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« Reply #100 on: September 20, 2022, 07:44:48 PM »

Feb. 11: Cooper addresses an antipoverty convention in Columbia, South Carolina's capitol. "While additional funding for antipoverty programs is absolutely necessary and vital - it's not enough. Just throwing money at the problem will not do very much to fix it, not unless the money is coupled with good, responsible, careful, knowledgable, experienced management. I pledge that in a Cooper Administration, the HUD department will not only receive more funding, but it will create new, effective antipoverty programs to help kids in Columbia and across this nation. Our children are the future, and the more children we have living in abject poverty, not being able to graduate high school, getting put into juvenile jail, being locked up behind bars and having their futures permanently wrecked, the worse it is, not only for them, but for this country, for each and every one of us." After the convention, Cooper visits a public elementary school in the heart of the city, where he meets second-graders and reads a book to them. While reading, doubtless to the great surprise of the students, Cooper suddenly looks up and says loudly, "I believe our children are our country's future, and we will only be as good as we allow these children to be, as much as we nurture their potential and allow them, help them, to grow. That's why I fought for public education in North Carolina, and that's why I'll do the same in Washington, DC." Of course, this is turned into an ad: an ad aired in the media markets of Memphis, Little Rock - Pine Bluff, Columbia, Houston, El Paso (Las Cruces), Minneapolis - St. Paul, San Diego, Tulsa, and Boston.
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« Reply #101 on: September 20, 2022, 07:52:38 PM »

Feb. 12: Cooper lambasts the GOP on all the anti-democracy actions they have taken over the last three to four years. "They are actively attacking, actively threatening our democracy. They're sending poll bullies - a practice of the nineteenth century that was done away with, at least, until now - and they're engaging in voter intimidation. They want to make it harder to vote and disincentivize or prevent Americans from exercising their right to vote. Republican candidates and politicians in various states - they've got candidates for governor, people like Doug Mastriano, who was at the Jan 6 insurrection and who vowed to ban abortion with zero exceptions in Pennsylvania, somebody who planned on subverting the will of Pennsylvania voters if they dared to vote for Democratic candidates, somebody who has expressed support for the Confederacy and the Confederate flag, and candidates for secretary of state, people like Mark Finchem, also a member of the Oath Keepers, someone who was not only at January 6, but somebody who has supported the violence in Charlotte seven years ago, and somebody who said they'd only accept the election results if they lost - well, I'm glad to say Finchem did lose, and by the way, yes, he's still refused to concede. These candidates represent what the GOP has become - a party of violent extremists and conspiracy theorists who have less regard for our nation's democracy than they do for Donald Trump. The stakes, and I cannot say this clearly enough, are far too great for any of us interested in preserving democracy to stay home - you all need to vote, even if you need to fight for your right to vote, if you want to keep your right to vote, if you want to save it from being taken away by dictatorial Republicans. The stakes are too high. We need to all vote Democratic, until the GOP denounces election denialism and anti-democracy efforts it's engaging in right now. This is a question of our democracy, and that issue must be first and foremost in voters' minds when they head to the voting booths."
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« Reply #102 on: September 20, 2022, 08:04:54 PM »

Feb. 13: Cooper attends a pro-choice protest at the State Capitol, where he is able to address the jeering-and-cheering crowd. "South Carolina, with its Republican governor and Republican legislature, banned abortion. They decided that largely-male lawmakers could control women's bodies, take away their right to their own reproductive choices. Well, I think we need to show those lawmakers what we think of that. They ought to realise the decisions they make controlling other people's choices, impact real people. These decisions force raped teenagers and little girls to give birth, they result in women dying in childbirth and orphaning newborn babies. These decisions have had horrific consequences for poor girls and women across this state's 46 counties, who cannot afford to go out of state to North Carolina - where I've fought the legislature tooth and nail to keep abortion legal - or some other state that allows abortion. Some lone Republican voices of courage in the state legislature, like that of State Representative Neal Collins of Easley, who saw what terrible consequences the anti-abortion laws he supported had on women in his district - have been shouted down and ignored. And this state is also home to Senator Lindsey Graham, a bachelor who has no children, no wife, but still had the audacity to propose a nationwide abortion ban - deciding that he (again, somebody with no wife or ex-wife or children) was the ultimate authority on when women could make decisions about their own bodies. What South Carolinians, what women who wish to defend their own reproductive freedom, and what men who support women's right to abortions, should do, is to protest, to have their voices heard - but to express themselves in the most powerful way imaginable, in the exact way the Republicans don't want them to: by voting against this anti-choice, this ultra-authoritarian party, by voting for the party that will reinstate Roe and protect abortion. This is a fight the religious right, so interested in controlling women's bodies, has won temporarily, but a fight that we can still win back if we fight hard enough, and if we're persistent and united in our effort." Cooper also throws a bone to the anti-January-6-people and the pro-BLMers in the crowd, saying, "This is a peaceful protest - much unlike the attempted insurrection that occurred on January 6 of 2021. This is much more akin to the overwhelmingly peaceful protests for Black Lives Matter that racist Republicans misrepresented as violent looting, when most of the protesting was peaceful." The crowd cheers, and then returns to protesting.
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« Reply #103 on: September 20, 2022, 09:29:52 PM »
« Edited: September 20, 2022, 09:39:01 PM by CentristRepublican »

Feb. 14: Cooper spends Valentine's Day with his wife in Raleigh.
Feb. 15: Immediately afterwards, Cooper heads to next-door Tennessee. He begins with a town hall in Nashville, where he discusses gerrymandering, gun control, abortion rights, and LGBT rights. On gerrymandering: "The GOP - and a great example is the maps they drew right here in Tennessee - wants to allow the politicians to choose the voters, rather than the opposite, which is how it should be. For long, Democrats have proposed measure after measure to take redistricting from the hands of self-serving state legislators and have a nonpartisan commission draw the districts - fair districts, so the winner is the American voter rather than the Republicans or the Democrats - but each time, the GOP has shut it down. In other words, Democrats have proposed mutual disarmament time and time again, and the GOP has rejected it. Democrats have themselves in multiple states opted to do the right thing and given control to an independent, nonpartisan commission, while the GOP, almost everywhere where they have control, gerrymander away. In North Carolina, my state - the GOP made sure that the governor didn't have any say in redistricting. They made sure only the general assembly, controlled by Republicans since they gerrymandered their way to a permanent majority, would control redistricting, so that I could not veto any of their unfair and unreasonable GOP gerrymanders. In 2010, they drew an ugly 10 to 3 gerrymander. Courts stepped in and ordered the GOP to draw fair maps, not self-serving maps that packed-in Democratic voters in Charlotte, Raleigh and the majority-black northeast. The GOP General Assembly took the opportunity to once again draw gerrymandered districts. And in 2020, again, they tried to pass a new gerrymander, this time with 14 districts - since our state saw enough growth to gain a district - but the courts finally stepped in and drew fine maps, which I'm very proud of and which I think North Carolinians, regardless of their political affiliation, should be pleased with, as these maps are exemplary of fair maps. But we need more action like this, in more states. We need to stop outrageous GOP gerrymanders like the ones in Texas, and Florida, and Georgia, and Ohio, and right here in Tennessee, where Jim Cooper - a fellow Cooper! - a tremendous man who has served the people of Tennessee for decades saw his district in Nashville get sliced and diced till it was a solid Republican district. Nashville was split up so that the voters of Nashville and Davidson County could not get the representation they deserve. It is outrageous, and it has to stop. Democrats proposed a fair map that would also, in East Tennessee, draw compact, clear districts, but the GOP opted for incoherent districts in the area splitting up the Knoxville and Chattanooga areas to protect their own interests." On guns, he says, "The question is not to take guns from law-abiding citizens. I'm not saying anything in support of that. However, criminals, people with histories of domestic abuse, people with criminal records, people with mental health issues, people on terrorist watch lists, should not be allowed to buy guns! And nobody should be allowed to waltz in to a gun store and buy an AR-15 and buy as many rounds as they like, over the counter, without any background checks. This is all common sense." On abortion and LGBT rights, Cooper hits the same notes as usual. Cooper also addresses a rally in Memphis where he discusses infrastructure and healthcare: "People in Memphis are hurting. Memphis needs better roads and we need to make sure the people of Memphis have some form of health insurance. The politicians that control Tennessee have made clear they have no intention of doing any of this, opting instead for abortion bans and gerrymandered maps, but we can take action on a national level, so working-class Americans from Memphis to Minneapolis, have some form of health insurance. Obamacare, to that end, was just the beginning - and we all remember how Republicans tried to repeal even that baby step!...As far as infrastructure goes, what President Biden has done is commendable. But really, we need more." Cooper touches upon rural broadband when he then heads north to a stop in rural Lauderdale County, his final stop before leaving the state for now: "Republicans take credit for rural broadband - when, almost always, they voted against President Biden's proposals to expand rural broadband. Make no mistake: infrastructure and rural broadband to help people in places like Lauderdale County is something that Democrats support, and Republicans oppose."
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« Reply #104 on: September 20, 2022, 09:38:49 PM »

Feb. 16: Cooper goes to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, addressing a largely black audience about police brutality and the need for action. He touts his own record and lambasts Republicans "who frame the tiny minority of BLM protests where there are pockets of violence, as representative of all BLM protests. Why do they do this? Because they do not want to have real discussions, real progress, on this issue. But we must move past their lies, and finally embrace Dr Martin Luther King's dream of equality across all races. We must. We must stop more instances of police brutality like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. It must stop. Black people and Latinos must stop being racially profiled, and police brutality and institutional racism - it all must, finally, come to a stop. I'm against radical proposals like police abolition; however, we absolutely must achieve reform, on a national level, so African-Americans do not fear being choked to death by police officers for no crime besides the colour of their skin." The crowd cheers, and Cooper then heads to eastern Arkansas, the majority-African-American Mississippi Delta, where he visits multiple counties and interacts with voters before heading down to Texas in the evening.
Feb. 17: Cooper heads to Uvalde, Texas, to discuss gun control: "No Democrat is talking about taking away everybody's guns, much as the NRA would like for you to believe that. And when we discuss common-sense gun control measures, it's not politicising tragedies like the one right here Uvalde nearly two years ago - it's learning from them, to ensure they're not repeated, rather than offering empty, meaningless thoughts and prayers but demurring when it comes to real action and real progress and steps to prevent similar tragedies from occurring in the future. Texas Republicans, after yet another mass shooting in this state, all promised they'd support sensible, common-sense measures to prevent more mass shootings - Dan Patrick did, he said he'd fight the NRA to get it done, and so did Greg Abbott. They didn't do anything. It was all a lie. They were too scared of the NRA to do anything to save childrens' lives. If they'd done something, the mass school shooting here in Uvalde could've been prevented and those 19 children and 3 teachers would be alive. Texans who have lost a friend, a loved one, Texans who've been dangerously close to gun violence, and escaped by a hair - you all know how imperative it is that we do something, and don't sit idly by and let more of these tragedies occur. We need to do something, and what we've done so far, while steps in the right direction, don't go nearly far enough. Universal background checks and universal red flag laws - those are two key policies that we as a country need to save our kids' lives and prevent tragedies like Parkland and Uvalde from ever again occurring." From Uvalde, Cooper heads to El Paso, where he strikes similar notes at a town hall and rally. Along the way, Cooper stops in rural, Hispanic-heavy West Texas counties, where he discusses immigration reform, poverty, and energy issues, talking to people who claim to be Clinton-Trump voters at town halls in multiple counties, and persuading the clear majority to vote Democratic in 2024.
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« Reply #105 on: October 01, 2022, 12:33:51 PM »
« Edited: October 01, 2022, 12:37:45 PM by CentristRepublican »

Trump Family Subpoenaed: Don Jr, Eric, Ivanka and Lara to Appear Before Grand Jury[/b]

Just as Donald Trump's campaign seemed to be gaining steam, it has been rocked again. Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump and Lara Trump have all been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury for actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Though the scope is limited due to Republican control of Congress, Attorne-General Merrick Garland is seemingly wielding his powers has the country's chief law enforcer freely when it comes to the Trump family.

THis is likely to cause consternation for many within the Trump campaign, who may see this as a prime example of the former President's vulnerability in a general election this year. The McMahon campaign by contrast, must be overjoyed, having likely been counting on a break like this to cover the polling gap between the two Republican candidates.

Democrats meanwhile are making hay with the issue. Several Democrats have again been saying that this will likely precede a criminal prosecution for at least someone in the Trump family, a reality that many legal experts say is getting closer and closer each day. It is currently unknown how this will affect the campaign in the long run.

COOPER'S STATEMENT: "I'm very interested to see what this subpoena reveals. Donald Trump attempted to seize voting machines, to stop the counting of ballots, to demolish our country's democracy - all to install himself as the unelected leader, the dictator, of this nation. Fortunately, he failed, but it is still vital we find the truth behind all of this. Hopefully, Donald Trump and his children, coming from 'the party of law and order,' will comply with the rule of law, the authority of the Department of Justice, and the order of this subpoena."

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« Reply #106 on: October 01, 2022, 12:56:04 PM »

Mentlah Health Crisis in Schools

Mental health for teenagers has come into focus recently following the suicide of a 16 year old girl in Durham, North Carolina due to depression. Mental health in schools in particular has been focused on, especially alarming rates of depression and anxiety emerging nt just from vulnerable groups, such as the LGBTQ+ and African-American communities, but increasingly in rural areas as well.

"There's just not enough of the right resources," one source was quoted as saying, "More money alone won't resolve the issue. THese are out kids dying here, and there's nothing we can do about that?"

President Biden has paid a visit to the girl's family, and has opened up about his own mental health struggles in the aftermath of the deaths of his first wife and daghter in a car crash in 1972, just after he was elected to the United States Senate for the first time. "Mental health is just as important as physical health. This is a startling and unwelcome reminder of that key precept."[/center]

COOPER'S STATEMENT: "This tragedy has moved me. As a father of three (adult) daughters, I cannot begin to imagine the unspeakable grief Andrea's parents are feeling right now. As North Carolina's governor, I feel that, in part, our state should do more to address mental health, to prevent more incidents like this one. Tragic as this incident was, words will not suffice in addressing the mental health crisis among teenagers. I believe we must all, the state must, be actively involved in having open, honest discussions about this issue, in providing crucial resources, in raising awareness on this issue. Only then can we prevent more children from making this drastic decision - that forever impacts their loved ones. During the COVID19 pandemic, this issue had and remains a more important issue. Social isolation, bullying, low-self esteem: all of these things drive teenagers to suicide. If we as a state can stamp out the stigma of discussing mental health issues, if we can have more frank and open conversations with teenagers on mental health, if we can provide them with and remind them of the resources that are available to them - then, that will help to save lives, and if it stops even one person from committing suicide, it is worth it." Cooper further discusses his own leadership as governor in the allocation of $5 million to address mental health in higher education (i.e. colleges/universities), in February 2022, but says, "it is still not enough to just provide the money and leave it at that - we need leaders who are passionate about this issue, who are themselves willing to make it a priority." Cooper also lambasts the fact that, in September 2022, all but one Republican voted against legislation for school-based mental health services: "You know, this is an issue I'd truly, genuinely rather not have politicised, because the mental health of children should be a national issue that transcends ideology, an issue where we can all unite and come together to look for solutions and to have necessary discussions. However, that does not mean I will stay silent about the truth, and the truth is that those on the other side of the aisle have demonstrated that this is not a major issue for them, that they'd rather not allocate resources and funding to address this issue. That is genuinely despicable, and while it may appear distasteful of me to say, it's the fact of the matter, and I'm not going to mince words. Because a year and a half ago - and I feel it's crucial we remind voters of this, so those who voted against this do not get away with it - there was a vote to provide school-based mental health services. It should not have been a partisan issue by any means. It should have passed overwhelmingly. Yet, it was a partisan issue that somehow, inexplicably, saw a party-line vote at the end of it: yes, all 219 Democrats voted in favour, while all but one Republican voted against. I don't know how those Republicans who voted against this can say they take this issue seriously, or want to look for ways to address this. Because when the chips are down and real progress on this issue is finally up for a vote - well, it's a party line vote, and virtually all Republicans were opposed." Cooper also carves time out of his campaign schedule to go to Durham and, in his capacity of North Carolina's leader, meet with Andrea's grieving parents (will be recorded in his campaign schedule as well).
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