From my Blue Dawg Blog:
If you’ve not been following the unfolding rift in North Carolina, it’s worth watching; that state could be the next “Wisconsin,” with a newly-elected Republican governor and state legislature gutting budget items aimed to help the poor, while offering tax breaks for the wealthy and businesses. Sound familiar?
As a result, hundreds and thousands of citizens are rallying each Monday – they call ‘em “Moral Mondays” – at the Raleigh General Assembly building. Republicans have claimed that “outside agitators” are behind the rallies, but a recent check of arrest records from the last Moral Monday show that, indeed, most of those arrested (and why are people being arrested at peaceful demonstrations, again?) are from North Carolina.
Rev. John Cleghorn, a 29-year resident of Charlotte, N.C., and minister at Caldwell Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, penned a letter aimed at North Carolina’s Republican governor, Pat McCrory, that appears in today’s Charlotte Observer (as well as their website). In this letter, Cleghorn reminisces, from an era when McCrory was mayor of Charlotte, and a far-less partisan politician, and openly wonders where that politician went when ‘Mayor Pat’ became governor. Take a read…
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