WNC And The GOP’s Helene Fumble

27, 2024. And the pace of it. Over a year and a half later, WNC is still waiting for promised federal funds. Helene caused 60 billion in damage across North Carolina. For all of Edwards’s cozying up to the Trump administration in his R+5 district, the region had seen only 9 percent of promised recovery monies, Gov. Josh Stein (D) noted last fall. Stein nevertheless requested another 13.5 billion for storm recovery from Congress this month. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jamie Ager for Congress (@jamieagernc) Helene recovery also will be an issue in former Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) bid for the open U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Thom Tillis. Cook’s Political ranks the race Lean D. To get a sense of Edwards, consider his trolling a town hall crowd in Asheville last March. Or his lending his campaign 250,000, then collecting interest when he repaid himself 2 years later (Asheville Watchdog). Or his response to Leslie Boyd, a former beat reporter who turned activist after the death of her son (The Assembly): Boyd’s son Mike died from colon cancer in 2008; he was uninsured due