This episode is just the latest act in the farce that is NC politics. This schizophrenic state routinely elects Democratic governors and then re-elects a GOP legislature which then passes laws to limit the governor's powers. And if the other side does have the votes to sustain a governor's veto, have the woman that ran as a Democrat switch allegiance (I wonder what the inducement was?) so that a governor's veto could be overridden. A few years ago the GOP was so threatened by deep blue Asheville, NC that it gerrymandered it into two districts so as to dilute the Democratic vote. This is a state masquerading as an educated, progressive, modern entity. In reality it is a big farm with a few adored and well-advertised colleges. I've not lived in a place where the next generation isn't expected to exceed their parents. A taker state, NC regularly cuts educational funding from the proposed budgets and fails to utilize Federal funds awarded to address natural disasters and other issues that help its citizens. Somehow that money gets squandered. Helene victims in Western NC are still waiting and I'm sure will wait some more-similar to victims in the Outer Banks areas.
This episode is just the latest act in the farce that is NC politics. This schizophrenic state routinely elects Democratic governors and then re-elects a GOP legislature which then passes laws to limit the governor's powers. And if the other side does have the votes to sustain a governor's veto, have the woman that ran as a Democrat switch allegiance (I wonder what the inducement was?) so that a governor's veto could be overridden. A few years ago the GOP was so threatened by deep blue Asheville, NC that it gerrymandered it into two districts so as to dilute the Democratic vote. This is a state masquerading as an educated, progressive, modern entity. In reality it is a big farm with a few adored and well-advertised colleges. I've not lived in a place where the next generation isn't expected to exceed their parents. A taker state, NC regularly cuts educational funding from the proposed budgets and fails to utilize Federal funds awarded to address natural disasters and other issues that help its citizens. Somehow that money gets squandered. Helene victims in Western NC are still waiting and I'm sure will wait some more-similar to victims in the Outer Banks areas.