NC House votes to strip power from incoming Democratic governor, AG as part of Helene aid bill
NC House votes to strip power from incoming Democratic governor, AG as part of Helene aid bill
The state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general Jeff Jackson would lose key powers if the Republican-backed proposal becomes law.
Summary
The North Carolina House passed a controversial bill allocating $227 million for Hurricane Helene relief while including provisions to reduce powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general.
Critics, including Democrats, called it a “power grab,” citing changes like stripping the governor’s control over the State Board of Elections and limiting the attorney general’s ability to challenge state laws or advocate for utility customers.
Republicans defended the bill as necessary, but some GOP lawmakers opposed it.
The bill now heads to the Senate and may face a gubernatorial veto.
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God fucking damnit man. Our local shit going to the democrats has been like my only solace
Dem party of NC seems to be just as useless as the rest of the democratic party
Ah yes, it's the Democratic party at fault that the Republican party while they still had a veto proof majority ram thru changes.
I will never forgive them for doing such a shit job at vetting candidates that a democratic member would flip republican and give them the decisive majority. The NC dems were saved by an even more dogshit republican machine this cycle
That is fucking ridiculous. The woman who flipped was the daughter of an extremely popular state dem.
So nepotism? Imagine voting for someone because political dynasty.
Don't give a fuck who she is, she was meeting with republicans durring the campaign, they need to do a better job of picking candidates. No more nepotism hires
The NC Dems just won the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorneys' General, Superintendent, NC Supreme Court Seat, and broke the GOP super majority in the state legislature
Might be time to pull a GOP and do whatever they want anyway. "Think like an asshole" should be the Dems mantra for the next 4 years if not beyond.
Why we would ever go back to civility politics is beyond me. Cilivilty politics are planning for defeat, as everyone can clearly see. And yet despite that, I will eat an entire plane if the dems actually change for the better in any way.
Calm down, Monsieur Mangetout; you'd have to wait for the pig to land it first.
The last is really important because it will make the secret vote meetings harder or impossible for the GOP. The ones where the GOP made sure the few Democrat members would be not present for votes they wanted to win. Having to cheat to get bills passed, they must be so proud of themselves.
As for the title, I think they've tried this a number of times with past governors. They really, really hate that veto power that gets in their way of domination.