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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

Thanks for that article ConnorEl. Those numbers and actions will come home to roost shortly.
 
Starting to hear some rumblings of some sort of teacher protest coming for the start of the school year...
 
Starting to hear some rumblings of some sort of teacher protest coming for the start of the school year...

Teachers are just in such a lose-lose situation when it comes to civil disobedience. Teacher strikes are rarely well received by the public.
 
Agreed. A strike would be a bad idea. Some other civil protest could be effective to get attention outside the state. No way would their main target of the legislature and Republican voters care.
 
There was some talk of a teacher skip day on the first day of the traditional calendar, but I think that is going to be scrapped. The talks seem to be centered on sending a strong message without hurting the kids.
 
Looks like there is at least one group called RedforEdNC that has popped up and is at least attempting to organize. Not sure if the NCAE is behind any of it, but there is at least some grassroots efforts beginning.
 
"Hey North Carolina, turns out you have an education governor after all. That’s what Pat McCrory told a state chamber of commerce conference in Chapel Hill on Thursday. In fact, his speech was so pro-education and pro-teacher that we wonder if we maybe missed that advocacy during the recent legislative session ... let’s check ... nope, we didn’t.

Public school and teachers needed an education governor last month when the Republican-led General Assembly was crafting and passing a bill that cut net education spending in the next two years, eliminated thousands of teacher assistants and left teacher pay abysmally low. But now that budgets and bills have been passed, and now that lawmakers have gone home, McCrory suddenly wants educators to know he’s on their side."

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...governors-empty-support-of.html#storylink=cpy
 
Sounds like McCrory is taking a page from Rick Scott in FL.

A positive protest would be doing a 24-hour teach-in or something like that. Or instead of Moral Monday, teachers stay late and provide free tutoring.
 
It just blows my mind that with all of the fine institutions of higher learning in the state we have a governor that graduated from fucking Catawba. No wonder he doesn't value education.
 
As John Oliver said on The Daily Show, NC had ONE case of vote impersonation out of 4+ MILLION votes. They are intentionally disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of voters. As the show said, the law should have been "Dave can't vote and he knows why."

Why doesn't the NC Legislature just put a hood and a burning cross on the state flag and show their true colors.
 
Hell, it's not even racism...it's just lust for power. Who do blacks vote for? Democrats. Get rid of 'em. Who do college students and pre-registered 16-17 year olds vote for? Democrats. Get rid of 'em. Who do teachers vote for? Democrats? Run 'em out of the state.

To me, that's even worse than just being ignorant racists. At least then they'd just be bigoted morons...instead they're power hungry and are in full awareness of the consequences of their actions.
 
Can't find any newspaper reports on it. But the rumor going around here is that State Senator Ralph Hise had teachers lining his driveway protesting him as he came home. Never thought I would see the day something like that happened in overwhelming Republican Mitchell County.
 
"Hey North Carolina, turns out you have an education governor after all. That’s what Pat McCrory told a state chamber of commerce conference in Chapel Hill on Thursday. In fact, his speech was so pro-education and pro-teacher that we wonder if we maybe missed that advocacy during the recent legislative session ... let’s check ... nope, we didn’t.

Public school and teachers needed an education governor last month when the Republican-led General Assembly was crafting and passing a bill that cut net education spending in the next two years, eliminated thousands of teacher assistants and left teacher pay abysmally low. But now that budgets and bills have been passed, and now that lawmakers have gone home, McCrory suddenly wants educators to know he’s on their side."

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/20...governors-empty-support-of.html#storylink=cpy
There are some people trying to defend McCrory in the comments section and they're....truly terrible.

Such as one woman saying, "I have an idea. If you don't like North Carolina, move to California and enjoy life with 10,000criminals being released from prison. Your complaints are trivial in comparison."

What the hell?
 
Hell, it's not even racism...it's just lust for power. Who do blacks vote for? Democrats. Get rid of 'em. Who do college students and pre-registered 16-17 year olds vote for? Democrats. Get rid of 'em. Who do teachers vote for? Democrats? Run 'em out of the state.

To me, that's even worse than just being ignorant racists. At least then they'd just be bigoted morons...instead they're power hungry and are in full awareness of the consequences of their actions.

Who votes straight ticket? Democrats.
 
Which means it benefits Democrats more than Republicans.

The big issue is that straight ticket voting is quicker. Without it, lines will be longer and may discourage voters who have less time to vote from doing so.
 
Which means it benefits Democrats more than Republicans.

The big issue is that straight ticket voting is quicker. Without it, lines will be longer and may discourage voters who have less time to vote from doing so.

And where will that happen? Not in small town, NC where Republican's are strong...it'll happen in the big cities where democratic voting is strong. There'll democratic voters standing in lines while small town Republican's spend five minutes blowing through their local polls.
 
And where will that happen? Not in small town, NC where Republican's are strong...it'll happen in the big cities where democratic voting is strong. There'll democratic voters standing in lines while small town Republican's spend five minutes blowing through their local polls.

Plus this law is unique in the US in that if you are in line when the time comes to close the poll, you don't get to vote.

Holder needs to take this law to court. It's clearly unfair.
 
Plus this law is unique in the US in that if you are in line when the time comes to close the poll, you don't get to vote.

Holder needs to take this law to court. It's clearly unfair.

I have to imagine there are already plenty of people/organizations lining up to challenge these laws. Well, I hope there are, anyway.
 
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