Link-of-the-Day – Page 8 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: Cash &Carry Democracy

Here’s an excerpt from a New York Times story that includes frank talk from the money suppliers (“we are hopeful that investment produces a return”) and from the money raisers, i.e., Members of Congress. The National Journal also writes about the corrupting money chase, with this quote from former NC Congressman Brad Miller: "The only [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 15th, 2013|Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Local BOE Goes Bonkers

A few weeks ago, the State Board of Elections made the appointments for all 100 county boards of elections – two Republicans and one Democrat per county, from lists provided by the state political parties. The party of the governor gets the majority of seats on each local board, as well as the State Board [...]

By Bob Hall| 2013-08-13T23:26:51-04:00 August 13th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Lawsuits Challenge Monster

Gov. Pat McCrory today signed the monster, 60-part elections bill into law that will dramatically change North Carolina’s election process, beginning in 2014 and 2016 when its most sweeping provisions come into effect. Our handy factsheet shows how the law restricts and redefines who can vote, where, when and how and, at the same time, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 12th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Disclosure, Get Out the Vote, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Voting Rights|2 Comments

LOD: “Vision” Trumps Science

A lengthy analysis by WRAL News shows that 167 NC environmental regulators will soon be subject to firing for any or no reason, at the discretion of Gov. Pat McCrory. That's seven times the number of exempt or political positions in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources during Gov. Bev Perdue’s administration. Gov. McCrory, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 9th, 2013|Environmental Issues, Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Ballotproof

Leave it to the folks at The Daily Show to put on full display the absurdity of the many controversial bills passed by the NC General Assembly during the 2013 legislative session. On last Monday’s show, guest host John Oliver dedicated four minutes of the show’s opening to talk about two of the most controversial [...]

By admin| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 8th, 2013|Democracy Summer 2013, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Revolving Pollution

What do the Koch brothers and Halliburton have in common? Well, a lot of things, but most recently both are dolling out mega bucks to the lobbying firm Shockey Scofield Solutions (S3) to fight environmental regulations. The Kochs hired S3’s Mike Ference, a former aide to both Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Sen. Jim Inhofe [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 6th, 2013|Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Inside the Monster Bill

Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to sign the monster anti-voting bill any day now. H-589 began in the state House as a photo ID bill but in the final days of the session, the state Senate rolled out a harsher version of the ID requirement, plus 40+ new provisions, including dozens that had never been discussed [...]

By Bob Hall| 2013-08-05T13:05:44-04:00 August 5th, 2013|Citizens United Case, Civic Engagement, Disclosure, Ethics, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Redistricting, Voter-Owned Elections, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Monster Bill

The Senate took a preliminary vote late Wednesday to pass the monster bill that aims to limit voting and expand ways for big money to influence North Carolina elections. This WRAL story gives a rundown of the provisions in the bill (H-589) and the action on the Senate floor. The Senate will take up the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2013-07-24T22:20:33-04:00 July 24th, 2013|Citizens United Case, Civic Engagement, Disclosure, Get Out the Vote, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Local Impact of Suppression

A host of data collected by Democracy North Carolina shows how legislation to change election rules would significantly affect the voters in each county. For example, the bill to require that voters show a government photo ID could impact nearly 5% of North Carolina voters, according to the Board’s analysis conducted this spring. Statewide, 318,000 registered voters [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 July 22nd, 2013|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Sweetheart Deal

In a remarkable sweetheart deal anchored with $1 million in campaign contributions, Gov. Pat McCrory’s administration yesterday agreed to settle a lawsuit against Duke Energy’s pollution of drinking water supplies in western North Carolina. Millions of tons of ash residue from Duke’s power plants have leaked contaminants into Mountain Island Lake near Charlotte and the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 July 16th, 2013|Environmental Issues, Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|1 Comment