{"id":4807,"date":"2011-02-03T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/02\/03\/insult-to-north-carolinians\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:15","slug":"insult-to-north-carolinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4807","title":{"rendered":"An Insult To North Carolinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18206,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.governor.state.nc.us\\\/NewsItems\\\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?newsItemID=1638&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/governor.nc.gov?newsItemID=1638&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18207,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michellemalkin.com\\\/2011\\\/02\\\/02\\\/democrat-jerk-ousted-by-n-c-voters-gets-new-government-gig&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nc.us\/NewsItems\/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?newsItemID=1638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Governor Bev Perdue announced<\/a> that she was appointing former U.S. Representative Bob &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; Etheridge as the new Director of the NC Office of Economic Recovery and Investment. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Nearly 80 percent of the state recovery funds have been dispersed and the money will continue to flow through at least 2012. Projects to date include train station expansions, highway improvements, new water and sewer projects for local governments, historic expansion of the state\u2019s broadband network, funding to keep teacher positions across the state and assistance towards single family home ownership.<\/p>\n<p>In his new position, Etheridge will oversee how the funds are dispersed, ensuring that money continues to be spent in a timely fashion with high accountability, and will make sure the projects under contract are getting done.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For overseeing the administration of the remaining 20% of the &#8220;stimulus&#8221; funds, Etheridge will be paid $98,500 a year. Of course, this is on top of his pension as a (forcibly) retired Congressman. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2011\/02\/02\/democrat-jerk-ousted-by-n-c-voters-gets-new-government-gig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> commented on this appointment saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>That\u2019s right. Etheridge was booted out of office thanks to the Tea Party movement \u2014 which coalesced against the federal porkulus \u2014 and now he gets to redistribute porkulus wealth on the public\u2019s dime.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To give this a gun rights related spin, Etheridge&#8217;s NRA-PVF ranking was D. His opponent, Rep. Renee Ellmers, was AQ rated and eventually got the NRA endorsement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Governor Bev Perdue announced that she was appointing former U.S. Representative Bob &#8220;Who are you?&#8221; Etheridge as the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4456,3865],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-etheridge","tag-gov-beverly-perdue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6237,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/6237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}