North Carolina
Related: About this forumNC House Speaker Tim Moore won't run for Congress, seeking another term as speaker
N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore will not run for Congress in 2022 the first major fallout from U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorns decision to switch congressional districts.
It had long been suspected that Moore, a Cleveland County Republican, would run for the U.S. House next year, and the new congressional map passed by state lawmakers earlier this month included a district seemingly drawn for the speaker.
The 13th Congressional District included Cleveland County and was home to no incumbent members. But Cawthorn, a first-term congressman, announced Thursday night that he would run in that district, instead of the far-western district that included much of his current district.
Moore, who has been speaker since 2015, confirmed his decision Thursday night, hours after The News & Observer first reported it.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article255751846.html
(Raleigh News & Observer)
bottomofthehill
(8,873 posts)The speaker is getting pushed out of a seat he created for himself by that empty fucking suit.
You have to be shitting me.
littlemissmartypants
(25,846 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,873 posts)But this is where the Republican Party is going and it scares the hell out of me. I dont agree with Speaker more on much, but Carthorn is dangerous, and crazy, throw in a touch of stupid and it is not good for democracy. The fact that he was able to force a Speaker who drew the lines of the district out with out a fight is shocking to me.