Posted on 05/18/2022 1:36:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
Several state legislators won't be returning to the North Carolina General Assembly next January after primary losses, while former lawmakers had mixed results in trying to get back to the House or Senate.
At least six incumbents — four Republicans and two Democrats — lost in Tuesday's primaries for seats in their current chamber.
Three of those sitting Republicans ran against fellow GOP incumbents who lived in the same district due to redistricting changes. As of Wednesday, the Associated Press had not called a similar head-to-head race between two Senate Republicans.
Two Senate Democrats — Sens. Kirk deViere and Ernestine Bazemore — and Republican Rep. Pat Hurley — also lost primaries for their seats.
In addition, two current House members — Democrat Raymond Smith and Republican Lee Zachary — failed to win Senate primaries. Each attempted to make the jump to the Senate after facing similar “double-bunkings” with House colleagues in their districts because of remapped boundaries.
Among the four primaries featuring two Republican incumbents, Sens. Ralph Hise of Mitchell County was narrowly leading Sens. Deanna Ballard of Watauga County in the 47th District by almost 1.5 percentage points, according to unofficial election results. Each hold significant leadership jobs in the Republican majority — Hise is a Senate Finance Committee co-chairman, while Ballard co-chairs a pair of education committees.
In the northeast, Sen. Norm Sanderson of Pamlico County defeated Sen. Bill Steinburg of Chowan County. They were running for same 1st District seat.
In the House, veteran Rep, Jamie Boles of Moore County lost to first-term Rep. Ben Moss of Richmond County in the Sandhills-area 26th District. And Rep. Jake Johnson of Polk County handily defeated Rep. David Rogers of Rutherford County for the 113th District seat.
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Term limits would be better.
Agree!
Ten years five contiguous terms without a break is enough!
Go home and experience your genius at governing for say four to six years before you can return!
Court imposed gerrymandering...ain’t it grand.
The most support I have seen that limits Reps and Senators is any combination of 12 years. For instance if you have been a Rep for for three terms you can then run for a senate seat (3*2=6 plus 6 = 12). However if you have served for four terms, you cannot run for the senate as that would put you over the 12 year limit.
The biggest problem with term limits is that it diminishes the power of the elected official and moves it to the un-elected civil service proles. If term limits were ever to pass it must be accompanied with some limitations on the tenures of the un-elected ciphers. Otherwise if some bureaucrat has a problem with a politician the bureaucrat will simply slow-walk any requests made by the politician knowing that the resistance will pay off soon as the politician may not be re-elected. The bureaucrat’s problem goes away. The civil service folks who are lazy, arrogant and un-helpful have no fear of being sacked. But they should.
Remove their union & civil service protections! Actually, enforce the Hatch Act would be a huge help. Rat administrations pretend it isn’t on the books, GOP administrations just wave their hands at it.
Anyway, the civil service professional (CSP) shouldn’t be making policy decisions. That should be done by the political appointee, the CSP right policy solution or wrong policy solution should just put the gears in motion to execute them. At least that’s the ideal situation. However, we CAN NOT let Congress off the hook on this both sides have delegated down a lot of decision making to the CSP. That way the appointee and Congress can’t be easily blamed if the administration backed policy nose dives! You blame the bureaucrat! It wasn’t my policy that did that it was those _%)-%-)-_ faceless bureaucrats!
Today’s partisan politics have deeply corrupted the CSP through hiring practices and of course unionization (roughly 30% feds union!).
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