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@ForwardCarolina
Jun 19 • 6 tweets • 4 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Former GOP candidate @ScottRLassiter has accused Republican @NCHouseSpeaker Tim Moore of carrying on an adulterous relationship with his wife for 3+ years, naming him in a legal complaint.

This thing is... detailed. Yikes.
dailyhaymaker.com/complaint-spea… #ncpol
... wait, what? Image
The day after Christmas, @NCHouseSpeaker is in a Raleigh Biscuitville offering corrupt political favors to the guy whose wife he's sleeping with.

Just wait. It gets so much weirder. Image
Lassiter claims that @NCHouseSpeaker paid someone to install a spy camera on a tree outside his house for the purposes of blackmailing him - and he has evidence.

A pretty dramatic escalation of an already tawdry situation. #ncpol ImageImageImage
Ugly marriage drama aside, the bigger allegation in this complaint is that @NCHouseSpeaker has specifically used his position & power not just to seek out sexual partners, but also to coerce them to comply.

Moore's known to do favors for his girlfriends:
wral.com/story/speaker-…
The full legal complaint filed in Wake County:
dailyhaymaker.com/wp-content/upl…

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Apr 30
It's difficult to discern which of #ncpol's Republican echo chamber have convinced themselves of such an eye-poppingly uninformed view like Frank's here, and which are simply repeating it due to partisan solidarity. Nevertheless, it crosses into the territory of fantasyland.
What they never tell you (or perhaps don't even know) about this Democratic-drawn map was that it was highly competitive.

It was a 50/50 map, often 6D/7R. The party that won a majority of votes won the majority of Congressional seats.
#ncpol
Example: in 2004, Republicans won 51% of votes in NC for Congress, and Democrats won 49%.

Using the Congressional map @brianonorio showed off above, Republicans won 7 seats, and Democrats won 6.

Which basically makes sense. #ncpol
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Apr 29
The big difference between going to a movie or buying a beer (which require showing ID) and voting is that the latter is protected by the United States Constitution.

Citizens of the United States have the right to vote, as enshrined in the 14th Amendment. No qualifiers.
Many of the same people who believe that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms with no qualifiers whatsoever (which ignores the entire first part of that amendment) curiously believe that the right to vote IS conditional.

Partisanship, hell of a drug, etc.
The United States Constitution. Try reading it!
law.cornell.edu/constitution/a… Image
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Carolina Forward Profile picture
Mar 6
[NEW] The Political Geography of North Carolina

In a democracy, you have to go where the voters are. But what does that mean for leaders (and their challengers) in #ncpol?

To find out, you have to understand a few things about NC's "political geography."
carolinaforward.org/blog/political…
North Carolina's voters are highly clustered in just a handful of metro areas.

For example: half of all voters in North Carolina live in just 12 of our 100 counties (highlighted). A THIRD of voters live in just the counties highlighted in blue.
carolinaforward.org/blog/political… #ncpol
North Carolina is a 50/50 state - decided by just 1.3 points in 2020. Many (but not all) rural counties lean heavily Republican, but have so few voters that they're *almost* equally counterbalanced by extremely Democratic-leaning metro counties:
carolinaforward.org/blog/political… #ncpol
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Feb 27
Breaking: Based on evidence from Carolina Forward, the @NCSBE has launched formal investigations into two major #ncpol Republican politicians: @ECforNC and @RepMarkWalker.

Evidence shows major campaign finance violations by both in the 2022 cycle.
carolinaforward.org/blog/investiga…
In his campaign, far-right fundamentalist @ECforNC partnered with the Christian nationalist org @ADFLegal, which provided him with personal media training to obscure his radical prohibitionist position on abortion. Sykes failed to report it - oops?
carolinaforward.org/blog/investiga… #ncpol
The @ADFLegal is classified as a hate group by the @splcenter, for its published position in favor of criminalizing homosexuality and forcibly sterilizing transgender people.

None of that stopped @ECforNC, of course. He agrees with them.
carolinaforward.org/blog/investiga… #ncpol
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Feb 15
New survey data from @PRRIpoll shows how deeply infected the Republican Party has become with "Christian nationalist" ideology - the belief that America is rightfully a Christian "dominion" and that other faiths should be second-class citizens.
prri.org/research/a-chr…
Adherents of Christian nationalist ideology are significantly more likely to hold anti-Black racist views.

Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of Christian nationalists are white, elderly, and unlikely to hold a college degree.
prri.org/research/a-chr…
Christian nationalists are significantly more likely to say that violence may be necessary to "save" our country.

If you pay attention to what these people say, they don't see events like January 6th as a bad thing. More as prologue.
prri.org/research/a-chr…
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Feb 14
This is a popular slogan on the Right. The problem? All the data says the opposite.

U-Chicago: "Total foot traffic fell by 60 percentage points [at the outset of COVID], but legal restrictions explain only around 7 percentage points of this decline."
bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/upl…
Let's do more.

Here are researchers from the University of Washington who found that states "reopening" had variable and relatively little impact on consumer spending, because most people were choosing to lay low, because they were concerned about COVID.
arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08028…
Here in North Carolina, the "stay at home" order lasted for a total of... 40 days. From March 27, 2020 until May 8. Restaurants were back open on May 20th.

In Fall of 2020, every NC county was allowed to choose its own school reopening plan.
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