Thread by @PeteKaliner

Two things can be true:

1. GOP members of the NC BoE felt misled on what the consent deal would actually do.

2. The NCGOP lawyer (and/or other party leaders) told them they should resign over their approval of the deal.

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When the deal was announced, I said the GOP members should resign for voting for it - either for incompetence, an unwillingness to fight, or for their support of that deal. You make a mistake like that, and no - you shouldn’t get to stay on the board to make more.
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So, then the 2 board members resigned & issued statements. One said he felt misled. The other said he misunderstood the deal.
Are they lying?
Or maybe it’s as I said - they could’ve been misled AND have been told to resign.
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Reading the minutes of the closed meeting shows that Board members were, in fact, worried about eliminating the witness signature requirement. But, they were assured the deal wouldn’t do that.
And then the deal essentially did so.
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Deb Black’s FB comments that her husband’s resignation wasn’t “voluntary” don’t negate my objections. It’s also not entirely accurate, as they could’ve refused to step down.
But whether some GOP urged them to resign or not, the deal still does what it does.
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But, I understand that Democrats & their allies in the media see Deb Black’s comments as proof that the GOP objections were simply theater. However, her comments don’t prove this at all. In fact, they indicate that the reaction was genuine.
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Like me, Republican party leaders were so stunned at the terms of the deal that they lost confidence in the GOP Board members to serve. Urging them to resign would be the obvious thing to do. It was to me.
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Now, if you’d like to argue that the two GOP former Board members are lying in their resignation letters, I am open to that argument, and it wouldn’t take much to persuade me.
But the consent deal remains. And so do the objections. It still rewrites the law.
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