Death of Democracy: North Carolina Governor Signs Law Limiting Successors Power

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Amid a tense and dramatic backdrop of outrage and frustration, North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature on Friday approved a sweeping package of restrictions on the power of the governor’s office in advance of the swearing in of the Democratic governor-elect, Roy Cooper.

Protesters spent a second day chanting and disrupting debate, as some were arrested and led away from the state legislative building in plastic wrist restraints.

Democratic lawmakers repeatedly referred to the move as a “power grab” carried out by a Republican Party upset that their candidate, Gov. Pat McCrory, had lost the governor’s race. Republicans countered by emphasizing that they had suffered similar indignities for many decades when Democrats controlled the legislature here.

State Senator Chad Barefoot, a Republican, said that the changes return “power that was grabbed during Democratic administrations in the 1990s, and some in the ’70s.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/us/pat-mccrory-roy-cooper-north-carolina.html

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

1. Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka.

We need leaders to organize resistance. We all want to do something, but don't know what will be effective.

[Sherman A1]

2. One hopes that the incoming Governor

can find some workarounds to this charming legislative effort and perhaps a means to figuratively stick an elbow into the ribs of those members who lead the efforts to come up with this concept.

Karma can be a real B*%CH sometimes.

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3. he's vowed to take them to court.

[Sherman A1]

4. A good start

but, I am sure there are many subtle means of paying back their "charming" efforts in spades over the next 4 years, one district at a time .

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Yet

That "power grab" didn't bother them at all while McCrory was in office. Coincidence?

[2naSalit]

6. Right? nt