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Jun 10 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
It looks like the vendor the Green Party paid to collect signatures for its petition to get on NC's US Senate ballot, First Choice Consulting, is the same one implicated in the massive Republican signature forgery scandal unfolding in Michigan.
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover… #ncpol
Basically, First Choice Consulting, which has a history of fraud, collected tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures for GOP candidates running for governor in Michigan. They got caught, and now 5 of those candidates have been disqualified.
axios.com/local/detroit/… #ncpol
So it's at least... interesting... that the NC Greens, which are running a spoiler campaign to defeat the Democratic candidate Cheri Beasley in #ncsen, hired the same GOP firm to collect signatures for them.

Pretty remarkable coincidence. #ncpol
The Greens' 1Q finance report, for anyone who wants to take a look:
cf.ncsbe.gov/CFOrgLkup/Repo… #ncpol

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Jun 9
This is a really powerful ad. #ncpol
Note: one key difference between the coalitions on the left vs. right is that many activists on the right have really internalized message discipline.

They know that "we're going to overrule women's control over their bodies" is very unpopular. So they just don't say that.
The anti-choicers who feel most passionately about their cause don't constantly harangue Republican politicians to talk more about it. Instead, they pretend to care about other pretend issues to get politicians elected who will then do the unpopular things they actually want.
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Feb 10
So you hear this thing often about how many counties Republicans win in North Carolina, as opposed to Democrats - and why this makes Republican majorities inevitable.

Let's quickly explain why that's a lot of self-serving gibberish. #ncpol
Here's a graph of where North Carolina's population lives. Our population is heavily concentrated in large counties.

North Carolina has 100 counties, but half of our voters live in 12 of them. A third live in just 5. #ncpol
Republicans routinely win most of the smallest 75 counties of North Carolina. Collectively, those counties account for about 31% of all voters in our state.

Democrats routinely win the biggest 7 counties of the state, accounting for 64% of all voters. #ncpol
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Feb 9
So, this is happening today: @NCValues, an extremist-right activist group, is putting on a "School Board Bootcamp" training for right-wing activists to run for (or just harass) their local school boards.

They're also serving a free lunch. /1 #ncpol
For this training, @ncvalues is teaming up with the @FRCdc, an even more extremist right-wing national group.

The @FRCdc is so rabidly anti-gay (and Islamophobic) that the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled them a hate group: splcenter.org/fighting-hate/… #ncpol /2
Guess who else is at the "school board training" put on by far-right Christian fundamentalists and the DC hate group?

Why, the Art Pope network, of course! Both @AcademicRenewal and @johnlockenc are both represented there with speakers. #ncpol /3
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Feb 9
By the way...

@Dukeenergy GOP contribs in 2020: $347,000
@ncrealtors GOP contribs in 2020: $345,000
Mountaire Farms GOP contribs in 2020: $250,000

If Anita Earls was "bought," what does that make Brent's boss? Or @NCHouseSpeaker? 🤔

More: bit.ly/NC-PACS #ncpol
This is literally how it works, by the way. @dukeenergy pours money into protecting @senatorberger and the #NCGA GOP majority.

Then they turn around and let Duke's lobbyists write a bill behind closed doors for the GOP to rubber-stamp.
wral.com/secret-talks-u… #ncpol
Moreover: each year, @dukeenergy and @ncchamber write checks for millions of dollars apiece and hand it to @MartinandBlaine to run ads attacking Democrats. They run a dark-money group called "Citizens for a Better NC" on behalf of Berger/Moore.
wral.com/don-t-let-out-… #ncpol
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Feb 7
Here is how Republican state representative, and man-baby, Larry Pittman responded to every @NCLeg House member today in response to a routine, bipartisan message to get a COVID booster shot. #ncpol Image
This brings up lots of very interesting questions:

- When, exactly, did Pittman have COVID? He did not disclose anything publicly. Was the #NCGA in session? Was he there?
- Did he warn his colleagues, or NCGA staff, that he might be contagious?

Seems important. #ncpol
Pittman seems remarkably cavalier about COVID, particularly given that it landed his close colleague, GOP Rep. Keith Kidwell and his wife in the hospital, with apparently serious complications. (Thank goodness they're okay.)

Get you boosters, folks. #ncpol
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Feb 7
Poll: North Carolina voters overwhelmingly reject paying for religious instruction.

In the latest Carolina Forward polling, we find that voters broadly reject the concept of paying for religious school tuition with taxpayer dollars.
carolinaforward.org/blog/voters-re… #ncpol #nced ImageImage
North Carolina's school vouchers program, pushed by Republican politicians, sets aside millions to pay for student tuition at private schools.

The same politicians claim there's just not enough money to fund teaching assistants and nurses.
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In 2018, NC State researchers found that 76% of voucher-recipient schools (enrolling 91% of voucher students) were sectarian. 3/4ths of those teach a "literal biblical worldview," including a 6000-year old earth and denying evolution.
carolinaforward.org/blog/voters-re… #ncpol #nced
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