“I hope I will be running, but I don’t have to make that decision right now," says former Charlotte mayor Pat McCrory at tonight's Guilford County Republican Party Reagan Day Dinner. "And part of these invitations are helping me get a gauge of what the reaction would be if I did announce.”
He's obviously talking about the very likely possibility that he will be a Republican candidate for governor next year. McCrory was the Republican nominee for governor in 2008, but lost to Democrat Beverly Perdue thanks, in part, to the Democratic tsunami and enthusiasm for Barack Obama.
Judging by the enthusiastic standing ovation and rapturous applause he received from a capacity crowd tonight at George K's in Greensboro after Chairman Bill Wright's introduction, McCrory is the GOP's man for 2012 in North Carolina.
Choice McCrory quote of the evening: "The bad news is that we did such a good job that President Barack Obama selected Charlotte to be the home of the Democratic National Convention in 2012. But there are two things that they will not talk about in 2012 when all the Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi and others -- they all come and descend upon our state in 2012, Labor Day.
"There's two things they won't tell the national audience. One is that this city actually had a Republican mayor for the last 14 years. They'll keep quiet about that because they've only had a Democratic mayor now for the past 13 months. And the second thing the president won't tell you is they're in a right-to-work city in a right-to-work state. And by God, it's gonna stay that way."
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