You still lost, asshole!
Are the NC and national Democratic parties paying attention??? This is fertile ground for positive messaging and finding Dems to run at the state level.
From somewhere in the deepest recesses of hell, Jesse Helms is looking up and smiling.
It’s not that he’s a sore lose. He’s a fascist.
I think the people of NC elected the incoming Governor under the assumption he’d have the powers the outgoing one has. So McCrory’s not only stripping the incoming Gov. of power. He’s stripping the people of NC of it.
So… The people have actually stripped themselves…
by electing McCrappy in the first place ---- consequences …
Mendacious, thy name is Republican!
Time for some traffic problems in (fill in the blank).
McCrory and his Repub minions are self-righteous, corrupt assholes.
The Republicans have a lot of class, all of it third.
Do they really think that the voters won’t notice or care what they did?
Yes, but those are their GOOD points.
I’m getting pretty sick of this shit. I think it’s time to take Sharron Angle’s advice to heart. The second amendment is our friend and I’m thinking we might need to use it.
Isn’t this why we have Lame Duck laws? So the outgoing party can’t screw the incoming?
Well Cooper has replied:
The Republican Party, in full and in its state incarnations, is the most dangerous enemy the United States has ever faced. Republicans are hell bent on turn the nation into a backwards country full of ignorant people ruled by a handful of rich, shortsighted, greedy fascistic overlords. And they are well on their way to succeeding.
Yes, and that is why even the Republican heavy NC SC will likely find most if not all of these moves unconstitutional (must be put to a vote in an election, not decided in either house). Gee, it must be great to see your tax dollars going up in smoke merely to smite a new Democrat, in a democratically run election. What a waste of $ and time!
The Republicans won more than 2/3 of the seats with 56% of the vote for Senate races and 53% of the vote in the House races. And that was with them running unopposed in many seats in the regions that are so Republican that there’s no point or way to gerrymander them.
Assuming that the court-ordered redistricting and re-do elections stand up (and they’re likely to be delayed by appeals), some good might be done. But most of those districts couldn’t be cracked with bunkerbusters.
Democrats now control four of the seven seats on the NC Supreme Court. That was our only other pickup. And it was huge. Republicans took what, at the time, looked like outrageously partisan and comically transparent steps to try to keep that from happening and they backfired, resulting in the defeat of a otherwise rather well-regarded moderate Republican chief justice.
Specifically, for about two decades various bar committees and concerned academics have been noodling about how we can make our judicial races less partisan. One of the ideas they’ve passed around is the idea of gubernatorial appointment followed by a retention election eight years later. Then came 2010.
One of the first things they did was repeal the public funding for judicial elections law. (Candidates had to raise a certain amount of money in contributions of $50.00 or less to show they were serious and, if they met that threshold, got public financing.) It was working great at keeping elections sane and non-partisan, and, of course, they weren’t having that. They also passed a law specifying that the name of the “nonpartisan” candidate on the “nonpartisan” judicial races who happened to be of the same party as the sitting governor would go first.
Then they took note of the fact that there were more Democratic than Republicans up for reelection to the Court of Appeals but only one Supreme Court justice, the chief, who was Republican, was up. So they passed a law giving Supreme Court justices–and only Supreme Court justices–the option of merely standing in a retention election to be held during the primaries, rather than a contested election. To his ever-lasting shame, Bob Edmunds, the chief, took that option despite a challenge to it’s constitutionality already having been raised.
Edmunds won his retention election. Then a three judge panel of Superior Court judges held the retention law unconstitutional (as it very plainly was). To his credit, Edmunds recused himself and the remaining member split 3-3, which affirmed the trial court ruling with without setting a precedent. (Same thing happening at SCOTUS right now). So a Court of Appeals judge hastily jumped in to the race against Edmunds and the whole thing apparently left a sufficiently bad taste in the mouths of those who vote all they way down to the ha-ha-ha nonpartisan races that Edmunds lost.
That loss of control of the Supreme Court is a major part of what set off this frenzied obscene cross between a coup de e’tat and a Roman orgy.
These people disgust me. Sorry I couldn’t offer anything more substantive…