{"id":10736,"date":"2013-07-31T02:26:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2013-07-31T02:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T09:26:55","slug":"life-in-mccrorystan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/life-in-mccrorystan\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in McCrorystan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, North Carolina used to be a lovely southern state, but that was before the state was replaced by the Totalitarian Fascist Plutocracy of McCrorystan, lead by TEAfuhrer Pat McCrory (R-InsaniTEA).  He and his Republican cronies have transformed their Reich into a haven for election theft.<\/font><\/p>\n

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…the Republican supermajority in both the N.C. House and N.C. Senate voted in the most sweeping erasure of voters’ rights in the past century<\/strong>. Despite fervent, fact-laden, data-driven, and passionate debates from Democratic lawmakers, both houses of the N.C. General Assembly passed HB589: The House vote was 73-41, along party lines, and the Senate vote was 33-14, also along party lines.<\/font><\/p>\n

The House version of HB 589 started out earlier this year as a two-page voter-ID bill. After the May crossover to the N.C. Senate, the bill came back as a 57-page piece of legislation that would:<\/font><\/p>\n