The Citizen-Times posted some peculiar pictures of the governor, apparently living it up yesterday with lots of beer. She was celebrating the state’s appropriation of twenty teacher salaries toward corporate welfare to coax Sierra Nevada to locate a brewery in Mills River. The photos seemed inappropriate, but in retrospect, they’re even weirder. Today, WWNC 570AM talk show host Pete Kaliner described the governor’s at her last hoorah as “walking dead.”

In sum, the government could be construed to be sacrificing 100 (one-year, full-time) teacher jobs for the beer joint:

Henderson County is offering about $3.5 million in incentives over five years, and Mills River is offering $86,800.

The project was made possible in part by a $1.025 million grant from the One North Carolina Fund.

Now that I’ve cast the governor in a negative light (which sounds darker than dark), it’s time to shine rainbows of heavenly light on her. According to news stories, she has repented; and I support wholeheartedly her verbal commitment to get on the right track, now. She announced today she will not run for a second term in order to fight for education dollars. Let’s give her all the support we can to help her keep her word.