Moral Monday crowd rallies for womens rights (NC) Great Pix & Barber Speech

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22. Awk! Thankful Tuesday:

I guess they are thankful--they think Santa has arrived and they'll get everything on their list. This story is from today:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/15/3031913/gop-supporters-to-gather-at-legislature.html

Speakers will focus on two key issues, tax reform and Voter ID laws, Rusher said.

“We actually have overwhelming support for Voter ID, and we’re happy to be moving on that one as well,” he said. After a state Voter ID bill sat in a Senate committee for two months, a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the 1965 Voting Rights Act has brought it back into play. The bill will come up in the Senate Rules Committee this week, said Chairman Tom Apodaca, a Hendersonville Republican.

Francis De Luca, president of the Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank, said he doesn’t support holding an event like Thankful Tuesday. The left-wing groups that gather on Mondays have more heft than Thankful Tuesday organizers. If the GOP did manage to draw a big crowd, it’d be quite a success, he said.

“It’s a lot harder to get people to come out and support things that people are doing than it is to get them to rally against something,” De Luca said.

Republican leaders want to reward legislators for sticking to their principles during a tumultuous session, said Donna Williams, the Wake County GOP chairwoman. The event has evolved over time – its name changed from “Truthful Tuesday” to “Thankful Tuesday.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/15/3031913/gop-supporters-to-gather-at-legislature.html#storylink=cpy