After nearly party-line votes, Republicans in the General Assembly completed their first redistricting process in over 100 years. Since North Carolina comes under the purview of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the Congressional, state House, and state Senate maps must now obtain “pre-clearance” from either the Obama Justice Department or a three judge panel from [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Obama Threatens to Pull a Perdue
In the past few weeks, the debate in Washington over raising the debt ceiling has grown more and more heated. While it is assumed that both sides ultimately want to prevent the nation from defaulting on its debt, each side of the aisle has its own agenda to achieve along with the increase in the [...]
Poor in America: the rest of the story
What do the poor look like in America? In this morning’s National Review Online, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation reviews census data and concludes it doesn’t exactly square with the picture most liberals like to paint. For example, of poor households in America: 99.6 % have a refrigerator 81.4 % have a microwave 54.5 [...]
Voter ID Override Fails, Lives On To Fight Another Day
In an expected party-line vote, the North Carolina House of Representatives did not achieve the necessary 3/5 majority necessary to override the Governor’s veto of HB 351, the “Restore Confidence in Government” Act. The bill would require photo ID from voters. Despite overwhelming polling showing North Carolina voters are consistently in favor of requiring photo [...]
House Overrides Women’s Right to Know Act
The North Carolina House just overrode Gov. Perdue’s veto of the Women’s Right to Know Act (HB 854) with a vote of 72 – 47, the exact amount needed to meet the three-fifths override threshold. Rep. James Crawford (D – Granville) changed his vote to meet the one vote needed for the veto override. According to [...]
