Rant NC GOP just stole a supermajority??

[soulcougher73]

Well I guess that's the idea behind recall elections, although I categorically oppose recalls.

The whole purpose of term lengths is supposed to be that people are free to make unpopular decisions. I don't like this decision but it's absolutely hers to make.

Maybe the Dems should plant a bunch of "conservatives" into government positions. As soon as they are elected they switch to Dems. Dems ram everything and anything thru. Nothing to stop them?

 

[pcgeek11]

Yeah fucking right. The Republican party has shown to be such a bastion for freethinkers, and never bullies those who disagree with them.

Take it up with her. Those were her words.

I think she is correct however.

 

[nakedfrog]

Take it up with her. Those were her words.

I think she is correct however.

Oh, I'm sure you do.

 

[pcgeek11]

Oh, I'm sure you do.

It is like that in here many times.

Speak outside of the echo chamber and get hammered. LOL

 

[nakedfrog]

It is like that in here many times.

Speak outside of the echo chamber and get hammered. LOL

Yes, I'm also sure you see this as a far left echo chamber too, which is also not an accurate reflection of reality.

 

[Vic]

"Bullying" is just the latest Republican buzzword for their desire to silence any speech that dares disagree with them. Just a few years ago, they were claiming that dissenting speech somehow violated their right to free speech (which of course it doesn't). Now (with their own attacks on the 1a escalating) they calling it "bullying" when someone disagrees with them.

Someone needs to be checking her bank accounts, cause there's no doubt a payoff was made.

 

[Moonbeam]

Maybe someday voters will decide to seek within their community people engaged in efforts to better those communities and ask them to run and never vote for anybody seeking political office.

 

[Paratus]

I’ll say this. Both of the following can true.

The person is elected, not the party, and they can vote or caucus how they see fit.

Her “explanation” are vapid rightwing talking points straight from a Fox News comments section. Couple that with her sudden flip and previous documented liberal policy support and the whole thing stinks to high heaven.

It’s likely there’s a publicly unknown inciting incident that caused her sudden flip. That incident would almost likely NOT prevent her from caucusing or voting how she wants.

 

[Moonbeam]

"Bullying" is just the latest Republican buzzword for their desire to silence any speech that dares disagree with them. Just a few years ago, they were claiming that dissenting speech somehow violated their right to free speech (which of course it doesn't). Now (with their own attacks on the 1a escalating) they calling it "bullying" when someone disagrees with them.

Someone needs to be checking her bank accounts, cause there's no doubt a payoff was made.

Maybe blackmail or threats to loved ones that are credible?

 

[UNCjigga]

As expected, the legislature wasted no time ramming through abortion restrictions now that they can override the expected governor veto.

Rep. Tricia Cotham’s transformation into a right wing troll is complete—apparently she no longer believes the things she believed all of 2 months ago. “Abortion for me, and not for thee!”

 

[Zorba]

It is like that in here many times.

Speak outside of the echo chamber and get hammered. LOL

Go to a conservative forum and say you are pro-abortion and see how it goes.

 

[Zorba]

As expected, the legislature wasted no time ramming through abortion restrictions now that they can override the expected governor veto.

Rep. Tricia Cotham’s transformation into a right wing troll is complete—apparently she no longer believes the things she believed all of 2 months ago. “Abortion for me, and not for thee!”

Yeah, either she had recent trauma or was paid off.

 

[HomerJS]

This woman betrayed her voters. She said she would caucus as pro choice.

Press need to deep dive as to why the flip flop.

What do you think would happen if the people of the entire state decided to keep the tenets of Roe?

 

[Vic]

Regardless of partisanship or issues, it seems pretty silly for a member of Congress to unfairly attack the majority of their constituents as "radicals," etc.
Unless of course she's planning on that supermajority to make it so the legislature gets to decide on its membership on its own.

 

[sportage]

Makes it bad for the people who voted for her when she promised to push Democratic priorities. Those people should be pissed.

Get use to it.
This appears to be a big part of the new "how low can we go" republican strategy. This, and their many other bags of tricky Dick tricks.
But you know... there was a time when democrats held supermajorities in nearly all segments of government. A time when a majority of the judges were democrats. And when the US Supreme Court justices held a liberal majority of democrats, SO WHY did not democrats do back then exactly what republicans are doing now???

Democrats "could have" rigged the system in their favor, set the stage to maintain democrat rule for eternity. But they didn't, and they never do. Democrats never try pulling the dirty tricks that republicans pull with knee-jerk reaction, when and if given the chance. And now, in case we haven't noticed, republicans have gotten that chance. Do notice that republicans are not allowing anything stand in their way. Nothing. From national to local, from mayors to school boards, nothing is standing in their way.
Yeah, I'd just get use to it.
And I suspect we haven't seen anything yet.
Just wait till Biden wins in 0224, but doesn't. And democrats win state after state, but don't.

 

[ivwshane]

This woman betrayed her voters. She said she would caucus as pro choice.

Press need to deep dive as to why the flip flop.

What do you think would happen if the people of the entire state decided to keep the tenets of Roe?

Yeah, something is definitely fishy. Let’s assume a worse case scenario, either they were bought out or this was the plan all along, what’s the fix and how do you prevent this?

 

[Zorba]

Yeah, something is definitely fishy. Let’s assume a worse case scenario, either they were bought out this was the plan all along, what’s the fix and how do you prevent this?

If it was fixed from the beginning I think all you can do is end gerrymandering and go to rank choice voting and/or jungle primaries. Not that those would completely fix the problem, but it would make it less likely that someone wins with little really scrutiny. If she was bought out, then she should be charged with taking bribes.

Really proportional representation would be the best fix.

 

[HomerJS]

When people are against your policies rig the game.

Republican M.O.

 

[thilanliyan]

The more I read into this it doesn’t seem like a Trojan Horse—she and her mom were solid blue and known quantities. I’m genuinely concerned if there was someone making threats to her children—but if so she needs to get the authorities involved.

If anything it was GOP voters making threats against her to switch lol

 

[pcgeek11]

Go to a conservative forum and say you are pro-abortion and see how it goes.

I'm sure it would be the same....

 

[HomerJS]

It was what most of us expected. GOP plot to trick voters. As stated in the latest Trump indictment, lying isn't illegal.

Turns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All Along

The saga of North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) is a strange one: She was a vocally pro-choice Democrat who revealed in 2015 that she’d had a medically necessary abortion, then won her old seat in November 2022 only to defect to the Republican party in April and give the GOP a...

www.yahoo.com

 

[cytg111]

It was what most of us expected. GOP plot to trick voters. As stated in the latest Trump indictment, lying isn't illegal.

Turns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All Along

The saga of North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) is a strange one: She was a vocally pro-choice Democrat who revealed in 2015 that she’d had a medically necessary abortion, then won her old seat in November 2022 only to defect to the Republican party in April and give the GOP a...

www.yahoo.com

If it wasnt within the same borders it’d be treason.

 

[hal2kilo]

It was what most of us expected. GOP plot to trick voters. As stated in the latest Trump indictment, lying isn't illegal.

Turns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All Along

The saga of North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) is a strange one: She was a vocally pro-choice Democrat who revealed in 2015 that she’d had a medically necessary abortion, then won her old seat in November 2022 only to defect to the Republican party in April and give the GOP a...

www.yahoo.com

Duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pcgeek11]

If lying was illegal the prison system would be full of politicians of both parties.

 

[soulcougher73]

It was what most of us expected. GOP plot to trick voters. As stated in the latest Trump indictment, lying isn't illegal.

Turns Out Rep. Tricia Cotham, North Carolina Abortion Traitor, Was a GOP Plant All Along

The saga of North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham (R) is a strange one: She was a vocally pro-choice Democrat who revealed in 2015 that she’d had a medically necessary abortion, then won her old seat in November 2022 only to defect to the Republican party in April and give the GOP a...

www.yahoo.com

Everyone involved should be firing squaded.