NC lawmakers go home, but ‘Moral Monday’ protesters will return
RALEIGH — The legislators might have finished their historic session and headed for home, but the demonstrators who have gathered on Mondays for the past three months will be back in the capital this week to protest what they describe as a sharp, screeching turn to the political right.
The NAACP, which has led the weekly resistance against the new Republican laws and policies, has organized a march and “Mass Social Justice Interfaith Rally” for Monday.
The Rev. William Barber, head of the state NAACP and chief architect of the “Moral Monday” demonstrations, said he was deeply troubled by the results of the first legislative session in whichRepublicans controlled both General Assembly chambers and the governor’s office in more than a century.
The Republican leadership largely ignored the demonstrations that resulted in 926 arrests and glaring national media attention on North Carolina. The GOP supermajority charged ahead with a budget and new policies that make cuts to public education, shift tax dollars to private-school vouchers, cut unemployment and Medicaid benefits, reform tax laws to provide a flat tax rate bringing larger breaks to corporations and the state’s top earners, while also hiking taxes for some of more modest means.
House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, and Senate leader Phil Berger, a Republican from Rockingham County, praised the session at its wrap as one setting the state on a path toward reform echoing the will of the 2012 voters.
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While they go home on vacation which means they have a job with benefits...while they go home which means they are not forced to live in the streets...which means they have enough food to eat,their kids have nice clothes and get to go to a nice comfy school....they also managed to get more $$$$ for their wealthy neighbors on the backs of those who have the least......YES a mighty fine session....I would be damn proud knowing I helped so few by hurting so many...great job!!! 
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