It doesn't matter whether you love or hate the Democratic Party. It doesn't matter whether you like the current leadership or not. It doesn't matter if you're an unaffiliated voter, a Republican, a Democrat, or a Libertarian. Anyone with her eyes open can see that Raleigh is out of control. So make plans to show up on an upcoming Moral Monday, either as a supporter or as a person willing to put yourself on the line for freedom and fairness.

Helped along by a supermajority of assholes:

This morning, the House passed HB 730 in a vote of 72 to 39. While HB 730 was amended to eliminate extremist language about contraception, the final version of the bill included three abortion provisions that would hurt NC women and families. “We are extremely disappointed that the majority of the members of the NC House put politics above women’s health when they approved the eleventh hour additions to House Bill 730,” said Suzanne Buckley, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina. “To call this bill ‘pro-choice,’ as Rep. Schaffer did this morning, is shameful and ridiculous,” she continued.

It is shameful, and should be enough of a catalyst to get every female of voting age out to the polls in the next election. If we fail to get this message out, we don't deserve to win.

The headline says everything you need to know about Grover and the rats who are dancing to his tune. Very good to see NC Policy Watch sharpening the edge of their rhetorical knife.

from NC Policy Watch

According to my colleague Adam Linker, at this afternoon’s public hearing with DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos on Governor McCrory’s plan to privatize the NC Medicaid program, there was more disinformation given out by McCrory’s appointees. McCrory’s Medicaid Director Carol Steckel said that the biggest myth about McCrory’s Medicaid plan is that they want private managed care. She denied strongly that they want to privatize NC’s award-winning physician-run nonprofit Medicaid managed care system.

This is simply incorrect. Here’s the presentation from Governor Pat McCrory introducing the Medicaid privatization plan. It states its goal of privatization very clearly on page six when it discusses the entities to which NC Medicaid contract will be awarded...