Democracy
Last week, a three-judge panel struck down North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional maps but approved the General Assembly’s redrawn legislative maps. However, the plaintiffs in the case have now appealed the panel’s ruling on the legislative maps to the state Supreme Court — so it remains to be seen whether we will have yet ANOTHER set of maps…
Read MoreStop us if you’ve heard this one before — a three-judge panel has struck down North Carolina’s gerrymandered congressional maps, throwing the upcoming election into turmoil. Didn’t we just leave this party? North Carolina voters have had enough. Anyone who thinks Republican leaders are remotely capable of drawing electoral maps that aren’t gerrymandered to benefit the GOP simply hasn’t…
Read MoreToday we deeply mourn the loss of Kay Hagan. She served in the NCGA for 10 years and in the US senate for 6. She was a key vote in the passing of the Affordable Care Act and always represented our state with courage and grace. From Politico: Kay Hagan, a former bank executive who…
Read MoreThis morning, House Minority Leader Darren Jackson challenged Republican leaders to take a lie detector test in order to settle competing claims over the budget ambush vote orchestrated by Speaker Tim Moore earlier this month. Republican leaders claim they merely took dishonest advantage of a miscommunication to House Democrats as if that wouldn’t be bad enough. Jackson…
Read MoreWhat was once just wishful thinking from the left has actually translated to significant action in Congress as the impeachment investigation into Donald Trump’s corrupt abuses of power gains steam. A government whistleblower has come forward to reveal that Trump asked the new president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his family on flimsy accusations of…
Read MoreLast week, former NCGOP chair Robin Hayes pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI as part of an alleged bribery scheme involving indicted businessman Greg Lindberg. As part of his plea deal, Hayes will cooperate with federal prosecutors investigating an alleged scheme to funnel $2 million in campaign donations to Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey and the NCGOP…
Read MoreSen. Phil Berger has promised that Senate Republicans will not repeat the budget ambush vote orchestrated by Speaker Tim Moore in the House last month — though Berger has a track record of dishonesty that should give pause to anyone who does not believe the word “gullible” is written on the ceiling. Republican leaders claim they merely…
Read MoreEarlier this month, a three-judge panel of the Wake County Superior Court ruled unanimously in the case of Common Cause v. Lewis that the General Assembly violated the state constitution when it gerrymandered legislative districts for partisan gain. The court gave the legislature until Sept. 18 to draw new House and Senate districts, applying strict nonpartisan criteria…
Read More“This is a travesty of the process and you know it,”said Rep. Deb Butler, D-New Hanover. On 9/11, the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on American soil, Republicans in the NC House of Representatives misled Democrats to sneak a vote to override Gov. Cooper’s veto of the state budget. Democrats in the NC House…
Read MoreThe cost of GOP budget inaction is about $42,000 per day, or about a million dollars and counting. Legislative Republicans can either hold an override vote or return to the negotiating table, but instead, they’re doing neither while pointing fingers at the governor. Enough House Democrats have pledged to sustain Gov. Cooper’s budget veto that Republicans have…
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