The cover story of this issue of Capitol Connection explores how a network of left-wing groups uses deceptive, hardball tactics to manipulate the political process in North Carolina. Other topics include the coming Obamacare “train wreck,” four important truths about the Common Core curriculum, why voter photo ID is needed, how the Racial Justice Act affects victims’ families, and “Confessions of a Young Hispanic Conservative.” Civitas Capitol Connection is the monthly newspaper of the Civitas Institute.
[…] Here in North Carolina we have a case study of how “left-wing non-profit groups wield an alarming amount of power in the media, state politics and government.” So writes Susan Myrick, a long-time participant in and observer of North Carolina politics, in the April 2013 (Vol. 5, no. 4) issue of Civitas Capitol Connection (www.nccivitas.org).(link) […]