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TexasTowelie

(116,755 posts) Sun May 10, 2020, 11:19 AM May 2020

State lawmaker calls for larger 'ReOpen' rallies in Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. — Even as public health leaders are warning Americans against gathering in large groups during the coronavirus pandemic, a North Carolina state senator is calling for a massive rally in Raleigh to push for businesses to be allowed to reopen.

In a May 6 interview with Sen. Carl Ford, R-Rowan, ReOpenNC founder Ashley Smith credited Ford with helping to inspire her to start the group and asked him whether the rallies are working to put pressure on Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to speed up the reopening process.

Ford said the rallies are helping, "but I'd like to see us have 10,000 or 20,000 in Raleigh. That would really get the message across."

The group's largest protest to date has been around 1,000 people.

Read more: https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/state-lawmaker-calls-for-larger-reopen-rallies-in-raleigh/19088906/

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State lawmaker calls for larger 'ReOpen' rallies in Raleigh (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP

Rowan Co 483 cases 24 dead dweller May 2020 #1

hmmm...so maybe there IS a way to fix stupid.... dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #2

How old is this guy? Didn't he hear about Spanish Flu? Vogon_Glory May 2020 #3

We have too many morons in our state. Jamastiene May 2020 #4

dweller

(25,044 posts)

1. Rowan Co 483 cases 24 dead

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2020, 11:26 AM

May 2020

nf'nt

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dixiegrrrrl

(60,011 posts)

2. hmmm...so maybe there IS a way to fix stupid....

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2020, 11:53 AM

May 2020

Jus saying...............

Vogon_Glory

(9,571 posts)

3. How old is this guy? Didn't he hear about Spanish Flu?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun May 10, 2020, 02:41 PM

May 2020

We went through a deadly epidemic all too much like this one and paid the price of a quarter million deaths in the official count and possibly three times more unofficially. WTF should we feel obliged to repeat our great-grandparents’ stupidity?

Jamastiene

(38,197 posts)

4. We have too many morons in our state.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 04:34 PM

May 2020

Way too many.

They are the loudest too. They get heard. We don't get heard as much. How could we change that? Or could we?

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