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- May 11, 2013
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(The Guardian) Democrats had plenty to smile about by the end of the day on Tuesday.
After years of demanding accountability for Donald Trump, they were treated to a series of somber-looking images of the former president sitting in a prosaic Manhattan courtroom, reduced, in their eyes, to a common criminal defendant.
Hours later, their preferred candidate prevailed in a consequential Supreme Court race in Wisconsin and in the Chicago mayoral race, voters chose the liberal candidate over his opponent, who once described himself as a Republican. But in North Carolina, their fortunes were reversed.
There a Democratic state lawmaker formally switched her political affiliation to the Republican Party on Wednesday, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the state legislature. It is a devastating development for Democrats in the state, and especially the Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, who had vowed to use his veto power to block hardline conservatives from advancing their policies during the final two years of his administration.
Here’s what the switch means, according to the AP: The party switch announced by state Representative Tricia Cotham, of Mecklenburg County, means Republicans now hold the 72 seats required in the 120-seat House to hold a veto-proof majority. Republicans had already held 30 of the 50 seats in the Senate needed to override vetoes if party members are present and voting, but until Wednesday, they were one seat shy of a similar advantage in the House following the November elections.
Recently improving margins for Republicans in the General Assembly, capped off by Cotham’s switch, have emboldened the North Carolina party to try again on topics such as gun rights, immigration and voting. Republicans also are interested in further restricting abortion following last year’s US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. …
“I will not be controlled by anyone,” Cotham said as she announced she would switch her party registration to the GOP. She said the Democratic Party is no longer a big tent party and tries to bully its members. She said that she was considered a “spy” and a “traitor” and that the turning point was when she was criticized for using the American flag and praying-hands emoji on social media and on her vehicles
After years of demanding accountability for Donald Trump, they were treated to a series of somber-looking images of the former president sitting in a prosaic Manhattan courtroom, reduced, in their eyes, to a common criminal defendant.
Hours later, their preferred candidate prevailed in a consequential Supreme Court race in Wisconsin and in the Chicago mayoral race, voters chose the liberal candidate over his opponent, who once described himself as a Republican. But in North Carolina, their fortunes were reversed.
There a Democratic state lawmaker formally switched her political affiliation to the Republican Party on Wednesday, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the state legislature. It is a devastating development for Democrats in the state, and especially the Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, who had vowed to use his veto power to block hardline conservatives from advancing their policies during the final two years of his administration.
Here’s what the switch means, according to the AP: The party switch announced by state Representative Tricia Cotham, of Mecklenburg County, means Republicans now hold the 72 seats required in the 120-seat House to hold a veto-proof majority. Republicans had already held 30 of the 50 seats in the Senate needed to override vetoes if party members are present and voting, but until Wednesday, they were one seat shy of a similar advantage in the House following the November elections.
Recently improving margins for Republicans in the General Assembly, capped off by Cotham’s switch, have emboldened the North Carolina party to try again on topics such as gun rights, immigration and voting. Republicans also are interested in further restricting abortion following last year’s US Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. …
“I will not be controlled by anyone,” Cotham said as she announced she would switch her party registration to the GOP. She said the Democratic Party is no longer a big tent party and tries to bully its members. She said that she was considered a “spy” and a “traitor” and that the turning point was when she was criticized for using the American flag and praying-hands emoji on social media and on her vehicles
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