“People ought to be able to have the opportunity to offer their side before it simply is made public on someone’s allegation,” she said. “It’s just about giving a little time to give everything a fair treatment. This is not about covering up something.”
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“The law’s secrecy provision could backfire against politicians since people would be free to describe filing complaints alleging serious violations, but the state elections board would be forbidden from disclosing what investigators actually found, said Bob Hall,”
LOL…guess what the NC GOP plans to line people up around the block to do to Dems. Guess.
How could this law possibly pass Constitutional muster? When Congress gets into a bind are they allowed to pass a law to apply retroactively to the current situation?
NC Republicans: “Move along, nothing to see here.”
The requirement to hold new primaries might run afoul of the Constitution. The law also veils the investigation, which may not be in the past, but, I’ll be surprised if that part isn’t challenged in court for violating some state-level public record or FOIA-type law.
This is the part where a famous scribe would say, “These really are the fcking mole people.”
What could you possibly be suggesting? The GOP is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful political party the country has ever known in its existence.
Fuck these fucking motherfuckers. See you in the appellate courts you failed to rig, bitches.
A small point of contention, they failed to rig in this one election, how many elections did they get away with doing this?
And I want to know who it was that figured out how to do this.
Why did they go to these lengths when their gerrymandering had been working out for them for, what a decade or more?
And why this district?
Are they other districts that they successfully did this and not get caught?
Evil Lives!
That’s not suspicious at all.
They don’t just say “Democrat Party” to be obnoxious. They have a problem with the word “democratic.”
I was going to say the Reps were shameless, but then I realized that’s a given. It’s getting harder to do in the wake of the continuing shit storm, but I want to retain some ability to be indignant and to hold tight to the hope and prayer that somehow, somewhere, there will be accountability.
The Repukers are Repuking .
Is it too late to nominate the North Carolina legislature for a Dukie?
Take comfort in the fact that Republicans across the country, and in the White House, are taking such extraordinary (and untenable) steps toward making themselves permanent.
It will not hold. And they continue on without vision, ideas or broad support from the electorate.
Fear, anger, propaganda and gerrymandering are signs of weakness not strength.
Then look at the fact that our last three Democratic presidents are still alive and well, doing great things for the PEOPLE of this country. One of them voted Most Admired Person along with his wife Michelle, in the Gallup poll.
Rejoice that the long arc of history bends toward justice, and…
“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I am not an expert on American History. But I suspect many of your answers lie in the history of politics and election rat fuckery in the South post-Civil War. Accelerated by a factor of 30 (at least) after the GOP fully incorporated the Dixiecrat Species.
Oh I think I have a handle on the broad sweep of rat fuckery in the South post-Civil War, I just don’t want this one episode that has come to light be the only thing looked at.
Just call it a funny feeling but “by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”
If you have any good book titles, I am in a phase of reading about the South. Have been reading on the legal underpinnings of slavery (In The Matter of Color by Leon Higginbotham) and anything I can get my hands on by C. Vann Woodward, and Confederates in the Attic within the last couple of years. Have a book on Massive Southern Resistance on my Kindle along with William Tecumseh Sherman’s autobiography. Anyway, Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote a majority opinion holding that the Voting Rights Act and DOJ supervision of locations with an especially rich tradition of rat fuckery are obsolete in our post racial society.