Christensen: How the GOP plans to overturn Wake elections

[WorseBeforeBetter]

By Rob Christensen -
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03/14/2015 3:50 PM | Updated: 03/14/2015 3:50 PM

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The Senate has now approved a bill that would change how voters choose the Wake County Board of Commissioners – from a countywide vote to a district system in which everyone votes on two commissioners in gerrymandered districts drawn by Republican politicians with the aim of returning the board to GOP control. The board would go from seven to nine members.

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The Republican legislature pulled the same maneuver in Buncombe and Guilford counties and is considering a similar move in the Greensboro City Council districts – a sort of search and destroy mission to wipe out pockets of Democratic office holders throughout the state.

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The Republicans hardly need an affirmative-action program in North Carolina. They control the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, the two U.S. Senate seats and 10 of 13 U.S. House seats.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and Republican Party Chairman Claude Pope last week announced Project Listen in Wake and Mecklenburg Counties to help the GOP do better in the state’s two largest and fastest-growing counties that have been trending Democratic.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/rob-christensen/article14413646.html#storylink=cpy

[kimbutgar]

1. They forget one little thing they have pissed off so many people it will be hard to win them back

We all saw on Tv the moral Monday protests, the protests at the Capitol. I think there is al lot of anger in North Carolina they are not aware of. There is perception people have of republicans in NC that will not change. Their past actions have destroyed their credibility.

[yeoman6987]

2. I really thought Moral Monday's would have worked

But the last election didn't have results I thought it would have. However, maybe 2016 will manifest into change I hope.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

3. North Carolina Dems outvoted Rs... again.

We were screwed by gerrymandering.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/05/gerrymandering-rigged-2014-elections-republican-advantage/

Prior to the election, Reverend Barber suggested that if Hagan loses, the blame will lie with Sensible Centrists who voted for Republicans.

If Hagan loses, though, it won't be African-Americans' fault. It will be because too many centrist Democrats voted Republican, Barber says. There are 800,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in North Carolina, many of whom are white. "You don't lay the blame of this election on black people."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/north-carolina-democrat-black-vote-kay-hagan

Unfortunately, there aren't enough blacks and FarLeftistEmoprogLoonyLibruls to have voted Hagan into office.

The Tillis campaign tied Hagan to Obama, who had a 56% disapproval rating. And in a military state, that would have been enough for the freedumb-ain't-free crowd to vote against her.

[1handclapn]

4. they dont need fancy plans to win the election they will just steal it the old fassion way, rig it

the government is so full of psychopaths we don't have a chance.

you will know when we are really in trouble when they start wearing their armbands outside their shirts..