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ProfessionalLeftist

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4. Absolutely. He and the rest of his GOP/Teabilly/Corporate-asskissers now in the legislature...
Sat Feb 16, 2013, 04:11 PM
Feb 2013

...were put there by Citizens United, The Tea Party, ALEC, et al. They don't give a damn whether they're popular or not. They're there to destroy this state just as they have destroyed Wisconsin and Michigan and a few others - they've got their ALEC model bills at the ready and their orders from the Koch Bros, et al. They're there to accomplish certain tasks and they will do so unapologetically and unconscionably. One of those tasks is making sure that even if the majority of NClinians are or vote Dem, that no Dem can ever be elected to office again for governor and that the legislature remains Republican-dominated. This is done via more gerrymandering, tons of outside money pouring in to buy Republicans into office and voter suppression. It's all on the list.

Buh-bye NC. You are now a corporate-pwnd fascist dictatorship.

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