Protect our #FreedomToVote!
Join us on Tuesday 9/12 at 1pm at the NCGA.

We will be joining the UNC students’ rally to End Gun Violence before we enter the gallery. #ncpol #ncga #DemCastNC

"All members of the Chapel Hill board are graduates of the university. Of its 12 appointed members, the board will include two women, roughly 17% and the same as the board’s previous makeup, and two members of color, one fewer than the previous board. According to UNC System enrollment data for the spring 2023 semester, the UNC undergraduate population was more than 60% female and almost 45% non-white."

They are also all Republican activists or donors.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article276842031.html #UNC #NCpol #NCGA

An additional shout out to #Lumos Internet for taking on the fiber project in the county as well.

A huge Fuck you to #Brightspeed, my incumbent provider, for not giving a damn about the service out here for the past 10+ years.

Also Fuck you to the #NCGA, especially the Republicans in the State Legislature, who took all kinds of 💰from the Telcos to block any local governments from trying to solve this earlier by “competing" with Time Warner and CenturyLink who refused to extend service.

Today’s press conference at the NCGA with Rev Barber has been postponed until next Monday 8/14. We’ll have more details soon!

If you or your organization would like to join us, msg us!
#ncpol #NCGA #DemCastNC

Fraud is a pillar of Republican campaign strategy. #ncpol

Notes from the scam that helped hand Republicans a veto-proof majority in a purple state's legislature.

- Tricia Cotham took campaign money from Democrats despite plans to switch parties.

- Republicans recruited Cotham to run for a 2nd #NCGA stint.

- No evidence supports Cotham’s contention that she was bullied by Democratic legislators.

Cotham offers refunds to ex-supporters she betrayed
https://notesfromthechalkboard.com/2023/07/30/great-news-rep-tricia-cotham-is-offering-refunds-to-former-supporters-she-betrayed-with-party-switch/ #fraud #betrayal

Education is driving North Carolina into the future.

Public education, at all levels, is what the #NCGOP and Mark Robinson hopes to defund, discredit, dismantle and destroy.

NC can't afford #GOP rule.

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North Carolina Emerges As A Electric Vehicle Leader

Why has North Carolina become such a positive EV investment area? One big reason is access to a ready labor force receiving the proper training and certifications.

https://clean-energy.thebusinessdownload.com/north-carolina-emerges-as-a-electric-vehicle-leader/ #ncpol #ncga #republicans #industry #business

Remember when Republicans created the term "partial birth abortion" to describe an extremely rare procedure so they could whip up fear and outrage? This is the exact same shit. Brought to you by the bozos who embarrassed the state with the infamous HB2 "bathroom bill."

We have got to unfuck and ungerrymander the #NCGA.

"Yes to some parents, no to others: NC House passes amid controversy the ‘Parents Bill of Rights,’ transgender care bills"
https://myfox8.com/news/politics/yes-to-some-parents-no-to-others-north-carolina-house-passes-amid-controversy-the-parents-bill-of-rights-transgender-care-bills/amp/
#NCpol #ProtectTransKids

All Americans should celebrate this ruling, the biggest news of the day.

#SCOTUS rejected the North Carolina Republican Party's plot to steal federal elections.

The law would have opened the door for other state legislatures to follow NC's horrible example, so the ruling effectively applies to all 50 states.

Supreme Court rejects fringe elections theory

https://msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/supreme-court-ruling-moore-harper-north-carolina-elections-rcna87123 via @msnbc

#MooreVHarper #SCOTUS #ncpol #nc #ncga #ncnews #politics

“I have lots of friends who know that if they get outed or their parents find out that they're trans, they'll get beat, or they'll get kicked out — my closest friends. It just makes you feel so trapped.”

#ncpol #LBGTQ #HumanRights #abuse #ncga #NCGOP

https://www.wfdd.org/story/north-carolina-house-revives-lgbtq-education-limits-final-days-session

I know it's basically a cliche at this point, but it is really disturbing and disorienting to see just how far backwards our state has come under a decade plus of Republican leadership in the NCGA.

Yesterday's abortion bill veto override is yet another example of the gross, completely dishonest abuses of power committed by an unaccountable legislature. This legislation simply is not supported by a majority of this state's citizens. And Tim Moore and Phil Berger *know* this!
#NCGA #abortionban

This article has a good roundup of what's in the NC abortion ban beyond the 12-week restriction: https://www.wral.com/story/more-in-nc-abortion-bill-than-just-a-12-week-ban/20841378/

Highlights include requiring that the initial consultation happen in-person followed by increased waiting periods, unnecessary TRAP building regulations that currently no Planned Parenthood clinics in the state meets, and criminalizing the mailing or "illegal advertising" of abortion pills.

#ncga #ncpol #abortion

I'm watching the votes in North Carolina today because I feel like it's important to bear witness as my state decides I am not a person, but an object. Because that is the effect of this -- if the decision to carry a pregnancy to term is not our own, we are not legally free and equal people.

#ncga #ncpol #abortion

Here's where you can listen to the NC Senate debate and vote on the proposed 12-week abortion ban, starting momentarily.

https://dashboard.ncleg.gov/Audio/2023/S/0/

The proposed bill is much more than that -- it limits medication abortions to 10 weeks and adds extensive TRAP regulations that will severely limit access in this state, and across the southeast.

#ncpol #ncga #abortion

What #NCGA legislator slipped this into the regulatory reform bill (HB 600) so they could perform a wedding this August? https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2023/h600

RT @scsj
BREAKING: The NC Supreme Court has dropped 3 decisions — they vacated 2 prior decisions that protected voters against partisan gerrymandering in voting maps and racially discriminatory voter ID & they revoked voting rights for individuals with a felony conviction #ncga #ncpol

That was Democrat Tricia Cotham then (2022):
"Now, more than ever we need leaders who will be unwavering & unapologetic in their support of abortion rights. I’ll fight to codify Roe in the #ncga & continue my strong record of defending the right to choose."
This is Republican Tricia Cotham now (this week):
“I was never someone who [believed] this was the biggest issue facing women in North Carolina.… To always be tied just to that tragic, hard topic is wrong, because women are greater.”

bUt vOTiNG doESn’T WoRK #NCPol #ncga #TriciaCotham #NorthCarolina

Wisconsin dodged a bullet but it hit #northcarolina instead. Here comes the stampede of bills from the #ncgop supermajority in the #ncga to turn us into Florida, Tennessee, and the rest of the backwards Confederate states. I’m sure she was compensated well for her defection. #ncpol

In an attempt to not totally lose my mind about the North Carolina political mess today, I started a daily roundup of notable bills filed in the #ncga. I have yesterday's (very bad) list up now, today's coming this evening. I did this for The Carolina Mercury back in 2013-15 and found it really helpful. Subscribe if you wanna: https://ncgadaily.substack.com/ #ncpol

Ironic from the party that has spent so much of its time protecting confederate monuments. #NCPol #NCGOP #NCGA