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.

  • DeadWorld@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Dem party of NC seems to be just as useless as the rest of the democratic party

    • MrTomS@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Ah yes, it’s the Democratic party at fault that the Republican party while they still had a veto proof majority ram thru changes.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        the Democratic party at fault that the Republican party while they still had a veto proof majority

        Dems rolled over to gerrymandering decades ago. The reason NC has a statewide Dem in office and a supermajority GOP legislature stems from the Bush Era redistricting that stacked the state legislature in the GOP’s favor.

        Dems had multiple opportunities to fix gerrymandering at the federal level and flubbed it every time.

        Almost like they don’t really want to win at all. They just want you to donate

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                1 month ago

                I’m not sure if you’re phrasing this backwards deliberately. But Dems in the House passed the For the People Act while Dems in the Senate (Manchin, most particularly) killed it. A compromise bill was crafted (by Manchin!), but Manchin and Sinema refused to exempt it from the filibuster in a rules vote.

                This was in 2021, of course. Dems had an even better opportunity in 2009, when they were sitting on bigger majorities. But, again, they dawdled and delayed and let guys like Lieberman play footsie with the opposition.

                Efforts to fix the disparity in the Senate by granting DC Statehood (and effectively guaranteeing Dems gain two additional Democrat seats) have also stalled in Congress indefinitely, going all the way back to the 1990s.

                In the meantime, Republicans turn the ratchet rightward by further gerrymandering districts, stacking courts, and expanding the pool of ineligible voters through caging/voter registration purges/etc. They’ve been at this since the early 2000s, and every cycle gives us more lopsided state legislatures. Wisconsin’s GOP can hold a supermajority with as little as 40% of the popular vote, for instance.

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                  1 month ago

                  lol ok Manchin and Sinema, two big democrats! Yup! it’s laughable you’d try to paint them as such. your disingenuous trolling is some top tier useless garbage

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                    1 month ago

                    lol ok Manchin and Sinema, two big democrats!

                    When Republicans hold office with a slim majority, they’ve got the power to end democracy

                    When Democrats hold office with a slim majority, the majority doesn’t count and nobody can do anything.

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        Nothing will change with dems in power. They won’t do anything to oppose republicans, no matter how much power they hold. Yes, it is their fault, bc they never, for any reason, oppose things that republicans do, even when it’s easy to do so

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        1 month ago

        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

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      1 month ago

      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

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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.

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          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.

          • grue@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            Calm down, Monsieur Mangetout; you’d have to wait for the pig to land it first.

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      1 month ago

      Why are people on this website so obsessed with defending the democratic party. I don’t understand what they are trying to accomplish.