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Ongoing NC GOP debacle thread

Milhouse said:
what's the point from a democrat perspective?
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Same as the Republicans, to win elections. Democrats want to get people who benefit the least from the way government works to go vote to change it whereas Republicans want them to believe it doesn't matter.
 
"October 2, 2014 The Secret Service's public humiliation and the country's first Ebola diagnosis—topics that would appear at least one step removed from partisan warfare—aren't ready-made issues for the campaign trail. But in roughly 24 hours, one candidate has managed to insert both into his own race.

Thom Tillis, the Republican Senate nominee from North Carolina, on Thursday called on President Obama to ban travel from Ebola-stricken countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, arguing that people from those countries could be vectors for the deadly disease. Just a day earlier, Tillis chided his opponent, Sen. Kay Hagan, and Obama for the Secret Service's litany of recent mistakes.

In both instances, the criticism made essentially the same point: The president can't keep America safe.

"How on earth can you protect the nation if you can't protect the White House?" he asked, according to an account of his speech Wednesday."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ebola-scare-secret-service-enter-campaign-politics-20141002
 
WFFaithful said:
"October 2, 2014 The Secret Service's public humiliation and the country's first Ebola diagnosis—topics that would appear at least one step removed from partisan warfare—aren't ready-made issues for the campaign trail. But in roughly 24 hours, one candidate has managed to insert both into his own race.

Thom Tillis, the Republican Senate nominee from North Carolina, on Thursday called on President Obama to ban travel from Ebola-stricken countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, arguing that people from those countries could be vectors for the deadly disease. Just a day earlier, Tillis chided his opponent, Sen. Kay Hagan, and Obama for the Secret Service's litany of recent mistakes.

In both instances, the criticism made essentially the same point: The president can't keep America safe.

"How on earth can you protect the nation if you can't protect the White House?" he asked, according to an account of his speech Wednesday."

http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/ebola-scare-secret-service-enter-campaign-politics-20141002
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Just got a Tillis ISIS ad on Hulu. The basic gist is that Hagan = :willynilly: EVERYONE PANIC
 
This is the first year political ads really started messing with my internets. Not a fan.
 
As the years go on, these ads make less and less sense. They all follow the same basic formula, but they barely even use complete sentences any more. Ominous music, dark lighting, buzz words, cut to sunny and bright image of supported candidate.
 
Deadbolt said:
As the years go on, these ads make less and less sense. They all follow the same basic formula, but they barely even use complete sentences any more. Ominous music, dark lighting, buzz words, cut to sunny and bright image of supported candidate.
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Proof that the overall intelligence of the electorate is not improving at all.
 
Liquid Karma said:
Proof that the overall intelligence of the electorate is not improving at all.
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I'm not sure about that. Do ads have any impact on the electorate? The electorate may be tuning them out.
 
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2014/1...-academy-raise-more-red-flags-about-vouchers/

The latest revelation comes from a story this week by NC Policy Watch education reporter Lindsay Wagner about the school that has received the most $4,200 vouchers so far, the Greensboro Islamic Academy.The school appears to be in financial trouble, Wagner reports, as an online fundraising campaign to address a $150,000 budget shortfall has only brought in a few hundred dollars according to school’s websites.State officials received 170 applications from students seeking a voucher to attend the school this fall that had only 130 students enrolled last year. A lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the voucher scheme is working its way through the courts and the Court of Appeals recently ruled that the state must distribute the vouchers already awarded to students with the rest on hold pending the final outcome of the case.Greensboro Islamic Academy has received 43 vouchers totaling more than $90,000 in taxpayer funds, far and away the most of any of the 109 schools that have received voucher payments.It also appears the school has raised tuition in the wake of the voucher program. Wagner reports that the application for the academy two years ago listed the annual tuition as $2,850 per student for class sizes smaller than 10. Students in larger classes could pay $1,950.In the current school year the rates for the larger classes increased to $4,360, roughly the same as the $4,200 the vouchers are worth.​
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Wagner reported last year about a voucher-eligible school in Davidson County with three students and one teacher that meets in a private home, basically a home school that may receive public funds.That school, like many fundamentalist schools that receive vouchers, also uses textbooks that teach students that the earth is only a few thousand years old and that gay people have no more claims to civil rights than child molesters or rapists.

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lol, you mean the largest recipient of NC private school vouchers is an Islamic Academy? Someone wake up jhmd so I can show him what irony looks like.
 
Yes. Greensboro Madrassa is the biggest beneficiary of the NC GOP. This has to make it into a Hagan ad.
 
The Supreme Court set aside the 4th Districts ruling blocking some parts of the NC voter suppression act.
 
GOP ready to double down on the gay marriage thingy.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/10/09/5230369/gop-will-attempt-thursday-to-stop.html

Chris Brook, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, said Thursday morning that the resistance by the Republicans is futile and expensive.

“The legislature has had more than a year to intervene in this matter if they felt their interests were not adequately represented. They failed to do so,” Brook said. “Their last-minute effort to participate in this litigation is incomprehensible.

“The result here is no longer in doubt. The freedom to marry is coming to North Carolina. The legislature should quit playing politics by seeking to defend the indefensible.”
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