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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:03 PM Aug 2018

GOP legislators seek to take power from North Carolina's Dem governor

BY REID WILSON - 08/26/18 10:30 AM EDT

North Carolina’s General Assembly on Monday will consider changes for two amendments that, if approved by voters in November, would dramatically shift the balance of power away from the governor and to the state legislature.

The amendments are part of a battle between the state’s Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and legislative Republicans, who hold supermajorities in both houses of the legislature.

The amendments would allow the legislature to claim more power over appointments to both open judicial seats and the state Board of Elections. At present, Cooper holds the power to appoint judges to vacant seats and to the Board of Elections.

All five living former governors of North Carolina, including Republicans Jim Martin and Pat McCrory, oppose the amendments.

“It’s not about partisan politics, it’s about power politics. And it must be stopped,” Martin said last week.

In a statement, Cooper’s spokesman Ford Porter called the proposed amendments “deceptive, unconstitutional and wrong.”



http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/403536-gop-legislators-seek-to-take-power-from-north-carolinas-dem-governor
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GOP legislators seek to take power from North Carolina's Dem governor (Original Post) workinclasszero Aug 2018 OP
GOP hates Democracy and they dont pretend otherwise. When will we get that? Eliot Rosewater Aug 2018 #1
Yup workinclasszero Aug 2018 #2
North Carolina has been the on-going beta test for GOP strategies. Ford_Prefect Aug 2018 #3
Exactly. appal_jack Aug 2018 #4

Eliot Rosewater

(32,536 posts)
1. GOP hates Democracy and they dont pretend otherwise. When will we get that?
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:04 PM
Aug 2018

NOTHING about the GOP is American or good.

ALL bad

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Yup
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:09 PM
Aug 2018

And like always the GOP is projecting by calling Mueller's lawful investigation of Putin's puppet a "coup" while they try to carry one out for real in NC!

Ford_Prefect

(8,202 posts)
3. North Carolina has been the on-going beta test for GOP strategies.
Sun Aug 26, 2018, 01:57 PM
Aug 2018

Expect to see similar distortions of US Constitutional powers made in the House and Senate soon.

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