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VOTING DATES TO REMEMBERApril 19th. - May 5th. One stop early vote begins. Early voting begins at 9:00 am. You can early vote at the Board of Elections Annex site right next door to the Gaston County Board of Elections on Franklin Blvd. in Gastonia. Take advantage of early vote and tell your Democratic friends, family and neighbors to vote early! May 8th. Primary Election Day. Polls are open from 6:30 am.-7:30 pm. There are many races on the state level including Governor as well as amendment 1. For...Read More...
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COMMISSIONERS INTO THE TALL WEEDS, WATCH TOO MUCH Dr. WHOYour all-republican commissioners are standing fast against a subversive, insidious, sinister plot for global domination you never heard about – a twenty year old UN resolution endorsed back in the day by Republican Pres. George H.W. Bush (senior-the smart one) that promotes parks, good transportation, and limiting urban sprawl. Who knew, right?Read More...
Donnie Loftis says “I know there will be folks who say, ‘You guys are drinking the Kool-Aid.’” Well, yes, commissioner, that... -
MIDNIGHT VOTE, REPUBLICAN DOMINATIONThe yo-yo, down again, up again, House republicans ran down to Raleigh again last month and literally just after the stroke of midnight pulled a parliamentary maneuver to prohibit teachers from using direct deposit to the state's teachers association. Every other North Carolinian can arrange for a payroll deduction that pays various bills, so why are republicans so afraid of kindergarten teachers making itty bitty payments to their teachers' association? Because republicans don't like the...Read More...
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LAUNCHING THE WAR AGAINST KINDERGARTEN TEACHERSLaunching the war against kindergarten teachers. Speaker Tillis said earlier this year that Republicans were pushing this bill to attack the North Carolina Association of Educators because "[we] just want to give them a little taste about what’s to come." Tillis even had the gall to ask members to pray for Rep. Womble - who was in intensive care in Winston-Salem...Read More...
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NC - #3 IN POULTRY PRODUCTION......# 49 in per pupil spending. The mean-spirited dues check-off vote shows the lengths that republicans will go to damage the state’s public education system, even by singling out and punishing our teachers who dedicate themselves to teaching our children. Why? Because the teachers spoke out against the half billion dollars in K-12 education cuts that will directly affect the education we give our children.Read More...
The republican education cuts took out 1,700 teachers and 2,400 teachers’... -
WATCH FOR MORE STEALTH LEGISLATING IN OUR STATEA number of other bills remain in the House republican’s so-called “veto garage.” Their so-called “leaders” have publicly announced their intention to do whatever they have to do in order to override the vetoes. None of these bills deal with our state’s economy, creating jobs, or enriching NC communities. They are about disenfranchising North Carolinians or generating profits for wealthy campaign donors at the expense of North Carolina’s people.Read More...
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PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAINThis January was the 73rd anniversary of the film version of the wizard of oz. Today if Dorothy encountered men with no heart, no brain and no courage, she wouldn't be in Oz, but in the state legislature.Read More...
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SOCIAL IMMOBILITYTwo out of three poor kids grow up to be poor, while two out of three rich kids in America grow up to be rich. Social mobility occurs only among the middle - some go up, and others go down, but few are moving into the middle.Read More...
What pushes a person out of the middle? Hospital bills that wipe out meager savings, home debts that exceed the value of the house, jobs lost to machines or hungrier workers overseas. And no access to a 21st century education.
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LACK OF FEDERAL DEBT DEAL COULD HIT NC SOONCongress' failure to confront the national deficit would go straight to North Carolina schools, stores and doctors offices. Automatic spending cuts - triggered by the lack of agreement in Congress over ways to reduce the more than $1.2 trillion deficit - will begin in a year, if the do nothings in Congress don’t face up to the fact that taxes have to be raised...Read More...
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HEALTH CARE REFORM STILL UNDERWAYThis fall look for easy to read and understand descriptions of benefits that make it easy to compare insurance plans. Soon you will get a description of insurance benefits in plain English terms and that give examples how a plan will cover common conditions like a pregnancy or diabetes. All thanks to the Health Care Reform Act that republicans still want to abolish.Read More...
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