NC lawmakers want to shield factory farms

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Interesting resource, Facing South, new experience for me. Thanks.

On the Senate side, the legislation's primary sponsors are Brent Jackson, who represents Duplin, Sampson and part of Johnston counties; Bill Rabon, who represents Bladen, Brunswick and Pender counties and a small part of New Hanover County; and Dan Bishop of Mecklenburg County. Duplin, Sampson, Bladen and Pender are among the top hog-producing counties nationally.

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On the House side, the bill's primary sponsors are Reps. Jimmy Dixon, who represents parts of Duplin and Wayne counties; Ted Davis Jr. of New Hanover County; David Lewis of Harnett County; and John R. Bell IV, who represents parts of Craven, Greene, Lenoir and Wayne counties. Besides Duplin County, Wayne, Greene and Lenoir counties are also major hog producers.

Both are from your reference article.

More here, from Under the Dome section of The News and Observer:

“I would submit that this proposed legislation would ... violate the N.C. Constitution in that it is specifically targeted at benefiting a particular industry,” Robert F. Orr, a retired N.C. Supreme Court justice, wrote in his legal opinion for the attorneys suing pork producer Murphy-Brown. “It would appear to attempt by legislative action to favor one litigant over another and deny the plaintiffs the remedies to which they are currently entitled under N.C. law.”

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/under-the-dome/article142968064.html#storylink=cpy

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