A Dark Day for North Carolina
It would be a dark day for North Carolina if the GOP ever won control of the NC General Assembly. Want a preview of their intentions if it did happen? Read on, but brace yourself, it isn't pretty. Or surprising, since it is the usual GOP agenda based on GREED and FEAR.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Likely to be outspent in the November elections and hurt by negative opinions of their colleagues on Capitol Hill, state Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their plans for what they will do if they win control of their chamber for the first time in a century.
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Berger and other GOP leaders said Tuesday that if they ran the Senate they would allow votes on proposed constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage, toughening eminent domain rules and limiting government spending.
The Senate Republicans also pledge in their 10-point "North Carolina First" plan to bring to a vote bills that would end in-state community college tuition rates for illegal immigrants; give merit pay to the best teachers; and reduce gasoline, sales and income taxes.
The AP article is the kinder, gentler version of this. For the red meat version of the 10 Point Plan, go directly to the source: www.ncgop.org/home/index.asp
Some of the "highlights":
-A Constitutional Amendment limiting the duration of legislative sessions
-Provide term limits for the office of President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives
-Make English the official language of government business in North Carolina
-End in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at North Carolina Community Colleges
-Stop welfare and entitlement benefits for illegal immigrants
-Stop illegal immigrants from receiving or renewing North Carolina Driver’s licenses
-Require a valid photo ID be shown when voting
-Use national tests to evaluate student performance
-Create a merit pay program for effective teachers
-Lift the cap on public charter schools
-Eliminate North Carolina’s “Death Tax”
- Establish a Taxpayer Protection Act for North Carolinians
-Amend North Carolina's Constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman.
-Enact meaningful medical malpractice reforms.
-Amend North Carolina’s Constitution to protect private property from being taken for economic development
- Require every person charged with a felony to provide a DNA sample for the State’s DNA database
- Make fetal murder a crime in North Carolina (Laci Peterson’s Law)
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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This is just the tip of their iceberg.
What they don't say . . . because they know they'd never be elected by a majority of North Carolinians . . . is that they want to outlaw safe and legal abortion, and criminalize women and doctors who are involved in abortions. They also want to teach Christianity in public schools, fund more faith-based programs at tax-payer expense, build more jails, execute more people, and screw the mentally ill and poor.
These are the Tarheel Taliban, pure and simple. And here I thought we were fighting them over there so we wouldn't have to fight them at home.
holy crap
not a bad idea, Republicans cant get anything good passed no matter how much time they have.
But not the members? Idiots
Heck no
Hooray fear
Stupid poor people and old people. They should know not to want to vote.
We should trust REPUBLICANS to objectively measure performance? HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
How should we measure effectiveness? What about teachers who start with the worst students? What about teachers who start with a room full of 4th graders who all work at a 6th grade level?
And so we get to the real "education" agenda
Why?
Why?
Fear mongering again. Here is a hint: ITS ALREADY ILLEGAL
In other words: Screw over patients so that doctors have no responsibility for their own actions. Oh the irony.
What about using public funds for private economic developement? Is that Ok? (everybody wave to Chucky)
Hello police state
Fetal murder? The conservative framing is weak with these puppets.
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Unconstitutional; Typical Republican
-- Require every person charged with a felony to provide a DNA sample for the State’s DNA database
Notice the word "charged" and not "convicted". No way that that would pass Constitutional muster. Why do Republicans hate the American principle of "innocent until proven guilty"?
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