I just heard Thom Tillis call Trump’s slush fund “a pot for punks.” Is this what happens to Republican politicians once they finally take the blinders off and see what they’ve enabled?
No doubt the NC General Assembly's Republican leadership is trying to limit the political damage President Trump is causing with higher gasoline and food prices due to the Iran conflict. Now they must contend with the $1.776 rioter's benefit fund. They also know more progressive learning persons from blue states are moving here
I’m surprised the GOP hasn’t tried in North Carolina what was done in California years ago—drafting an amendment so that a “no” vote would actually count as a vote in favor of the amendment or have they!
"They also cluster these amendments in groups. They put six amendments on the ballot back in 2018 and it looks like they will have at least that many this year. Republicans seem to like to put them on the ballot in midterm years when their base might otherwise not show up."
You forgot one very important NC constitutional amendment the NC Republicans pushed on a ballot during a mid-term primary, abusing the amendment process: Amendment 1, outlawing gay marriage, put to a vote during the May primary of 2012.
"The vote on Amendment 1 was held during the lower-turnout North Carolina primary election rather than during a general election when voter turnout is typically higher. Furthermore, whereas the Republican primary was an active contest, the Democratic primary was effectively uncontested and thus had an even further reduced turnout of the Democratic electorate relative to what might have occurred in a hotly contested primary."
I just heard Thom Tillis call Trump’s slush fund “a pot for punks.” Is this what happens to Republican politicians once they finally take the blinders off and see what they’ve enabled?
No doubt the NC General Assembly's Republican leadership is trying to limit the political damage President Trump is causing with higher gasoline and food prices due to the Iran conflict. Now they must contend with the $1.776 rioter's benefit fund. They also know more progressive learning persons from blue states are moving here
I’m surprised the GOP hasn’t tried in North Carolina what was done in California years ago—drafting an amendment so that a “no” vote would actually count as a vote in favor of the amendment or have they!
"They also cluster these amendments in groups. They put six amendments on the ballot back in 2018 and it looks like they will have at least that many this year. Republicans seem to like to put them on the ballot in midterm years when their base might otherwise not show up."
You forgot one very important NC constitutional amendment the NC Republicans pushed on a ballot during a mid-term primary, abusing the amendment process: Amendment 1, outlawing gay marriage, put to a vote during the May primary of 2012.
"The vote on Amendment 1 was held during the lower-turnout North Carolina primary election rather than during a general election when voter turnout is typically higher. Furthermore, whereas the Republican primary was an active contest, the Democratic primary was effectively uncontested and thus had an even further reduced turnout of the Democratic electorate relative to what might have occurred in a hotly contested primary."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_North_Carolina_Amendment_1#Timing_of_the_ballot
The amendment was declared unconstitutional by the 4th circuit in 2014, with SCOTUS making gay marriage legal nationwide in June 2015.
Always fascinated by the ability to abuse power by letting voters decide?
You obviously can’t read.