Dallas Woodhouse was in a hurry to get ballots printed after a court ruled in favor of Republican Legislators today:
The case involved Governor Cooper’s challenge to the new, improved ballot language describing constitutional amendments that take away his power. It’s opening weekend in college football, and Lee Corso has a response for Dallas:
The Supreme Court of North Carolina wants a bite of this apple and certified review mere hours after the case was decided.
I’ve been orbiting the fringes of political campaigns since I was a little guy. Call me Pluto: not big enough to be called a planet, but still in the solar system. From the outskirts, I can report that the political universe looks a bit shaky at the moment.
At the state level, this election should be a referendum on the Republican legislature and its stranglehold of the power of state government. We have multiple constitutional amendments on the ballot. The Governors of North Carolina have even waded into the battle. Legislative leaders attacked the former governors in response to their response.
E-Branch vs. L-Branch with J-Branch on the line:
DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!
This is not normal.
Here’s the vote tally from the N.C. Senate today, overriding Cooper’s veto of the bill to rig the Supreme Court election.
Meredith voted against the bill last week, but as I predicted, Meredith didn’t show up for the veto vote. Some vacations are just too important to your re-election chances to pass up.
Last week, I wrote about controversial Senate Bill 3 that was passed in the recent special session. The bill makes it easier for a Republican to win the upcoming race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court by preventing another candidate from running as a Republican and splitting the Republican vote. For more detail and the text of the bill, use this link.
News outlets caught on to something during the vote. A few Republican legislators in competitive districts broke with their party and voted against the bill. Wesley Meredith was one of them.
Meredith is the definition of a party-line voter. As the “Majority Whip” in the Senate, his job is to keep others on that same line. He was one of only five senators to score a 100% rating from Civitas for his “conservative effectiveness” in 2017. So what gives???
There’s only one thing that can explain Meredith’s novel attempt at moderation: he’s worried. His district has been “un-gerrymandered” by the federal courts, and now he must appeal to swing voters if he wants to beat Kirk deViere in the fall.
Senate Bill 3 has been vetoed by Governor Cooper. There will be a vote in Raleigh on Saturday, August 4 to override Cooper and make the bill law.
Do you think Meredith will side with Cooper or have another change of heart? I have a feeling he might stay on vacation this Saturday.
Cross Creek Divide 