Inside the North Carolina GOP's Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State's Democratic Governors

[marmar]

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors

by Doug Bock Clark
December 22, 2025, 5:30 am


(ProPublica) In November 2024, Democrat Josh Stein scored an emphatic victory in the race to become North Carolina’s governor, drubbing his Republican opponent by almost 15 percentage points.

His honeymoon didn’t last long, however.

Two weeks after his win, the North Carolina legislature’s Republican supermajority fast-tracked a bill that would transform the balance of power in the state.

Its authors portrayed the 131-page proposal, released publicly only an hour before debate began, as a disaster relief measure for victims of Hurricane Helene. But much of it stripped powers from the state’s governor, taking away authority over everything from the highway patrol to the utilities commission. Most importantly, the bill eliminated the governor’s control over appointments to the state elections board, which sets voting rules and settles disputes in the swing state’s often close elections.

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The maneuver culminated a nearly decade-long effort by Republican legislators, who have pushed through law after law shrinking the powers of North Carolina’s chief executive — always a Democrat during that time frame — as well as the portfolios of other executive branch officials who are Democrats. ..................(more)

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-governor-power-transfers-gop

[mtngirl47]

1. Cheating

Lying, stealing. When the Democrats take power back in North Carolina we need to make the laws part of the state constitution and send the rethugs away for generations.

[GiqueCee]

2. And people wonder...

... why I won't let a Republican in my house. It costs too much to fumigate it afterward.
Mind you, I'm old enough to remember when one could have Republican friends and just agree to disagree on certain policy positions, but those days are dead and gone, probably forever.
If they ever get around to updating the DSM 5 (the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, vol.5), they should give conservatism its rightful place at the dark end of the Sociopathy Spectrum.

[kimbutgar]

3. All the repukes I have known had F'd up childhoods and complain all the time about how awful things

Are when in reality at the time it wasn’t l I lost two good friends who complained about their childhoods. And my brother in law had an awful father and my sister in law was married to a maga who was an cruel sob father and his kids are all messed up. You are right about the DSM 5 disorder.