Thread by @ncdave4life

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 1/8》Brett, those Democrats were liberals, not conservatives. Those who say otherwise are lying to you. They're taking advantage of the fact that many people are too young to remember it, and most of the rest weren't paying attention.

My State Senator back then was Janet Cowell.

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 2/8》When the liberal Democrats were gerrymandering NC to disenfranchise blacks & Republicans, Republicans sought reform, but the Democrats blocked it. Here's a bill I mostly wrote, to end gerrymandering in NC:
ncleg.gov/BillLookup/200…

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 3/8》Here's an article about it:
burtonsys.com/CarolinaJourna… (click to enlarge)

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 4/8》It was introduced (with small variations) 5 times by Republicans, but Democrats wouldn't let it even have a Committee hearing. I tried to find Democrats to support the bill, but I failed. None of them would do so. Not even one.

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 5/8》One Democrat promised to, but she reneged. My (then quite junior) State Senator at the time was Democrat Janet Cowell. She promised me that she would sign and support the bill, but the Democratic leadership apparently ordered her not to, and she meekly complied.

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 6/8》The Democrats complaining about Republican-drawn districts had no problem with the much less fair and more brazen gerrymanders that the Democrats used to inflict on NC.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1652039684082524161

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 7/8》Liberals had no problem with Democrat gerrymanders for the same reason they're okay with proven widespread voter fraud that could be prevented by Voter ID: because they don't care about fairness, all they really want is to win, by hook or by crook.
burtonsys.com/voterfraud/

@BrettBrooks41 @myfox8 @StevenLDoyle 8/8》It could be worse, it could be California. When I moved to NC, nearly four decades ago, I moved from California. At the time I left California I had no State Senator at all, because of the Democrats' gerrymander there. Read the gruesome details, here:

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1470975920559247369

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