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CASH IN THE APPLE FOR 11-24-16
By Cash Michaels
LAUGHINGSTOCK
– Once again North Carolina is the laughingstock of the nation, this time
thanks to Gov. Pat McCrory’s inability to fathom two very simple words – YOU
LOST!
Call it
ego, call it shame, or call it whatever you want…Patrick Lloyd McCrory,
outgoing one-term Republican governor (if nothing else shifty gets in the way)
of the once great state of North Carolina (I say “once great” because McCrory
and his GOP colleagues in the state legislature have done such a marvelous job
of taking North Carolina so far backwards, I’m amazed Thomas Edison isn’t still
listed in the phone book) is doing his best, along with his cutthroat posse of
dime-a-dozen law-traitors to turn over every rock, nuk and cranny to “prove”
that nothing but dead people and vote-fraud masters gave his Democratic
opponent, state Attorney General Roy Cooper, a slim Election Day 5,000 vote
lead (which later swelled to over 6,600 by last weekend).
McCrory
just can’t take it. Donald Trump, the loud-AND-foulmouthed sex maniac the
governor backed for president won. Sen. Richard Burr hardly campaigned and even
got caught wishing out loud that someone would assassinate Hillary Clinton, and
he still got re-elected. Indeed, Republicans were claiming victory all over the
place on Election night.
McCrory
couldn’t stand being left out of the party, especially when his opponent, Roy
Cooper, got up on stage and declared victory long before anything had been
officially determined. Pat decided right then and there that he wasn’t going
out like that.
So all of
McCrory’s lawyers have fanned out, filing election protests in 52 counties,
hoping to generate enough “evidence” of voter fraud, in predominately-black
voting precincts, to “prove” that Cooper only came out on top because of “voter
fraud” on a massive scale.
So far,
upon review, out of 4.6 million ballots cast, less than ten have actually
proven to be questionable. There is that situation in Bladen County where folks
paid to help the elderly fill out mail-in absentee ballots did not realize they
had to also sign the form, but if true, that’s a mistake, not fraud.
Still, the
fact that McCrory is causing all of this ruckus just because he’s on the losing
end of the people’s decision, is shameful and sets a poor example. Let’s be
clear, Pat and his attorneys are manipulating the system in desperate hopes
that manna will fall from the sky and just award him the election. Never mind
that he is further deeply dividing the state at a time when folks are clearly
in no mood.
Never mind
that Pat McCrory never has been, and never will be a strong leader, let alone a
good governor. What Pat McCrory is is a snake oil salesman who masters the art
of swift and slick talking, always smiling so that folks will mistake his
brandishing of polished teeth for “true” grit; balling up his fists as a symbol
of empty determination; and talking in low tones to convince the listener that
Pat has the requisite cool needed to be a great leader.
This may
all end up in the Republican-led NC General Assembly, where state lawmakers
would surely vote to install Pat for another term, only to make him pay for it
by walking all over him again for the next four years.
Now is his
chance to show true leadership by taking his loss like a man, but Pat McCrory
can’t do that. Without the governor’s office, what else does he have to do?
Where else can he go to play pretend? Stay tuned.
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PLAN TO STACK HIGH
COURT
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
Whatever credibility
the Republican-led North Carolina Supreme Court currently has would be “totally
eroded” if state GOP legislative leaders try to stack the state’s High Court to
maintain a partisan advantage, warns the chairman of the NC NAACP’s Legal
Redress Committee.
Atty.
Irving Joyner, who is also a professor of law at North Carolina Central
University School of Law in Durham, isn’t buying published reports that
Republican legislative leaders are not considering the move to offset the
Election night victory of Wake Superior Court Judge Mike Morgan, a Democrat, to
the NC Supreme Court. Given how Republicans are scrambling to prove Democratic
voter fraud in over 50 counties after state Attorney General Roy Cooper’s slim apparent
defeat of incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, Prof. Joyner and the rest of
the NCNAACP have announced that they’re gearing up for yet another legal fight
in case Republican lawmakers not only attempt to stack the court with two
appointees, but also try to decide the governor’s race.
“Public support for our court system is
predicated on the faith and truth of the people that our
justice system is fair, unbiased and impartial,” Chairman Joyner said. “That
faith has been severely tested and undermined over the past ten years due to
obvious political decisions which the [state] Supreme Court and the Court of
Appeals have issued. The tepid support which the court system presently enjoys
will be totally eroded if the Republican Legislature moves forward with a plan
to add two political appointees to the composition of the Supreme Court in
response to the election of Justice[-elect] Michael Morgan.”
Morgan handily defeated incumbent
Republican Justice Robert Edmunds on election night, thus giving the court a
4-3 Democratic majority when it reconvenes for another term. But it wasn’t long
before press reports circulated that Republican lawmakers would use Gov.
McCrory’s special session on Hurricane Matthew disaster relief planned for
December to also add two more appointees to the state Supreme Court, thus
changing it to 5-4 Republican, even though the court is supposed to be
nonpartisan.
“The concern is, in light of the fact that the voters have stated
by their votes Tuesday that they reject the politicalization of our North
Carolina Supreme Court, [they] do not want the justices to have any political
leanings, and the voters want to make sure that our highest court is perceived
as being fair and impartial in every decision,” Morgan said.
NCNAACP Pres. Rev. William Barber,
promising a legal fight, echoed Justice-elect Morgan’s concern, saying that
adding the two court-appointees would be “wrong because it is a form of
partisan scheming designed to go around the people, and a vote of the people.”
With the McCrory-Cooper
gubernatorial race still in unofficial limbo at press time Monday, there is mounting
concern that the ultimate winner will be chosen by the Republican-led NC General
Assembly. No one has denied that as a
possibility, even though GOP leaders have denied contemplating expanding the
state Supreme Court address the Morgan victory.
"We have never really talked about it at
all," Republican Rep. David Lewis of Harnett County and chairman of the
House Rules Committee, told reporters last week. Senate President Pro tem Phil
Berger (R-Rockingham) said there had been “no [Republican Senate] caucus
discussions” about the matter.
But Atty. Joyner, based on previous
actions by Republican lawmakers who have held surprise votes on issues without
public hearings or notice in the recent past, isn’t buying their denials.
“These additions or the ill-advised effort to pack the court with
Republicans will be seen for what it is: a political scheme to over-rule the
vote of the voters which elected, by a large margin, Justice Morgan as the
pivotal swing vote on a politically evenly divided court,” the NCNAACP Legal
Redress Committee chairman said.
“Our courts should always enjoy the highest level of support from
citizens because it is fair, unbiased, impartial and worthy of respect. Adding
two political appointees to the court, as it is presently constituted, would
totally destroy the remaining faith that African Americans and
other racial minorities might have in the Courts of this State.”
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2018 MIDTERMS
NEXT ELECTION TARGET
by Cash Michaels
contributing writer
Two months
before President-elect Donald J. Trump even takes the oath of office, activists
and Democrats are already looking past their election 2016 defeats towards the
2018 midterms, hoping that they have learned enough lessons to gain some
ground.
But with
recent Republican victories in both the state House and Senate, as well as the
US Congress, any ground not gained now will be much, much harder to get in two
years thanks to redistricting, even though, theoretically, the party not in
power in the White House usually does well during midterms.
In 2018, every state lawmaker and
U.S. House representative just elected or reelected will be up for another
two-year term. Depending on how either a Gov. McCrory or Cooper are doing here,
or Pres. Trump is doing in Washington, will determine how successful the 2018
midterms will be.
To Rev.
William Barber, president of the NC NAACP, the fight for fair policies must
continue seamlessly from this year to 2018. “We have to,” the civil rights
leader said during a post-election day telephone conference, noting that there
are key battles in Congress activist groups are seeking to win.
“We have to
fight for the Voting Rights Act to be restored. We have to remember that in our
history, when we first got the VRA, we didn’t have the people elected in
Congress with a plan to do it. We created a context where they had to do it,
through marching, through civil disobedience and speaking out.”
Rev. Barber
continued, “ We’re going to continue to organize, to push out. We have seen
what 23-24 percent of the electorate can do. We’re going to try to get that to
thirty percent, plus Latinos.”
If there
is one goal Democrats have as a top priority, it is to regain majorities in the
NC and US Houses by 2020, the next presidential year, in order to control
redistricting. The party in power at the start of each decade redraws the
voting maps in their respective states and
congressional districts, thus making it tougher for the opposing party
to unseat the majority.
Since
Republicans took over the state House in 2010 and redrew North Carolina’s
voting districts to essentially protect their legislative majority in 2011, the
GOP has been able to confidently push its conservative agenda, reversing, many
Democratic critics say, whatever social progress had been made by the
Democratic majority in previous years.
Thanks to a
successful federal lawsuit against North Carolina’s 2011 redistricting plan alleging
racial discrimination, the NC General Assembly will be required to redraw its
map for the remainder of the decade.
But it really all boils down to one thing,
says State Senator Paul Lowe [D-Forsyth], and that’s Democrats making it their
business to come out in 2018, and vote.
Unlike presidential elections, African-American
and other communities of color don’t traditionally turn out in large numbers
for midterm elections, and the challenge is even seen as being greater now.
“Our people have to vote, Sen. Lowe,
an African-American, says. “Our people have to turnout and vote during the
midterm elections if they want to see things different. There’s no way to get
away from that.”
“Poor people, people of color, women
have the most to gain if they participate in the process, and the most to lose
if they don’t,” Sen. Lowe adds. “So we can’t allow midterm elections to get by,
and w don’t participate, because we voting on those things that will affect us
in most cases.”
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS FOR
11-24-16
COOPER DEFIANTLY
MOVES FORWARD WITH TRANSITION TEAM
[RALEIGH] Even though the state
Board of Elections and various local BOEs are still wrestling with Republican
allegations of voter fraud in the 2016 governor’s race, Democratic candidate
Roy Cooper is waiting for final
decision. Confident that he has a safe 6600-vote margin over incumbent
Republican Gov. Pat McCrory that will hold up, Cooper has put up a “We’re
hiring” on his transition website, and announced several members who will head
up his transition team. Meanwhile, prominent Democrats like Congressman G. K.
Butterfield are urging Gov. McCrory to conceded the race. As of Monday, 12
counties have certified their voter counts.
The McCrory campaign had file ballot protests in over fifty counties.
CHARLOTTE CITY
COUNCIL MAY PROTECT HISTORICALLY BLACK CEMETERY
[CHARLOTTE]
The Charlotte City Council is considering protecting Biddleville Cemetery, a
post-Civil War era all-black cemetery
founded in 1873, from development in the area. The council would designate the
area with an historic designation. The city’s Historic Landmark Commission is
recommending the designation.
NC CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
DEFEATS RIVAL NC A&T UNIVERSITY FOR MEAC TITLE, 42-21
[GREENSBORO] The Eagles of North Carolina Central
University are flying flying high after beating their rivals, the Aggies of
North Carolina A&T University Saturday in a rout, 42-21 to claim the MEAC
Championship for the third straight time in a row. The NCCU Eagles now prepare
to meet whoever wins the Southwestern Athletic Conference champion on Dec. 17th
for the Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl at the Georgia Dome.
NO TIME OR LOCATION
YET FOR THE DEC. 3RD KKK RALLY IN NORTH CAROLINA
It’s a week away, but so far, no
word on where the Saturday, Dec. 3rd Ku Klux Klan rally and march by
the Loyal White Knights of the KKK out of Pelham, NC will be held. According to
the white supremacist group’s website, the events will be to celebrate the
election of President-elect Donald Trump. Several white supremacist leaders,
including former Klan leader David duke, have hailed Trump’s election as a
victory for white people.
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