Summary
The North Carolina House passed a controversial bill allocating $227 million for Hurricane Helene relief while including provisions to reduce powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.
Critics, including Democrats, called it a “power grab,” citing changes like stripping the governor’s control over the State Board of Elections and limiting the attorney general’s ability to challenge state laws or advocate for utility customers.
Republicans defended the bill as necessary, but some GOP lawmakers opposed it.
The bill now heads to the Senate and may face a gubernatorial veto.
This is exactly how GOP is going to play these games. They’ve given the insight to us now.
“Oh, you want us to pass bills that help the country? Well…only if democratic politicians got less power! waaah!”
Fucking parasites.
They also already did it in Wisconsin in 2018: https://www.axios.com/2018/12/05/wisconsin-republicans-strip-governor-tony-evers-powers
This is also a favored tactic when it’s time to hold the budget hostage with threats of a government shutdown a few times every other year too.
God fucking damnit man. Our local shit going to the democrats has been like my only solace
Dem party of NC seems to be just as useless as the rest of the democratic party
Ah yes, it’s the Democratic party at fault that the Republican party while they still had a veto proof majority ram thru changes.
the Democratic party at fault that the Republican party while they still had a veto proof majority
Dems rolled over to gerrymandering decades ago. The reason NC has a statewide Dem in office and a supermajority GOP legislature stems from the Bush Era redistricting that stacked the state legislature in the GOP’s favor.
Dems had multiple opportunities to fix gerrymandering at the federal level and flubbed it every time.
Almost like they don’t really want to win at all. They just want you to donate
I will never forgive them for doing such a shit job at vetting candidates that a democratic member would flip republican and give them the decisive majority. The NC dems were saved by an even more dogshit republican machine this cycle
That is fucking ridiculous. The woman who flipped was the daughter of an extremely popular state dem.
So nepotism? Imagine voting for someone because political dynasty.
Don’t give a fuck who she is, she was meeting with republicans durring the campaign, they need to do a better job of picking candidates. No more nepotism hires
The NC Dems just won the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorneys’ General, Superintendent, NC Supreme Court Seat, and broke the GOP super majority in the state legislature
The last is really important because it will make the secret vote meetings harder or impossible for the GOP. The ones where the GOP made sure the few Democrat members would be not present for votes they wanted to win. Having to cheat to get bills passed, they must be so proud of themselves.
As for the title, I think they’ve tried this a number of times with past governors. They really, really hate that veto power that gets in their way of domination.
Might be time to pull a GOP and do whatever they want anyway. “Think like an asshole” should be the Dems mantra for the next 4 years if not beyond.
Why we would ever go back to civility politics is beyond me. Cilivilty politics are planning for defeat, as everyone can clearly see. And yet despite that, I will eat an entire plane if the dems actually change for the better in any way.
Calm down, Monsieur Mangetout; you’d have to wait for the pig to land it first.
Why are people on this website so obsessed with defending the democratic party. I don’t understand what they are trying to accomplish.
For anyone wondering, I have this guy tagged as a fascist.
lol
You’d rather dismiss everything I’m saying under the pretense of me being an undercover fascist then rethink your world view.
Good for you.
“Undercover”?
I’m having a hard time believing you’re coming at this discussion in good faith. But by all means explain why you think I’m a fascist.
This is not the time to be giving up election oversight powers of any sort. Veto the fuck out of this bullshit no more weak pushover shit, let the citizens know when Republicans are holding their aid hostage to destroy democratic safeguards
At the moment, vetos don’t matter so much in NC thanks to Tricia Cotham. The makeup of the NC legislature is still being settled, so it remains to be seen if the aforementioned remains true going forward.
Not advocating for this… But realistically - shouldn’t Republicans be worried folks with terminal illnesses could start getting creative with how they interact with judges and politicians in their final days?
No. They’ve got the cops on their side, while liberals are too busy screaming at Trans people for costing them the election
Trans people?I haven’t heard this at all.
This is fine
