NC Republicans ERASED this speech from the official record

[Norbert]

You can't get more succinct than this.

This is amazing!!

— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) 2025-10-24T00:58:59.898Z

It would be a shame if people kept posting this on social nedia.

[2naSalit]

1. Hopefully...

It will go viral to some degree.

[Chasstev365]

2. This needs to be made into a 2026 National campaign commercial

[FirefighterJo]

3. I do not know his name

But he showed my values. He has in his speach showed everything that matters.

[Norbert]

4. State Senator Michael Garrett.

This is not a one and done. He is on BlueSky...and he is a fighter.

[FirefighterJo]

18. Thank you.

[A_Steel_Magnolia]

5. Spot on!

NC State Senator Garrett is calling balls and strikes!

[Timeflyer]

6. That's a fantastic statement of truth!

"Democracy dies when politicians draw lines to choose their voters instead of letting voters choose them."

So many states, like Florida, will be facing this issue soon. We must fight like hell to make sure "entitled" Faux King tRump's bootlickers don't use "the President's agenda" to rig our voting maps.

[iemanja]

7. Outstanding speech!

[Champp]

8. Republcans cannot bear truth, instead Bear False Witness

so profoundly unChristian

[barbtries]

11. so profoundly tyrannical. nt

[Wonder Why]

9. To summarize, he said the repugs have shown they are traitors to democracy, the Constitution

and the American people.

[barbtries]

10. shared on bluesky and to fb.

Who is speaking, if you know?

[pat_k]

20. Michael Garrett (NC State Senate District 27)

Remarks in their entirety and link to his post on FB about the Republican vote to keep it out of the permanent record here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220745464#post19

[FakeNoose]

12. Repukes don't want to hear the truth, so instead they erase it from the record

[democrank]

13. Excellent speech, well worth listening to.

Thanks so much for posting this.

[niyad]

14. Colour me soooo NOT suprised at the hate-filled puke cowards.

[Luciferous]

15. That was a wonderful speech and shame

on them for removing it

[peggysue2]

16. Yes!

This needs to go viral, and then picked up and repeated by other legislators, state and Federal, across the country.

Turn this into a Truth Chorus ricocheting from coast to coast!

[justaprogressive]

17. K'n'R!

[pat_k]

19. Entire remarks on YouTube + Garrett's follow up FB post

Here are Michael Garrett's (NC State Senate District 27) 10/21 remarks in their entirety:

As is routine, a fellow Senator moved that the remarks be entered into the permanent record. What happened next sez it all.

And here is his FB post on 10/22:

Yesterday, I stood on the Senate floor and spoke truth about what happened in North Carolina. About democracy being stolen in broad daylight. About rigged maps and broken promises. About betraying every sacrifice ever made for the right to vote.

Then something extraordinary happened.

Senator Grafstein moved that my remarks be spread upon the journal, entered into the permanent record of this body. This is routine. It happens constantly. It's almost always done without objection, a simple courtesy extended across party lines for speeches on both sides.

The Republicans immediately objected.

They forced a vote. And on a straight party line, they voted to keep my words out of the permanent record.

In my entire time in the Senate, I have never seen this happen.

Let that sink in for a moment.

They rigged the maps. Then they voted to erase any record of someone calling them out for it.

This isn't about me. This is about what their fear reveals.

They weren't afraid of my words because they were false, they were afraid because they were true. They weren't blocking the record to protect themselves, they were doing it because they know history will judge them harshly for what they did yesterday.

More at the link. It is post worth your time to read:

https://www.facebook.com/michaelgarrettnc/posts/they-were-so-afraid-they-erased-the-wordsyesterday-i-stood-on-the-senate-floor-a/1216441893640361/

[Skittles]

21. PREACH IT, BROTHER MICHAEL

KEEP TALKING