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Friday, October 02, 2009
Cary Allred, the GOP Gift Who Keeps on Giving
It's one thing for the likes of me to call Republicans self-righteous hypocrites. It's far more effective for a Republican legislator (make that a "former" Republican legislator) to point out the obvious, even though he did it out of pure self-interest.
But, really, who better to know the inner workings of self-righteous hypocrisy?
But, really, who better to know the inner workings of self-righteous hypocrisy?
Labels: Cary Allred, North Carolina Republican Party
Friday, May 29, 2009
When last heard from, N.C. House member Cary Allred was suggesting that the chairwoman of the N.C. Republican Party pound sand up her ass for demanding he resign from the General Assembly.But the headline this a.m., when we fired up the boilers on the old computer, was that Allred had decided he would resign after this current legislative session was over, in, say, September.
By this afternoon, the resignation time-table had accelerated, and Allred now says he'll be out of his friggin office by Monday.
And since he is a demonstrated master of loose-cannonism, he ain't going quietly. He's sick, he says, of being a Republican in a body dominated by Democrats, and he's perhaps even sicker of fellow Republicans:
"I am disgusted with my Republican colleagues who have looked at me through dark-colored glasses with evil thoughts," Allred said.
Sic transit gloria mundi. Which means, roughly translated, "I never liked any of youse anyway."
Labels: Cary Allred, North Carolina Republican Party
Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Lord of Misrule
That's Cary Allred, Republican member of the NC General Assembly from Burlington. He's an accomplished comedian.First, he was stopped on his way to Raleigh for going approximately a zillion miles per hour. Later that day, and apparently under the influence of lighter fluid, he put the (heterosexual) moves on a female House page, which behavior his (heterosexual) Republican colleagues later jealously called gross, icky, and mildly arousing.
Linda Daves, chair of the state party (until June 13th, when she's OUT), roused herself from baking apple dumplings long enough to demand that Allred resign from the General Assembly, and as late as Thursday Allred was saying, "All right, suckas, I'm outta your friggin uptight little political conclave." Allred said he'd change his registration to Unaffiliated.
But now, the about face and the punchline: Hell no, I won't leave the Republican Party, sez Allred, and who the hell is Linda Daves anyway?
"She never did anything to help me get elected. She doesn't know me. I don't know her," Allred said. "She does not know my constituents and my constituents don't know her."
Ooo, ouch.
Labels: Cary Allred, Linda Daves, North Carolina Republican Party
