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SaveAmerica

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Thu Mar 24, 2016, 05:10 PM Mar 2016

Please help us in NC!! This volunteer is worn out. [View all]

Last edited Thu Mar 24, 2016, 11:31 PM - Edit history (1)

Our Governor and General Assembly are taking us right over the edge with their disregard for the Constitution and desire to infringe upon peoples' rights to keep a small group of scared people happy.

After volunteering here for 16 years I feel like I'm swimming upstream through glue and I don't know what to do. The biggest change would be getting Gov McCrory out of here and we're up against Koch and Pope money. Sending $5 and $10 and whatever you have to Roy Cooper's campaign against him would be a start I think. If anyone would like to do that, it would mean so much to us here.

http://www.roycooper.com/

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/41279

My brain is fried from the constant onslaught of political stupid that is happening daily (fed and state) but I'm hoping to have some more links to campaigns that will take out members of the NC General Assembly who voted to hate and discriminate yesterday.

I know it's looking like 1950 in North Carolina but we're still the place where the brine of the ocean meets the sweet fresh water of the river, sweet tea and Dean and Deluca share a street in Charlotte and our progressive beginnings in education are still trying to hold on. I think I'm talking myself into it almost as much as everyone else. It's like our state is on life support and the doctors are dingbats.

Thanks for listening (reading).

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I'm here, too. We have such a steep climb as activists in this state. I think some here blm Mar 2016 #1
So frustrating when you think back on the glory year of 2008! SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #2
I think Chaz Beasley will unseat Charles Jeter. blm Mar 2016 #14
Thank you for that link, I love what I'm seeing there. SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #18
The I-77 toll lane deal is what will hurt McCrory and GOP in this part of NC blm Mar 2016 #23
It's the voting machines RobertEarl Mar 2016 #3
I haven't used a voting machine in years. cwydro Mar 2016 #4
I want to hug my paper ballot every time I vote SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #6
I actually feel pretty confident in our voting machines here SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #5
The machines are still questionable RobertEarl Mar 2016 #8
There's always hope for NC and if the voting machines here SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #9
Overwhelming turnout RobertEarl Mar 2016 #13
I'm not selling anything, by law we can't have machines that flip votes in NC SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #16
It's the voting machines RobertEarl Mar 2016 #19
There is always hope, Let's meet back here on November 9 SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #20
I don't understand why you are letting Art Pope off the hook and laying all of this on Tanuki Mar 2016 #27
Art Pope loves the machines RobertEarl Mar 2016 #29
You should post this in the North Carolina group too. Triana Mar 2016 #7
Ok, I'll take a link there, thanks. SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #10
IF you have an Act Blue account this is faster Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #11
Thank you, I'll add that link to my post! SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #15
Asking a serious question of all dems here passiveporcupine Mar 2016 #12
I agree with all you're saying and I wish I had the answer! SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #17
You might be asking the wrong questions. noamnety Mar 2016 #22
Thanks everyone for your recs, I appreciate it! SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #21
Kicking for visibility and I will contribute a little something to get rid of McCrory Tanuki Mar 2016 #24
Thank you! SaveAmerica Mar 2016 #30
Getting Junior to come out as Trans would probably work. One_Life_To_Give Mar 2016 #25
I cannot believe this won't be taken to the courts still_one Mar 2016 #26
that is the plan - The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2016 #28
McCrony will lose. mmonk Mar 2016 #31
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