Protests Aim at One Man Who Moved North Carolina to the Right

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6. Great Article on that influential RW'er Art Pope.

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NYT writer does add Fox & Friends "fair and balanced&quot HA!) at the end as snark...but all in all a great read about actions NC'linians are taking to roll back ALEC/KOCH/POPE agenda and taking over of our State.

NC Activists along with "Common Cause" are working on getting rid of the Gerrymandering. Not in time for the 2014 Vote...but, hopefully by 2016. There are lawsuits in the works from the DOJ...but not until 2015 will there be any hearings, it seems from the latest reports. Wish this could have been started in 2010..but better late than never.

From the last paragraphs of NYT Article showing the effects of ALEC when our state Dem Party was in disarray in 2010:

the reaction embodied the challenge that the left faces: as the economy improves and voters feel more secure in their jobs, largely because of national factors, antipathies toward the governor and legislature are likely to fade.

And even if the summer’s backlash carries into 2014, Democrats confront a brutal electoral map. The Republican majority in the General Assembly redrew district lines after the 2010 census to reinforce its grip through safe seats.

In the 2012 election, Republicans won about 52 percent of votes in State House races and 51 percent in State Senate races, according to an analysis by the Atlas Project. But because of the way districts were carved up, Republicans captured two-thirds of the seats in the legislature. Only a handful of seats are considered competitive between the parties.