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N.C. Senate Passes Lottery Bill
WRAL.com ^ | August 30, 2005 | WRAL.com

Posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:26 AM PDT by Constitution Day

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina is no longer the only state along the East Coast that does not have a lottery. Senators passed the measure Tuesday by one vote.

Senate Majority Leader Tony Rand, D-Cumberland, brought up the bill for consideration about 1:15 p.m. Senate leader Marc Basnight told WRAL he called senators back to Raleigh because he thought the votes were there to pass a lottery.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: lottery; lotteryq; nclottery; northcarolina
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To: krb; marblehead17

I have to imagine no longer.

OH, MY EYES!


41 posted on 08/30/2005 1:35:01 PM PDT by Darth Reagan (Everyone who hires us is a psycho. You think that's a reflection on us?)
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To: Darth Reagan

Oh the humanity.


42 posted on 08/30/2005 1:37:35 PM PDT by marblehead17 (I love it when a plan comes together.)
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To: Constitution Day

Lottery: tax on the poor and the stupid


43 posted on 08/30/2005 1:38:19 PM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: RockinRight

I suspect that it's a leftover from when Dems were patriotic and truly populist. Old habits die hard, especially in the South, but it does begin to look like recognizing who gets the power if local moderate Dems are elected (it ain't local moderate Dems, even if they do get re-elected for decades).

And of course, the creeping Marxism of Northern and Western DemocraticParty members is infecting the locals as well.

This proposal is simply saying "Hey, everybody around us are losing their minds. We need to lose ours, too. We don't want to look different."

It's just a dumb idea, with the added fillip of institutionalizing immorality. Just what a religious red state does not need.

Thanks for reading,
Beleg


44 posted on 08/31/2005 3:55:20 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, protector of the Innocent, pray for us!)
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To: Constitution Day

Yeah, on friday, the speaker called off any more votes for the session and sent everyone home. When he found out that one of the opponents to the lottery was going on honeymoon, and the other was too sick to return to Raleigh, he called everyone back quickly and got a 24-24 vote. The sleaze-bag Lt. Gubna cast the tie-breaker. These 'crats will stoop to any depth...


45 posted on 08/31/2005 4:03:32 AM PDT by Edgar3 (Constitutional Republic, or die)
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What's next for the N.C. lottery

The Associated Press
August 30, 2005 5:41 pm

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Here's a quick look at what will happen next for the North Carolina lottery, which received final legislative approval Tuesday:


46 posted on 08/31/2005 8:26:46 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: yall
LINK for above post (sorry):

What's next for the N.C. lottery

47 posted on 08/31/2005 8:28:01 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: RockinRight
Here is a link that may answer you question,

http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=1923

You must understand for all intensive purposes there is no Republican caucus in the NC House. Yes there are 57 members in the house who are Republicans, but they do not caucus together on a regular basis because of infighting. The infighting has gotten so bad that in 2004 the GOP spent more time recruiting candidates to unseat Republicans in the primary then Democrats in the General Election. The power is given to minority Leader Joe Kiser and Speaker Pro-Tem Richard Morgan, they represent the more moderate faction of the party. The conservative are lead by former minority leader Leo Daughtry, who was unseated as the GOP leader in 2003, the current Republican leadership has refused to grant Daughtry and some of his followers a real office or any paid staff. Anything these Representatives get comes from the Democrats not from there own. These members who the leadership has written out tend to be the more conservative of the group.

As for the 2004 Governors race, the GOP had things go so bad the the then State party chairman, Bill Cobey, who supposed to find a good candidate, declared all the announced candidates could not win and he resigned and ran himself. Cobey lost the primary but the damage was done and the party was unable to recover.
48 posted on 08/31/2005 10:59:58 AM PDT by THE MODERATE
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