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

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23. CNN coverage today

Wolf Blitzer video clip at this link:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/16/politics/north-carolina-protests/index.html

Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN) -- Washington no longer has a monopoly on bitter partisanship. Much of the nation's political rancor has spread to statehouses across the country. And the weekly demonstrations outside the North Carolina legislature, dubbed "Moral Mondays," are only the latest example.

As they have for three months, liberal activists rallied once again on Monday outside the GOP-dominated statehouse to protest what they see as an aggressive and fast-moving conservative agenda.

"First the Great Recession. Now the Great Regression," read one protest sign.

"It's about exposing what's immoral and extreme," the Rev. William Barber II, a key Moral Monday leader, said.

Republican leaders in the state just walk past the demonstrators and their posters. Ever since they won control of the legislature and the governor's office for the first time in more than a century, they have repeatedly flexed their newfound muscle.

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Just this year, Gov. Pat McCrory and GOP legislators have cut unemployment benefits, rejected the expansion of Medicaid under the new national health care law, and moved to change voting laws, to the chagrin of Democrats.

On the same day of the latest Moral Monday protest, McCrory announced a deal to reduce state personal income and corporate taxes. Another check, Democrats complain, on the tea party checklist. (more at link)

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Comment on the article:
Good luck to the protesters. I am a Republican, but I am aware that our cause cannot long last with very poor leaders constantly in the headlines. The Republicans have already alienated every group imaginable. To attack the unemployed is the lowest of the low. They are rightfully seen as kicking the most defenseless among us into the ditch, picking the pocket of those who have almost nothing left in order to add a few more perks to their own lives..

Disgraceful North Carolina. Hope you enjoy your new found luxury. It is likely at the expense of many children, many poor families.