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Sen. Jeff Jackson

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6 May

BREAKING: This morning, a bill (S636) passed a Senate committee which would take dark campaign money and make it even darker.

The title is “Donor Privacy,” which right off the bat raises a red flag because this is an area that needs more transparency, not more privacy.

#ncpol

In short, the bill says that non-profits can now conceal who their donors are.

Sounds harmless? Here’s what’s really going on:

It turns out, there are a lot of non-profits that are actually “non-profits” in that they exist primarily to funnel dark money into elections.

So if you want to give a million dollars to a campaign, but you're blocked by the limitation on how much you can directly give to a candidate ($5,600 in NC), then you can give to a handy “non-profit” that will then spend it for you on that campaign.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

3 May

Here's what's going on with police body camera footage in NC and why it's become such an issue in the case of Andrew Brown:

In 2016, then Gov. McCrory signed HB 972 into law. It had passed the state Senate 48-2.

I was one of the 2 who voted against it.

/thread/ #ncpol

The bill essentially said that bodycam footage would no longer be considered a "public record."

As a result, it created two pathways for people to see the footage.

The first pathway just lets people view the footage in private and does not release it to the public.

The rule on this is the police get to determine who views the footage privately.

So if you think you were mistreated during a traffic stop and you want to see the footage - privately, with no public release - the police essentially get to determine whether or not that happens.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

30 Apr

Breaking: The former head of the NCGOP just reported there are plans to heavily gerrymander our congressional districts this year.

Current NC map: 8 GOP, 5 DEM

Reported new map: 10 GOP, 4 DEM

This would be open corruption, perpetrated against you, the voter.

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The report was published in the Carolina Journal:

"Carolina Journal has learned that GOP redistricting leaders will consider approving a new map designed to elect a 10 Republicans and four Democrats beginning in 2022."

Source: web.archive.org/web/2021042620…

A few important points:

- This report was written by the former executive director of the NC GOP. He is a noted insider, employed for “journalism” for that specific reason.

- After an immediate backlash, the report was recently edited to omit the 10-4 reference.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

28 Apr

Transparency is key to accountability.

We know it took the footage of George Floyd’s murder to get the correct verdict. Even with it, we were holding our breath.

Andrew Brown’s family deserves accountability. The footage should be released now.
npr.org/2021/04/28/991…

So what can we do?

Gov. Cooper has called for a special prosecutor. That’s good.

The FBI is investigating as well. Also good.

But we also need to repeal the parts of H972 that limit access to bodycam footage.

I was one of two Senators to vote against that bill because of situations like this.

That law stacks the deck against public access. And pushing away the public doesn’t solve anything.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

8 Apr

Truly awful stuff:

A bill filed in our state legislature this week (SB514) would require that teachers report in writing to a student’s parents if they’ve “exhibited symptoms of gender nonconformity.”

So, the length of their hair? The colors they're wearing?

Read for yourself:

Can you imagine the chaos this would create in high schools across our state if it became law, the constant discussion among students and teachers about which student’s dress and behavior crossed the legal line into the mandatory reporting of "gender nonconformity"?

Imagine the leverage this would give high school bullies, how they could use this law to threaten to out certain students to their teachers.

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Sen. Jeff Jackson

@JeffJacksonNC

6 Apr

One of the things that energizes me is talking to people who do early childhood education for a living.

These folks are so passionate and impactful that it just revives me and I’m reminded of what an opportunity we have if we can make early childhood a higher priority.

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That’s how I felt in Iredell County this weekend when I visited their Partnership for Young Children, which runs their local NC Pre-K and Smart Start.

These folks are just unreservedly good and crucial people and we don’t spend nearly enough time spotlighting their work.

In our discussion, we kept coming back to the role they played during the pandemic.

When we were hit hardest last year, child care workers were one of the groups who carried our country on their backs.

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