I just can’t believe what I’m reading today, on the my Twitter Feed, #SB2
Extremely disappointed in @joeldford and @SenatorClark in voting for #SB2 which goes against everything Democrats stand for #ncga #ncpol
— Colby Moore (@ColbyLMoore) February 25, 2015
MARK WALKER FOR U.S. CONGRESS MEDIA CONTACT: Scott Luginbill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2014 scott@walker4nc.com | (336) 500-3002
Walker and Fjeld Campaigns Announce Debate Agreement
(6th Congressional District) – Congressional candidates Mark Walker (Republican) and Laura Fjeld (Democrat) released a joint statement announcing their agreement on the number and location of debates in the 6th Congressional District election:
"In an effort to focus on the issues that matter most to voters in the District, our campaigns have agreed to participate in debates in both the Greensboro and Raleigh areas. We believe this will present voters with a full and fair examination of the issues, the candidates, and our positions."
Got a spare 11 min? Watch @JoshStein_ demolish the short-sighted budget that's short-changing our teachers https://t.co/PEZRkWkUs3 #ncga
— Logan Smith (@LoganJames) August 5, 2014
State House and Senate Democrats are calling on Gov. Pat McCrory to save federal unemployment benefits scheduled to end July 1 for 71,000 people in North Carolina.Raleigh, N.C. —
McCrory says that call won't be answered.
The event at the Grandover Resort is part of a retreat for the Renew North Carolina Foundation, a nonprofit that some of McCrory’s supporters formed after his election. Under federal rules, the 501(c)(4) group doesn’t have to reveal its donors, is not constrained by traditional political donation limits, and can spend money to promote “social welfare” causes, including political ones.
What is being said about this event,
The Grandover event concerns North Carolina good government groups, particularly since the timing lines up with the waning weeks of the current state legislative session.
Major bills — including the state budget and proposals to tinker with the state tax code — are headed soon to McCrory’s desk.
“It’s, again, another instance of big money politics,” said Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina. “People with agendas, who have lots of money, will have access to the governor.”
Remember,
The benefits are 100 percent federally funded, and cutting them off will mean the loss of more than $500 million, most of it flowing into the state's worst-hit economic areas --said State Democrats.
once its done this will happen,
The overhaul takes effect next Monday. Under federal rules, states that change their unemployment benefits lose eligibility for federal extended benefits, paid to long-time jobless workers who have exhausted other assistance.
Rep Joe Sam Queen had this to say,
"We are not recovering, and what we're doing at this General Assembly is not creating jobs,"
Blust was relieved from his N.C. Senate seat by current U.S. Senator Kay Hagan.
While demonstrators were chanting and sings inside the NCGA, House Rep John Blust, has to check things out from himself. Then he felt the need to make a remake then run for cover down an off limit hallway in the NCGA.
The statement made by him,
“People have the right to voice their opinions, but they don’t have the right to force them on others,” Blust said before walking away.
He made the statement in earshot of those organizer whom were there.
Yes, yet the NCGA Republicans are forcing their political agenda down the throats of all NC citizens.
Just another self righteous jerk who thinks he owns the NCGA, yet can’t face a crowd after making a statement then runs away..
1 day after NC Elections Bd says it will probe donations to McCrory by sweepstakes mogul, he clears the board: bit.ly/17nFP1P #ncga
RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory on Friday evening announced he was replacing all members of the State Board of Elections. The appointments take effect Wednesday – just as an investigation into political contributions made to McCrory and other top Republicans’ officeholders’ campaigns is getting underway.
Three Republicans and two Democrats will replace the current three-Democrat, two-Republican board. The board’s majority represents the governor’s party.
The move puts the progress of the board’s investigation into campaign contributions from an indicted sweepstakes software company owner in question.
Not surprising at all, he got caught and now he replace the Dem control board with a Republican control.. so he can cover up his illegal actions.. Thanks NC for electing a Crook as the Governor of NC..
I foresee no more probe on this matter..
McCrory spokeswoman Kim Genardo said the timing of the appointments had nothing to do with the investigation. All five members’ terms expire April 30, and McCrory’s office wants new appointments to be made on time. The governor selects members from a list of five candidates submitted by each party. McCrory selected the top two Democrats, Genardo said.
Just what the hell has she been smoking?? this is a clear attempt to make sure there is no investigation in this matter..
The three Republican appointees donated at least $16,000 to GOP candidates and causes in recent elections, according to state and federal campaign finance records.
Cover-up in the works.
If anyone believe this crap I have a bridge I would like to sell you, its located in VA and has a very large yearly income..
House Republican’s Propose To End 40 Hour Work Week LawHouse Republicans have introduced a bill that would end the 40-hour work week, dismantling an important component of the Federal Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 and hurting middle-class families across the country.
Sponsored by Rep. Martha Roby (AL), the dubiously-titled “Working Families Flexibility Act” (H.R. 1406) would remove the requirement that employers pay a cash premium for overtime work and instead allow them to offer employees compensatory time off. The effect would be an FLSA that is undermined of its only incentive against excessive hours and a cheaper way for employers to demand mandatory overtime.
Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist with the Center for Economic Policy and Research, says the bill’s major effect would be to hurt workers, “likely increasing overtime hours for those who don’t want them and cutting pay for those who do.”
IAM International President Tom Buffenbarger wrote a letter to Congress encouraging them to vote against the bill.
“Employers can already work within the existing laws to allow workers adjusting work schedules around family needs without changing the 40-hour workweek,” Buffenbarger wrote. “‘Comp time’ proposals let the employer decide whether workers can use any accrued compensatory time. Additionally, nothing would prevent the employer from forcing workers to take time off individually or limiting whether workers can use the compensatory time at all if it is too burdensome to the work-load.”
The bill was referred to committee and could come to a vote in the House as early as next week.
Yes she think the VAWA is only for Straight white women only. She doesn’t care if Black, Latino or native American women are abuses, and if they are lesbians then they get what they deserve.
On MSNBC, Blackburn pointed out that the latest iteration of the law protects “different groups” and thus dilutes funding for straight, non-Native American women with the proper documentation:
When you start to make this about other things it becomes an “against violence act” and not a targeted focus act… I didn’t like the way it was expanded to include other different groups. What you need is something that is focused specifically to help the shelters and to help out law enforcement, who is trying to work with the crimes that have been committed against women and helping them to stand up.
This is a racist that would make the KKK or Nazi’s happy to have on their side.
Who knows maybe one day Charles Blackburn will beat the hell out of her in front of her daughter Mary, while telling their son Chad that women are nothing at all, that they don’t deserve protection under the law, that they are trash.. After all they live Tennessee, and she is from Mississippi.
She was appointed to a posistion in NC Senate
| Office: | 520 Legislative Office Building |
| Phone: | (919) 733-5878 |
| Email: | Angela.Bryant@ncleg.net |
| Legislative Mailing Address: | NC Senate 300 N. Salisbury Street, Room 520 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 |
| Terms in Senate: | 1 (3 in House) |
| District: | 4 |
| Counties Represented: | Halifax, Nash, Vance, Warren, Wilson |
| Occupation: | Attorney, Consultant- Angela Bryant Consulting |
| Address: | 717 W. End Street, Rocky Mount, NC 27803 |
| Phone: | (252) 442-4022 |
Her replacement is Bobbie Richardson
| Office: | 1209 Legislative Building |
| Phone: | 919-715-3032 |
| Email: | Bobbie.Richardson@ncleg.net |
| Legislative Mailing Address: | NC House of Representatives 16 W. Jones Street, Room 1209 Raleigh, NC 27601-1096 |
| Terms in House: | 1 (0 in Senate) |
| District: | 7 |
| Counties Represented: | Franklin, Nash |
| Occupation: | Retired - Director of Exceptional Children Vance Co. Schools |
| Address: | 7309 NC Hwy. 561, Louisburg, NC 27549 |
| Phone: | 919-853-3617 |
the story at Think Progress:
Late Monday, House Democrats learned that the Republican leadership had once again secretly renegotiated its contract with attorney Paul Clement to defend the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act at the Supreme Court. This is the third time the contract has been adjusted, raising total costs to $3 million from the original $500,000 cap. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) both sit on the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG), the House body intervening to defend DOMA in court in lieu of the Department of Justice’s decision not to. However, they did not find out about BLAG’s new agreement with Clement until after it had already been finalized.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Today, on the floor of the North Carolina General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger said the following:
“For too many years, North Carolina tried to tax and spend its way to prosperity,” Berger said. “And for too many years, North Carolina lost jobs, lost businesses, failed to educate many of our children and struggled to compete.
“Our leaders had lost their way. And our state lost its place as the leader of the South, and the envy of the nation.”
North Carolina Democratic Party spokesman Clay Pittman issued the following response:
Senate Leader Phil Berger’s statement on the floor of the North Carolina General Assembly is disgraceful. The Senator seems to be forgetting that it was the Democratic Party that built our Community College system and our University system into model programs for the rest of the country. He has forgotten that it was Democratic leadership that has made North Carolina a consistently top-5 ranked state for business. He has forgotten that it was the Democratic Party that built the Research Triangle Park, that recognized that Pre-K education is the most important asset a child can have, and that have always known that good jobs grow from a good education.
Senator Berger also seems to have forgotten that his party has fought every step of the way to take us backwards. Just last year, under his leadership, North Carolina Republicans slashed funding for our schools, put profits for special interests ahead of the health safety our citizens, and demonstrated blatant disregard for racial justice. Senator Berger continued, saying “To my Republican colleagues, we must show our constituents, this state, and this country that there is a real difference between a Washington Republican and a North Carolina Republican.” As the NCGOP looks to disenfranchise over 600,000 North Carolinians, it looks like the Senator may have a point. While Washington Republicans have proven themselves more than capable of obstructing progress, the North Carolina Republican Party continues to show that they are eager to dismantle it entirely.
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Dear Governor McCrory and NC Legislative Leadership,
We, the undersigned, urge you as esteemed leaders of the state of North Carolina to reject efforts by extremists on the far right to govern only for the good of a few and instead, that you remain moderate, do what the North Carolina Constitution requires, and govern for the good of the whole. The Republican Party now has a super majority in this state and as all of us believe, with great power and influence comes great responsibility. We are praying for your courage to act as leaders in this new year and always for the good of the whole.
The Civil Rights and Human Rights Communities are more than willing to work with you in ways that will advance justice and opportunity. No matter which party is in power we have always challenged our elected officials to lift our state from the bottom and govern as our state Constitution requires: for the good of the whole.
We believe in order to fulfill this Constitutional mandate, our leaders must commit themselves to the following nonpartisan values: 1) Economic sustainability, addressing poverty, full employment, living wages, disparate unemployment and labor rights, affordable housing, targeted empowerment zones and fair tax reform; 2) educational equality - every child deserves a high quality, well-funded, constitutional, diverse public education - and access to Community Colleges and Universities; 3) healthcare for all and ensuring access to Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security and providing environmental protection; 4) addressing the continuing inequalities in the criminal justice system for black, brown and poor white people; and 5) protecting, defending and expanding voting rights for all people.
Some of you have indicated that your first agenda priority will be a photo voter identification law for North Carolina. Regardless of what some public opinion polls may indicate, taking these actions would do irreparable damage to the fundamental civil and human rights of millions of North Carolinians.
Moreover, we urge you to resist calls from regressive ideology that would push you to engage in what we deem to be ill-advised policy making such as tax policies that favor the wealthy, draconian approaches to the budget that devalue educational equity and accessibility, economic policies that ignore livable wages and punish the unemployed, and social policies that diminish human dignity.
We will be at the General Assembly for a bipartisan presentation on January 15, 2013 to further convey this message. We will be back on February 9, 2013 for our 7th Annual Historic Thousands on Jones Street People's Assembly Coalition. We have great hope for our state and with that hope we know we have no permanent enemies, nor do we have permanent friends, but only permanent interests and issues.
Respectfully,
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II
President, North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
Three of North Carolina’s newest congressional representatives - Reps. Richard Hudson, Mark Meadows, and George Holding – joined veteran Republican Virginia Foxx in voting against the federal aid.
Ok Virginia Fox is an bitch that need to be voted out of office, but these 3 freshman need to be one term Reps..
Women, you need to wake up. Women have to ask themselves who's going to have and be there for you. I can promise you, I know, that Mitt will be there for you. He will stand up for you, he will hear your voices.
Ann need to take off her rose color glasses.
I guess she has been living in a cave too.
We have watched the Republicans fight to take away women health care, make major cuts to Domestic Violence programs and block bills that would have give women equal pay for equal work..
Now Ann wants the women of the US to Vote for her husband by stating that he will be there for them, yeah right. Well, maybe if they give him very large checks..
—Former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate, speaking at the Family Research Council's Value Voters Summit
Wow, it has seen the light and finally said something that was true..
THE Republicans have introduced the following,
44 bills on abortion, to control what women do.
99 on religion, mixing religion and state
71 on family relationships
36 on Marriage
67 on Firearms/gun control
522 on taxation, to try the mega rich more breaks and to screw the poor
445 on “Gov’t. Investigations”
and ZERO on JOB CREATION
any they claim to be the job creators what a bunch of crap..
