Starting to hear some rumblings of some sort of teacher protest coming for the start of the school year...
There are some people trying to defend McCrory in the comments section and they're....truly terrible."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
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.
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.