Bob Hall
Bob Hall
decline pace
It's unusual. It's a significant decline from the pace that he was on.
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Even with the Democrats in control, whoever wins those seats will factor in based upon their willingness and ability to compromise. The Democrats will need allies across the aisle on different issues.
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That's the best antidote for this whole thing.
football good
It was a good win. Orland is a pretty good football team.
rivalry
It's a rivalry from the old Westside League,
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It looked very much like a conspiracy to put illegal money into Jim Black's campaign.
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It's a year-round money chase now. That's new. It used to be in the off-year there would be relatively little money raised except perhaps for the top leaders.
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We're about to witness, on a new level for North Carolina, the scope of corruption and illegal activity tied to the private system of financing public elections.
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We don't have the infrastructure ... to prevent the current corruption that is upon us because of the lottery, ... Whether you like it or don't like it, it is coming with a cast of characters, and we don't have the tools to make them behave. We need to get them in place.
emotion felt good played
We played with some emotion and I felt really good about that. Offensively, we got some things on track.
level source trying
A lot of it is at the level of $100, interestingly enough, or below. That's one way of trying to camouflage the source of the money.
close smells
You're essentially getting close to bribery. The whole thing just smells bad.
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You might want to have somebody on there that is familiar with the power of the addiction to gaming, ... You'd want to have somebody sensitive to the enterprise potentially abusing poor people.
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Special interests feel like that it's a pay-to-play system, so they supply the cash. Different groups are using different techniques to put together large amounts of money to have it identified from their own special interest, to get some credit and to gain some advantage, not only access, but to get favorable policy.