North Carolina: "First in Cronyism"

That awkward moment when Phil Berger's fingerprints are found all over a no-bid provision written into the state budget, whereby only one company in the land could meet the specific provisions put into the law.

The Medora Corp. in North Dakota got the $1.4 million no-bid contract to "stir" the pollution in Lake Jordan, and there's an email history to show that NC Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger engineered that little piece of special dealing.