Editorial - Sensible districts would serve state well
Democrats in the N.C. General Assembly are experiencing the bitter taste of the same medicine they fed to Republicans all those years, when they used the redistricting process to their political advantage. Such gerrymandering prompted lawsuits, judge shopping and judicial redistricting. Now it's the other side's turn.
That is not license, however, for the GOP to create the same type of “inkblot districts” they accused their Democratic rivals of just a few years ago, however. And the first pass at several majority-minority legislative districts in the state House would make
With Tillis steering, ride fast, bumpy
N.C. House speaker led state to tax, spending cuts, regulatory changes. Critics say it moved too far to right.
Speaking to reporters near the end of a historic General Assembly session, N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis reached for a metaphor to describe how Republican legislators were transforming the state.
"We were changing the wheels on the car," he said, "at the same time we were driving down the racetrack."
"Countless frivolous lawsuits?" Unlikely.
I'm in danger of belaboring points here on a vetoed bill, but the hyperbolic rhetoric dial is still turned up on Senate Bill 33, the medical malpractice bill Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed Friday.
Take a look at Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger's statement on the veto, and particularly the first sentence:
"In countless frivolous lawsuits, trial lawyers win big and drive up health care costs for everyone ..."
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