Logan Smith
Progress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to Republican congressmen Ted Budd and Mark Walker joining state lawmakers Jon Hardister, Rick Gunn, and Lt. Gov. Dan Forest to tout Donald Trump’s tax plan which would give huge tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of working families. “It’s no wonder North Carolina Republicans…
Read MoreLogan Smith, Communications Director of Progress NC Action, is the man running the Twitter handle @YesYoureRacist. With the help of his followers, he’s called out several of those who attended the protests in Charlottesville over the weekend. From Raleigh News & Observer: In the past, Smith’s account has mostly just retweeted people making statements Logan…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Friday in response to bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE) that would protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller while he leads an investigation into the Trump campaign’s dealings with Russia: “After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, we urged North Carolina’s senators to support an…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Thursday regarding the special legislative session beginning today: “This Legislature is unconstitutional, illegitimate and has engaged in a multi-year war on democracy,” said Gerrick Brenner, executive director of Progress NC Action. “Their war started with unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, then moved to unconstitutional schemes to make it harder…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to a three-judge panel’s ruling ordering the General Assembly to draw new maps by the end of August: “Legislative Republicans have run out of excuses for their racially-gerrymandered districts which were always designed to jam as many African-American voters as possible into as few…
Read MoreProgress NC Action released the following statement on Friday in response to Senate Republicans’ failure to pass the so-called “Skinny Repeal” version of Trumpcare, which would have eliminated health coverage for 16 million Americans and caused a 20% increase in premiums: “Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr have made a lot of noise about being…
Read MoreRALEIGH — Progress NC Action released the following statement on Tuesday in response to the news that Trump spokesperson Kellyanne “Alternative Facts” Conway will be the keynote speaker of the NCGOP’s upcoming state convention: “It’s no surprise that the NCGOP is embracing the politics of deception enough to invite Kellyanne ‘Alternative Facts’ Conway to speak at their convention,”…
Read MoreRALEIGH — During all the commotion over Thursday’s vote to repeal parts of HB2 (while leaving other parts in place), one conspicuous absence went largely unnoticed: Sen. Chad Barefoot of Wake County, the son-in-law of N.C. Values Coalition director Tami Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and her anti-LGBT lobbying group were instrumental in pushing Republicans to pass HB2…
Read MoreCooper’s education proposal gives all teachers a pay increase, while past budgets have left out the most experienced educators RALEIGH — Even without raising taxes, Gov. Roy Cooper’s newly-released education proposal goes well beyond past budgets by giving a pay raise to ALL teachers in North Carolina. Previous teacher pay plans have included nothing for our most…
Read MoreAs predicted, Republican promises to raise average teacher pay “over $50,000” fall short RALEIGH — Every year, like clockwork, Republican lawmakers make big claims on teacher pay that inevitably fail to materialize — and this year is no different. In 2014, Sen. Phil Berger claimed teachers were getting “the largest pay increase in history.” The claim…
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