Posted on 06/21/2023 2:54:52 AM PDT by CFW
Legislation to prohibit compelled speech in state hiring decisions, vetoed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, was overridden in the Senate and sent to the House on Tuesday.
It was one of four veto overrides that moved across the hall to the House. Override votes have not yet been scheduled in the House.
In North Carolina, a veto override can be done with three-fifths, or a supermajority, in favor in each chamber. If all are present, Republican representation totals exactly that – 30 for the Senate, 72 for the House.
The Grand Old Party is on the cusp of making it six-for-six this session after four years of Cooper going 38-for-38. Tuesday’s votes in the Senate follow successful overrides of Cooper vetoes this session on legislation to restrict abortions after 12 weeks, and to repeal the state’s 110-year-old law for pistol purchase permits.
Senate Bill 364, to prohibit compelled speech in state employment, was overridden on a vote of 30-18.
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My friend’s granddaughter just graduated from West Point.
For some class they had to write essays about their lives and were graded. The grades weren’t based on form or style.
The more pathetic a student’s life was, the higher the grade. If you were down with the struggle, it was good.
She didn’t do well. Super smart girl, BUT she’s white, Protestant, was raised in a middle-class intact family, and there were no divorces ever in the family history. She actually got marked down for those things.
“She actually got marked down for those things.”
Wow! Having a conservative and successful family is now a reason for lower grading on essays.
In another state’s veto news.....
In Vermont:
“Vetoes on the state budget and child care bills emanated from the House of Representatives in Montpelier on the first day of the General Assembly’s veto session.
The Democratic majority House voted to override Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s vetoes on House Bill 494, the state budget, and House Bill 217, a piece of legislation that would impose a payroll tax to draw funding that would be used to provide childcare.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/vermont/article_918d0486-0f9d-11ee-b329-2beacdbf6383.html
Just think, a payroll tax to fund daycare! Soon, the old joke that the government will just have your pay directly deposited in their account and send you what they think you need will become true. And they will determine those that actually work need very little!
Payroll tax. Private sector payroll tax, I’d bet.
In Vermont?
Yup, that’ll rake in the bucks.
Snort.
This is from 2022.
https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/vt/
Bet the employmwmt numbers still stink.
In today’s world she should have identified as a poor, pregnant black non binary Asian with native American roots whose pronouns are ze/shem.
She probably would have graduated as Joint Chiefs 4 star General.
And in South Carolina:
“South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has issued 11 vetoes, nixing more than $1.5 million from the budget state lawmakers approved.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/south_carolina/article_946b989c-0fb2-11ee-911c-e39687af44ca.html
“He also nixed $275,000 for the Mental Wealth Alliance, a California-based company founded by Charlamagne Tha God. “
Governments have become way too free with our money. Taxpayers are no longer given any consideration as to how our tax dollars are spent. They just want more, more more. Something has to change-—Soon!
A friend of mine that retired from the military had been teaching at West Point for several years. He left to get his PhD.
Bill Clinton changed the rules so that you no longer were required to have military service to teach at West Point. What that really meant was that no one with military experience got hired.
Thus my friend could not get back in after getting his PhD.
Excellent! Keep shoving them all right down Roy Cooper’s throat. He has held up a lot of good legislation from being passed in this state for years. Seeing the Republicans come back and force feed him every single last bit of it - and make it stick - is a wonderful thing.
Suck it Cooper.
I watched a commentary on why Target and Budweiser can’t make an apology. If they lose their ESG rating, they lose their credit line. They may have more than sufficient money coming in to meet their obligations, but it won’t be available when the obligations are due. This is what the credit line lets them do, pay off the obligations when they’re due. If they don’t pay the obligations, then they’re out of business. This is called “compelled speech.” This doesn’t mean the companies aren’t really woke. It just means they can’t even make an apology to save their company because doing so may cost them the company. Rock...hard place.
And they need to go back to the original job they did. It's called PAYROLL Department.
At the State level we actually have a modicum of control over the elected officials. They have to live and work among us. Every State should ensure the State politicians meet for a limited amount of time so they have to live and work in the communities that elected them. It changes their attitude and perspective.
Despite the influx of Cali and NY libs NC has gone deeper Red. I believe in response to our corrupt National political machines and bureaucrats. It is also in no small part due to the MAGA movement. The libs who migrate here stay in urban areas that are reliably liberal. But those areas have always voted liberal so they did not change much. I suspect angry conservatives are going to give the GOP the Governors Mansion in 2024, we should keep both Chambers and we already locked in the State Supreme Court. This should be the model for other States to follow.
Planned or not, I like that all the controversial legislation is being forced down Cooper's throat. Robinson can become Governor and not be forced into an immediate fight with liberals over the people's sex lives and revisionist history.
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