North Carolina Rep. Tricia Cotham, who won election to a deep-blue Charlotte-area seat as a Democrat just five months ago, changed parties Tuesday — an extraordinary move that gives Republicans more power to override gubernatorial vetoes in the state House and push their agenda through the legislative process.
The move further reduces Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s power to shape state law during his final year-plus in office. Cooper has spent the past four years able to veto controversial GOP-backed bills; Republicans lost their veto-proof majority in the 2018 “Blue Wave” elections. But the 2022 midterms went in the GOP’s favor, giving Republicans a supermajority in the Senate and leaving them just one seat short in the House — a seat Cotham now appears to be handing to the GOP.
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I am thrilled Trisha Cotham left the Jacobin Dem Party!
You must have meant to say, the Marxist cultist party.
Dollars to donuts says that instead of anything significantly substantive, we’ll get a bunch of social conservative BS that gets overturned in the courts.
People are slowly waking up from this woke stupor. Still, the communist left is continues to provoke us into an armed conflict that they think they can win.
perhaps some of us should oblige them? I remember in school, one evening, member of the Communist student organization was in the building posting bills of the wall. Persuaded him, saying he and his friends were no longer allowed to post their poison in MY building. For the remaining two years I was there, no placards or bills found their way into MY building.
Never…Trust a turncoat
Keep both eyes on her for sure.
Pray for another week…
Support these Bills today if you want to save our children in NC!
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The Senate deadline to file bills for the year is Thursday. The House deadline isn’t until April 25.
Senate Bill 560, the Medical Treatment for Minors Act, would prohibit health care providers from performing “gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age” unless certain criteria are met. The criteria includes visits to a psychiatrist for at least six month and the signatures of both parents.
Senate Bill 639, the Youth Health Protection Act, would prohibit the prescribing or administering of puberty blockers to youth. It would also prohibit certain surgeries, a masectomy, genital construction or removing otherwise healthy or non-diseased body parts or tissue.
Senate Bill 641, the Medical Ethics Defense (MED) Act, would allow a medical practitioner, health care institution or health care payer “not to participate in or pay for any health care service which violates his, her, or its conscience.” They could not be held civilly, criminally or administratively liable, according to the legislation.
Senate Bill 631 and House Bill 574, Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, would prohibit transgender athletes from participating in sports consistent with their gender identity. Sex, for athletic participation, “shall be recognized based solely on the student’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
Senate Bill 636, School Athletic Transparency, is a wide-ranging bill that deals with high school athletics. But it includes “biological participation requirements” that states again that “shall be recognized based solely on the student’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Republicans have scheduled a press conference for Thursday morning to discuss the the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act.” Lawmakers introduced the same bill in 2021, doing so on the five-year anniversary of HB2, the so-called “bathroom bill.”
We want Constitutional Carry!
And include knives in it too!
Excellent! Now let’s get Constitutional carry passed (and also include knives in the bill) strike while the iron is hot!