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(11,441 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2015, 11:11 AM Mar 2015

Christensen: How the GOP plans to overturn Wake elections

By Rob Christensen -
rchristensen@newsobserver.com
03/14/2015 3:50 PM | Updated: 03/14/2015 3:50 PM

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The Senate has now approved a bill that would change how voters choose the Wake County Board of Commissioners – from a countywide vote to a district system in which everyone votes on two commissioners in gerrymandered districts drawn by Republican politicians with the aim of returning the board to GOP control. The board would go from seven to nine members.

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The Republican legislature pulled the same maneuver in Buncombe and Guilford counties and is considering a similar move in the Greensboro City Council districts – a sort of search and destroy mission to wipe out pockets of Democratic office holders throughout the state.

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The Republicans hardly need an affirmative-action program in North Carolina. They control the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, the two U.S. Senate seats and 10 of 13 U.S. House seats.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope last week announced Project Listen in Wake and Mecklenburg Counties to help the GOP do better in the state’s two largest and fastest-growing counties that have been trending Democratic.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/rob-christensen/article14413646.html#storylink=cpy

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Christensen: How the GOP plans to overturn Wake elections (Original Post) WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2015 OP

They forget one little thing they have pissed off so many people it will be hard to win them back kimbutgar Mar 2015 #1

I really thought Moral Monday's would have worked yeoman6987 Mar 2015 #2

North Carolina Dems outvoted Rs... again. WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2015 #3

they dont need fancy plans to win the election they will just steal it the old fassion way, rig it 1handclapn Jun 2015 #4

kimbutgar

(23,254 posts)

1. They forget one little thing they have pissed off so many people it will be hard to win them back

Reply to WorseBeforeBetter (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 11:40 AM

Mar 2015

We all saw on Tv the moral Monday protests, the protests at the Capitol. I think there is al lot of anger in North Carolina they are not aware of. There is perception people have of republicans in NC that will not change. Their past actions have destroyed their credibility.

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

2. I really thought Moral Monday's would have worked

Reply to kimbutgar (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 12:17 PM

Mar 2015

But the last election didn't have results I thought it would have. However, maybe 2016 will manifest into change I hope.

WorseBeforeBetter

(11,441 posts)

3. North Carolina Dems outvoted Rs... again.

Reply to yeoman6987 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 06:25 PM

Mar 2015

We were screwed by gerrymandering.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/05/gerrymandering-rigged-2014-elections-republican-advantage/

Prior to the election, Reverend Barber suggested that if Hagan loses, the blame will lie with Sensible Centrists who voted for Republicans.

If Hagan loses, though, it won't be African-Americans' fault. It will be because too many centrist Democrats voted Republican, Barber says. There are 800,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in North Carolina, many of whom are white. "You don't lay the blame of this election on black people."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/north-carolina-democrat-black-vote-kay-hagan

Unfortunately, there aren't enough blacks and FarLeftistEmoprogLoonyLibruls to have voted Hagan into office.

The Tillis campaign tied Hagan to Obama, who had a 56% disapproval rating. And in a military state, that would have been enough for the freedumb-ain't-free crowd to vote against her.

1handclapn

(105 posts)

4. they dont need fancy plans to win the election they will just steal it the old fassion way, rig it

Reply to WorseBeforeBetter (Original post)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 08:13 PM

Jun 2015

the government is so full of psychopaths we don't have a chance.

you will know when we are really in trouble when they start wearing their armbands outside their shirts..

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