Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation director of communications, compares the scandal surrounding Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon’s corruption charges to other recent political corruption cases in North Carolina. Kokai offered these comments for a March 26, 2014, report on Time Warner Cable News.
For healthy civil society, politics needs to stay in its lane
Political and cultural causes are important. They motivate us to make the world around us better and hone our sense of justice. Also, the excitement of fighting the good fight can be, for lack of a better word, fun. But everything has its time and place. And even if we think a particular political issue...