I've been in the state senate for six years.
Here's a list of just the political corruption by GOP leadership *I have personally witnessed.*
/thread - obviously/ #ncpol
And they confess!
Rep. Lewis: “I think electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats. So I drew this map in a way to help foster what I think is better for the country.”
- Purposefully delaying the vote on a veto override in the hope that a few members of the minority party won't show up (still ongoing!).
- Attempting to gerrymander the judicial and prosecutorial districts to rig those elections in their favor.
They undertook a major research effort to determine how likely African Americans were to use early vote and what type of I.D.s they were likely to have.
They even asked UNC how many student ID cards are created and the % of those who are African American.
They gave big speeches at the time about how this had nothing to do with race or voter suppression - but that was before their emails became public.
The court called it “the most restrictive voting law North Carolina has seen since the era of Jim Crow" that targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.”
“Neither this legislature — nor, as far as we can tell, any other legislature in the country — has ever done so much, so fast, to restrict [voting] access.”
False. They want lower turnout!
This leadership is - and always will be - thoroughly defined by its disrespect for you as a voter.
And now they're literally willing to *subject you to infectious disease.*