This is priceless. Last week at the Young Democrats convention her in NC there was a private reception with Clintonista and DLC tool James Carville and local pols. Blue America-endorsed North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Jim Neal was there as Mary Matalin’s husband got up to shill for Neal’s opponent and Chuck Schumer/DSCC-backed candidate State Senator Kay Hagan.
Ryan Teague Beckwith at The News & Observer's Under the Dome has the skinny on what happened, and there's a photo of it below the fold.
Here’s a great photo of people reacting to the confrontation as Carville was steamrolled into silence by Neal:
At one point, Carville said that North Carolina has a great Senate candidate in Kay Hagan, noting that he had just spoken with her daughter, Carrie.
Neal, who is running against Hagan for the Democratic nomination, spoke out from the back of the room.
"I said, 'We have primaries here in North Carolina. We don't have coronations,'" Neal said later.
He said Carville did not respond. "It was the first time I've ever seen him quiet," Neal said.
Incidentally, Kay Hagan has finally agreed to a BlueNC liveblog; it's Tuesday at 5PM. I have already posted a few LGBT rights-related questions to ask the elusive candidate.
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