Pay-To-Play Pat Sidewalk Ball (protest of Foundation for For North Carolina Inaugural Ball)
Background on the Foundation for North Carolina:
As the Republican gubernatorial nominee, Pat McCrory spoke often of treating citizens like customers. The idea, we supposed, was that he wanted state employees to respond to the public as if their jobs depended on rendering good service.
But now that McCrory is governor-elect, his top campaign adviser has created a foundation that gives the notion of customer service a less positive spin. Apparently it means that under Governor McCrory, customers who give the most money will get the most attention. That will be a problem if those donors also are seeking state contracts or relief from regulations.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/13/2543518/mccrory-group-works-outside-political.html#storylink=cpy
Video (courtesy of Michael Harmon of Occupy NC State):
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/elektrosoundwave#/recorded/28434561
Photos courtesy of Progress North Carolina (will post ones I took later)
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who puts the interests of the wealthy before everything else. Who'd have thought it? 
