North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor

[Nyvin]

The North Carolina GOP is really starting to resemble a third world dictatorship political party.  

Crush all opposition through any means necessary.  

What's even more horrible is that the map that the state legislature was elected on has been declared by the courts as an illegal gerrymander (the one that gave the GOP their supermajority...), and legislative elections need to be held on a new map in 2017. 

In other words - The Republican Party legislators in NC, which are illegally elected, are taking away power from the new Democratic Governor, who was fairly elected!!

[Nyvin]

This isn't uncommon. Democrats are doing this in Illinois as well. Madigan's goal has always been to make sure that Rauner is a one-termer.

No! Nothing the IL Dems did to Rauner even remotely compares to something this massive and last minute.   

What legislative changes did the IL Dems put through that were comparable to this?  In the scope of taking away entire sections of the governor's power?

The NC GOP is so fanatically partisan it's downright comical, if not scary.

[Nyvin]

While obviously Illinois dems didn't call a special session like this one, in their regular sessions, they haven't been able to do stuff quite like this to Rauner because they had the dilemma of having an exact supermajority in the Illinois house - so if even one democrat didn't show up or didn't vote the right way, their bill was dead. And now they don't have a super-majority at all, so they're out of luck.

There is/was no proposed legislation on the level of what the NC GOP is doing in Illinois.   It's a complete fabrication to compare the two.

Furthermore it's even more morally repugnant to pass laws like this when the GOP's map has been declared illegal and they need to hold special elections in 2017.

[Nyvin]

So this will probably be remembered as the Republican Party's first step towards trying to impose Tyranny.

[Nyvin]

It's official

https://twitter.com/CraigJ_NandO/status/810979672884383745

[Nyvin]

what this really is is a lesson to never elect a Republican, no matter how moderate they may seem.

And what it shows is that politicians are judged on a two tiered system.   If a Democratic caucus tried to pull something like this the Republicans would go absolutely bananas over it.

[Nyvin]

Wow, freedom move! Better not trust Democrats with something like actual power.

If you support this then what is even the point of supporting democracy?