{"id":18670,"date":"2016-12-17T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18670"},"modified":"2016-12-17T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T04:10:00","slug":"north-carolinians-take-political-defeat-quite-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18670","title":{"rendered":"North Carolinians take political defeat quite seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are sore losers.<\/p>\n

And then there is North Carolina, where Republicans apparently are so upset at losing the governor’s office to a Democrat that they’re punishing the winner — by stripping him of much of his gubernatorial power.<\/p>\n

Get a load of this: Gov.-elect Roy Cooper is taking office without much of the appointment power that the man he defeated, Gov. Pat McCrory had.<\/p>\n

Moreover, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Legislature — meeting in special session — enacted a law that reduces drastically the number of appointments the governor can make. McCrory, also a Republican, signed the bill into law this week. Another bill requires the governor to gain Senate approval of appointments made to the University of North Carolina System.<\/p>\n

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McCrory only recently conceded defeat to Cooper. It was an intensely fought campaign. Cooper won by a whisker. McCrory conceded and did not seek a recount of the ballots cast in the contest. I was proud of McCrory for conceding the contest.<\/p>\n

Then he signs these ridiculous, petulant pieces of crap into law.<\/p>\n

The reaction to these bills, quite naturally, have broken along partisan lines. Democrats are incensed. Republicans are not. But then a neutral group weighed in. According to the Washington Post: “Nonpartisan watchdogs, like Bob Hall with Democracy North Carolina, said the changes go ‘far beyond the normal partisan wrangling and change of power.'”<\/p>\n

So much for a collegial transition in North Carolina.<\/p>\n\n

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