North Carolina is not a banana republic…
Democratic Sen. Josh Stein of Raleigh
in response to this:
The ALEC-sponsored bill to gut North Carolina’s clean energy standard failed last week in one House committee. But as the Charlotte Observer reports, last night it passed a Senate committee over shouted objections to do something most people take for granted in a democracy—counting votes to see which side has more.
All this makes me question if we’re living in my grandmother’s South. Republican lawmakers in North Carolina want to roll back many of this country’s civil rights achievements with a political agenda that is anti-democracy and anti-justice. They attack poor people, women and the LGBTQ and immigrant communities. If you’re not white, male, straight and Christian, you’re not safe with our state Republican lawmakers. Despite their actions…Every day I feel inspired by North Carolina’s rich history and legacy of freedom struggles…You can’t talk about the civil rights movement and freedom struggles in the United States without talking about North Carolina—the Greensboro sit-ins, SNCC, civil rights icon and pioneer Ella Baker and the Wilmington 10. State lawmakers…ought not forget how our grandmothers fought for freedom and taught us to fight for it too…These lawmakers don’t speak for anyone I know. They don’t speak for the social work students whom I teach and study…They don’t speak for my family of friends in North Carolina, who pay taxes here and who have raised children who are commited to building on what their parents and grandparents started.
Crystal Hayes, at North Carolina’s Indy Week
![It’s been nearly seven years since the last execution in North Carolina, but that could soon change…the state Senate passed a bill to resume executions…The halt in executions stemmed largely from challenges to the state’s lethal injection protocol and questions about whether medical professionals can participate in a state-sponsored killing. Additionally, the 2009 Racial Justice Act allowed death row inmates to appeal their conviction if racial bias may have played a role in his or her sentence…North Carolina’s move bucks the national trend towards repealing the death penalty. Six states in as many years have eliminated [it]…
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It’s been nearly seven years since the last execution in North Carolina, but that could soon change…the state Senate passed a bill to resume executions…The halt in executions stemmed largely from challenges to the state’s lethal injection protocol and questions about whether medical professionals can participate in a state-sponsored killing. Additionally, the 2009 Racial Justice Act allowed death row inmates to appeal their conviction if racial bias may have played a role in his or her sentence…North Carolina’s move bucks the national trend towards repealing the death penalty. Six states in as many years have eliminated [it]…
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…in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings. The bill, filed…by two GOP lawmakers…and backed by nine other Republicans, says…courts cannot block a state “from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.” The legislation was filed in response to a lawsuit to stop county commissioners in Rowan County from opening meetings with a Christian prayer…
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They used a computer to create an apartheid set of districts…
If Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Charlotte generally shunned confrontation over civil rights and mostly avoided violence, their efforts at amelioration were largely token in nature and did not disturb the fundamental social, economic and political order. The university at Chapel Hill and its cohorts in Raleigh and Greensboro…were nationally known for their academic excellence and open-mindedness, but it was well into the 1980s before any of them became more than tokenly integrated.
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It was bound to be close, so long as Romney put on his moderate mask. So assume Obama holds the West Coast, the East coast (toss out New Hampshire) and the usually Democratic Great Lakes Midwest. Loses the South completely—Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. Keeps New Mexico, but loses Colorado and Nevada out West. Barely—just barely—wins Iowa and Ohio. He’s left with 271 electoral votes. Because that’s how Obama rolls in these situations.
We shout together, we knock on doors. We tell people to get their voter I.D.s…Everyone is very serious about the election. I’ve done North Carolina. I just came in from Pennsylvania, then Virginia, I’ll go back to Iowa, Florida I’ll do a stint in, back to North Carolina and Ohio and then back to Colorado. Thousands of people are expressing their sense of being a neighbor across state lines to encourage people to vote, to remind people of the progress that’s been made and how important it is to protect that progress. Everybody’s in the trenches together.
there’s [an] …explanation for [Hillary Clinton’s] absence from the convention: legally, she can’t be there. Federal law—the Hatch Act of 1939, amended by Congress in 1993—specifically prohibits secretaries of state from attending political conventions, and the State Department’s own ethics guidelines also rule out political activity. A senior administration official…told CNN, “The law carved out the State Department as having a unique position in the government in that foreign policy, by its nature, must remain nonpartisan/apolitical.”
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![there’s [an] …explanation for [Hillary Clinton’s] absence from the convention: legally, she can’t be there. Federal law—the Hatch Act of 1939, amended by Congress in 1993—specifically prohibits secretaries of state from attending political conventions, and the State Department’s own ethics guidelines also rule out political activity. A senior administration official…told CNN, “The law carved out the State Department as having a unique position in the government in that foreign policy, by its nature, must remain nonpartisan/apolitical.”
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