at its 24 June meeting to require registered voters to cast provisional ballots if they have not provided their driver’s license number, last four digits of their social security number or an identification number supplied by the state.

…. Democratic leaders claim the order and the board’s response to it is unconstitutional, and argue the change has partisan purposes.

…. “Critically, even if a voter on this list casts a provisional ballot and provides their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number, their ballot will only be counted if the numbers provided are deemed ‘correct’,” the letter states. “By requiring voters to cast provisional ballots that may not be counted, the plan effectively removes registrants from the official list of eligible voters.”

So the Democrats’ complaint is that their voters’ merely supplying a false ID will no longer be sufficient; those pesky Republicans are now demanding that the ID be authentic and actually verified. Oh, the humanity!

One can sympathize with the Democrats; North Carolina is a battle state, and every illegal vote is crucial if they are to regain total control of the political machine, but sympathy does not necessarily mean approval; in fact, thinking on it, screw ‘em.

Not many state governments are any different, and Connecticut isn't among the few that are

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feeding time

Stephen Green

BLUE STATE BLUES: Washington state government spending surges 116% since 2015.

Washington state faces deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just hit taxpayers with the state’s largest combined tax increase – all driven by massive state spending increases over the past decade, an investigation of state budgets by The Center Square found.

Washington state spent about $80 billion in the 2013-15 budget but is set to spend more than $173 billion in 2025-27, a more than 116% increase over that time. U.S. inflation since 2015 has risen just 35.63%.

The surge in spending of taxpayer dollars prompted some policy analysts and lawmakers to say the increases must end sooner or later.

What would we do without experts?

I’d just add that the population has grown only about 15% since 2015, so even taking inflation into account, state spending has grown dramatically per capita — just under 40%.

By comparison, real GDP growth in Washington since 2015 is about 30%. So it doesn’t matter how much harder residents work or save, Olympia will eat all that up and more.

It's probably the failure of the agent to end the number at "895" that caused this one to sit so long

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198 Shore Road, Old Greenwich, $21.9 million, 20 full days between listing and contract.

The listing promises “magnificent outdoor spaces to take in the Gatsby-like grounds with lush lawns & gardens extending to Long Island Sound” and it’s a good thing today’s buyers don’t read books, because otherwise they might have been fatally disappointed when they came to view this and discovered 0.65 of an acre instead of the “approximately 40 acres” that Gatsby himself enjoyed.