NC REPUBLICANS WANT
SENATOR SYDNEY BATCH
PUNISHED FOR HER
“BLEEPIN” LANGUAGE
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
Some NC legislative Republicans are not pleased with bleeped over salty language Senate Democratic Leader Sydney Batch reportedly used in a recent social media post video complaining about the fact that GOP leaders in the NC General Assembly have taken over a year to talk about, but still not pass, a state budget to fund to properly fund government operations and payrolls.
Styled after a popular “Key & Peele” television show sketch, the video shows Sen. Batch acting as an “anger interpreter” for Durham Democratic Rep. Vernetta Alston, is complains about the state budget stalemate in perturbed but socially acceptable language.
"Instead of doing their jobs, Republicans are acting like a bunch of little ******* because they can't deliver a budget," Batch says after Rep. Alston in the video, with a bleep over the derogatory term.
During a subsequent news conference at the Legislature last week, Sen. Batch defended the social media video, saying, "They want to distract from words I choose to use in satire,” she said. “It’s really disappointing given the fact that they literally bend over and shake hands with and applaud a president who has, not in satire, said some of the most offensive things in this country.”
House Republican Majority Leader Brendan Jones (R- Columbus) brushed Sen. Batch’s criticism aside, demanding instead that Batch and Rep. Alston be disciplined by legislative Democratic leadership for their video.
"I am deeply disappointed to see members of Democratic leadership conduct themselves so unprofessionally in a public video," Jones said in a statement, apparently not realizing that Sen. Batch is a Democratic leader in the state Senate, and can only be punished by Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger.
When asked, Berger told reporters he had not seen the video, didn’t care to watch it, and dismissed what Sen. Batch had to say, or how she said it.
But the Democratic-led NC Legislative Black Caucus was very interested. In fact, the caucus issued a statement calling legislative Republicans “racist” for wanting to punish Sen. Batch.
“We have watched them display their blatant racism through shameful policies like their anti-DEI agenda — and no one tells them to pipe down,” Black Caucus chairwoman Sen. Kandie Smith, D-Pitt, stated. “But the moment a Black woman speaks plainly about the catastrophic failures of their one-party rule, then suddenly, they're clutching pearls. This is not a question about language. This is about who is allowed to be angry, who is allowed to speak the truth, and who is expected to stay quiet.”
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