Posted on 12/15/2016 6:16:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature took extraordinary steps Thursday to reduce the powers of a Democratic governor-elect, defying raucous protests and threatened legal challenges days before he takes office.
GOP lawmakers ignored protesters disrupting House and Senate floor debate and advanced legislation on the second day of their surprise session, which Democrats angrily called a power grab to weaken Roy Cooper once he becomes governor Jan. 1.
The state’s attorney general, Cooper beat Republican Gov. Pat McCrory by barely 10,000 votes and vowed to fight back against GOP initiatives of recent years, particularly a law McCrory signed last March limiting LGBT rights. …
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Keep up the good work, GOP-NC. If only the national GOP would have had the same fortitude for the past umpteen years, we wouldn’t be in this mess we are now in and we wouldn’t be in a position to have to “make America great again.”
Not a question of fortitude, but of corruption. Especially DC corruption.
This is payback.
Some years ago, 1985, Jim Martin was elected Governor, first Repub in many many years.
The then Dim State legislature stripped the Governor of power to appoint and other things prior to the inauguration.
They should concern themselves too with obliterating the election fraud and taking back the state.
The GOP needs to stop getting sucked into these culture war traps!
Quite suspicious.
Indeed especially in light of the praise that McCrory was receiving for his handling of the severe flooding in NC. He was really present for those in need.
I hope he gets another crack at the governorship and throws the Democrat bum out.
Actually, it is. When you lose, you can't force the majority to do what you want by yelling and intimidating.
The Democrat Hunt was reasonably ok, but NC has had 2 recent, typical crooked Dem governors in Mike Easley and Bev Perdue now we are stuck with Cooper.
This was a vote against HB2, the law crafted after Charlotte passed a ‘use any bathroom, locker room,dressing room you want’ ordinance.
A lot of athletic events, conventions cancelled events in the State and the loss of revenue was crowed about incessantly.
Commercial after commercial ran day and night. Unisex bathrooms pushed.
I recall one, one commercial pointing out the locker room, dressing room aspect of the law. It ran a few times.
So folks tossed their morals aside for the promise of money .
Oh, did I mention the mayor of Charlotte is a lesbian? And refused to even entertain the thought of rescinding the ordinance.
Not only that, the 90,000 votes were from early voting which had ended at 1 p.m. on Saturday- 3 1/2 days before election day!
There were surely illegal aliens voting. I was a poll observer at a Charlotte Democrat precinct on election day and noticed how the precinct filled up at 5:30 p.m. with plenty of folks who could be illegal. Remember, if you get a green card, it takes about 10 years and lots of money to achieve citizenship. These folks sure didn’t look like they had been in Charlotte 10 years. Unfortunately Governor McCrory granted driver’s licenses to illegals 2 or 3 years ago. Once that happens, it makes voter registration and illegal voting much easier- bad idea! Illinois also has this and probably lots of illegals voting.
Oh, yeah. Voter fraud all the way.
McCrory has singed one of the bills
“The new law merges the State Board of Elections and State Ethics Commission into one board made up equally of Democrats and Republicans. The old law would have allowed Cooper to put a majority of Democrats on the elections panel. The law also makes elections for appellate court judgeships officially partisan again.
In a final twist, the elections bill gives the Court of Appeals, which is dominated by Republicans, a role in constitutional challenges to laws, such as those just passed in the session.
McCrory has not yet indicated whether he would sign an additional bill that would make Cooper’s appointment of Cabinet officials subject to approval by the state Senate and reduce the number of appointees who serve at the pleasure of the governor from 1,500 to 425, The Charlotte Observer reports.
The bill would also block the governor from appointing members of the boards of trustees for University of North Carolina schools.”
I urge him to also sign the second bill.
Commies pledge to sue.
Sentient herpes blister and RINO/DEM operative John Weaver calls it “Banana Republic behavior”. I call it patriotism, and necessary.
This is how things get done in Trumpland: Even if you lose, you win.
And inflict the maximum amount of pain as possible on your enemies.
It’s called “winning”. Get used to it.
#ifyourenotinthefrontofthebusyousuck
“McCrory has singed one of the bills.”
Oh, no! Why would he do that? I hope that it didn’t burn badly enough to become unreadable.
Oh, wait, you meant that McCrory *signed* the bill. Whew, that’s more like it. : )
But seriously, why hasn’t McCrory signed the other bill into law yet?
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