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Christensen: How the GOP plans to overturn Wake elections [View all]
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
rchristensen@newsobserver.com
03/14/2015 3:50 PM | Updated: 03/14/2015 3:50 PM
....
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.
....
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.
....
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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