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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeath of Democracy: North Carolina Governor Signs Law Limiting Successors Power
RALEIGH, N.C. Amid a tense and dramatic backdrop of outrage and frustration, North Carolinas Republican-controlled legislature on Friday approved a sweeping package of restrictions on the power of the governors office in advance of the swearing in of the Democratic governor-elect, Roy Cooper.
Protesters spent a second day chanting and disrupting debate, as some were arrested and led away from the state legislative building in plastic wrist restraints.
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly referred to the move as a power grab carried out by a Republican Party upset that their candidate, Gov. Pat McCrory, had lost the governors race. Republicans countered by emphasizing that they had suffered similar indignities for many decades when Democrats controlled the legislature here.
State Senator Chad Barefoot, a Republican, said that the changes return power that was grabbed during Democratic administrations in the 1990s, and some in the 70s.
Protesters spent a second day chanting and disrupting debate, as some were arrested and led away from the state legislative building in plastic wrist restraints.
Democratic lawmakers repeatedly referred to the move as a power grab carried out by a Republican Party upset that their candidate, Gov. Pat McCrory, had lost the governors race. Republicans countered by emphasizing that they had suffered similar indignities for many decades when Democrats controlled the legislature here.
State Senator Chad Barefoot, a Republican, said that the changes return power that was grabbed during Democratic administrations in the 1990s, and some in the 70s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/pat-mccrory-roy-cooper-north-carolina.html
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Death of Democracy: North Carolina Governor Signs Law Limiting Successors Power (Original Post)
spanone
Dec 2016
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Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)1. Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka.
We need leaders to organize resistance. We all want to do something, but don't know what will be effective.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. One hopes that the incoming Governor
can find some workarounds to this charming legislative effort and perhaps a means to figuratively stick an elbow into the ribs of those members who lead the efforts to come up with this concept.
Karma can be a real B*%CH sometimes.
spanone
(135,886 posts)3. he's vowed to take them to court.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)4. A good start
but, I am sure there are many subtle means of paying back their "charming" efforts in spades over the next 4 years, one district at a time .
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,438 posts)5. Yet
That "power grab" didn't bother them at all while McCrory was in office. Coincidence?
2naSalit
(86,804 posts)6. Right? nt