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TexasTowelie

(116,749 posts)
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 08:04 PM Nov 2021

NC 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 Cawthorn’s 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)

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NC House Speaker Tim Moore won't run for Congress, seeking another term as speaker (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2021 OP
Un-fucking real bottomofthehill Nov 2021 #1
You know Moore's a republican, right? littlemissmartypants Nov 2021 #2
Yes I know he is a Republican bottomofthehill Nov 2021 #4
❤ nt littlemissmartypants Nov 2021 #3

bottomofthehill

(8,821 posts)
1. Un-fucking real
Tue Nov 16, 2021, 11:01 PM
Nov 2021

The speaker is getting pushed out of a seat he created for himself by that empty fucking suit.

You have to be shitting me.

bottomofthehill

(8,821 posts)
4. Yes I know he is a Republican
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 08:58 AM
Nov 2021

But this is where the Republican Party is going and it scares the hell out of me. I don’t 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.

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