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A coup? A power grab? Theres some serious political drama in North Carolina right now

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And McCrory new this legislature wasn't going anywhere with one of the most egregious gerrymandered maps at the state and national level there is. Cooper might as well talk with the VA governor because that's the kind of gridlock you guys will have. I'm wondering whether DEMs have fully recognized the damage done by the 2010 census elections .
 
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Wow. . . on the surface it seems really ****ty and shady. Totally jacked up thing to do and exactly what is wrong with politics today. But it is all legal as far as I know. Im also not from NC so I dont know how much of this was going on already or with other people in power.

IMO the second biggest problem besides the media, catering to extremists and lack of education is that many politicians cater to those extremists and act xtreme themselves to achieve what they want. And unfortunately what they want has VERY VERY little to do with us and everything to do with their power and bank accounts.
 
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Just pointing out here that no one is arguing or suggesting what the North Carolina Republican Party is doing in the state legislature is against the law.
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
Just pointing out here that no one is arguing or suggesting what the North Carolina Republican Party is doing in the state legislature is against the law.
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People calling it a "coup" are. And "power grab," to a lesser extent.
 
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Harshaw said:
People calling it a "coup" are. And "power grab," to a lesser extent.
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If you have a problem with semantics then so be it
 
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TheDemSocialist said:
If you have a problem with semantics then so be it
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"Semantics." That's a card played a little too frequently, and seldom appropriately.
 
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Some of it sounds reasonable, even if it's being dome purely for petty reasons, at least it's being done. Some is complete BS or just stupid (e.g. Why should judicial elections be partisan?!).
 
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Harshaw said:
"Semantics." That's a card played a little too frequently, and seldom appropriately.
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I agree that "coup" was rhetorical. That's peripheral to the material facts of the issue at hand.
 
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Absentglare said:
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I agree that "coup" was rhetorical. That's peripheral to the material facts of the issue at hand.
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It was really just a click-baity way to get people to read the article.
 
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This is what happens when the USA foolishly allows stuff like gerrymandering.
 
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North Carolina is in the Northeast? I guess that's the coup, forcing North Carolina to be moved to a different region of the country.

** Note that this post is listed under Northeast
 
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Yes, it is legal – yet it is clear they are reducing the elected Dem Governors powers. So, the only butt hurt here are the Republicans in the NC Legislature
 
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JANFU said:
Yes, it is legal – yet it is clear they are reducing the elected Dem Governors powers. So, the only butt hurt here are the Republicans in the NC Legislature
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The mods should stop allowing that vulgar expression that is associated with sodomy, which recently was a crime.

With that out of the way, I applaud the legislature's effort to prevent a leftist incoming governor from wrecking the state's economy.
 
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Absentglare said:
What? I don't understand your contention.

It sounds like they're trying to dramatically cut the incoming governor's power- do you contest this?
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The incoming governor has no power to undercut. When the incoming governor is no longer incoming, then he gets to make the decisions. That's how the system works.
 
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SDET said:
The mods should stop allowing that vulgar expression that is associated with sodomy, which recently was a crime.

With that out of the way, I applaud the legislature's effort to prevent a leftist incoming governor from wrecking the state's economy.
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Well how is Kansas doing under the far right tax cuts? Or even Wisconsin, the tax cuts for the wealthy did not increase revenues as was predicted in both States. And what do they do, but double down.
Louisiana now has a Dem who is cleaning up the fiscal mess from the former Republican Governor.
 
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jimbo said:
The incoming governor has no power to undercut. When the incoming governor is no longer incoming, then he gets to make the decisions. That's how the system works.
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You are making a pedantic distinction.

They are cutting the power of the governor's office just before another governor comes in. Do you have the honesty to admit this?
 
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Absentglare said:
You are making a pedantic distinction.

They are cutting the power of the governor's office just before another governor comes in. Do you have the honesty to admit this?
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I will admit such and I think it's fine and dandy.
 
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Absentglare said:
You are making a pedantic distinction.

They are cutting the power of the governor's office just before another governor comes in. Do you have the honesty to admit this?
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I'm stating a fact. Gonnado's don't count in politics.
 
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The Republican Middle class voters just can't help but to continue to cut their own throats. It is amazing.

Jindal screwed up Louisiana so bad even the other Republican politicians in the State couldn't wait for him to leave. He left the State in a disaster.
 
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