Carolina Journal’s Editor-in-Chief Donna King hosts a recap of the week’s legislative news with journalists and state policy experts. This week, they discuss the SBI Director and Gov. Roy Cooper face off , legislators override Gov. Roy Cooper’s gun bill veto, the latest poll results that matchup DeSantis and Biden.
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review: End of session: The General Assembly closed out the week with several failed attempts to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes. With six vetoes on the calendar, five...
Republican lawmakers are forcing their Democratic colleagues to choose between sustaining Gov. Roy Cooper’s budget veto or securing higher teacher pay raises. On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Republicans introduced a mini-budget in the House Education Appropriations Committee covering teacher pay raises. A conference report to Senate Bill 354 served as the vehicle for the pay raises....
They saw a helicopter hover for a moment above the hospital, and head east. They weren’t sure, but they thought their son was inside. Jean and Dale Andersen didn’t know how bad it was. An hour before, Dale had been calling his 19-year-old son up from the basement, wanting to believe his son was there,...
Rep. Darren Jackson, D-Wake, wants Republican leaders to take a polygraph. He says he’ll pay for it. Jackson, in a news conference Monday, Sept. 23, says a lie-detector test would prove the veracity of Republican claims about a controversial House vote overriding the governor’s budget veto. Or not. “There is no path forward for reconciliation...
The fate of the budget veto override lies in the Senate, but don’t expect a vote any time soon. For now, redistricting is the Senate’s primary focus. Bill D’Elia, spokesman for Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said the Senate is laser-focused on finishing the process of redrawing the legislative maps as required by a three-judge...
The budget passed the N.C. House in a controversial veto override, but the debate over Medicaid expansion is far from over. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, promised a vote on Medicaid expansion after a veto override passed. He said members will debate the Republican version of the plan, House Bill 655, this week. The Senate,...
Rep. Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, denied claims from Democrats and some media outlets that he helped carry out a plan to mislead House Democrats into not showing up to an early morning session so House Republicans could more easily pass a veto override of the budget. Saine called the claims ridiculous. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the...
Republicans are getting impatient. Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper insists Medicaid expansion be included in the General Fund budget, and the Republican-dominated General Assembly unequivocally refuses. Lawmakers passed a budget bill and sent to it the governor, who vetoed it June 28. Republicans plan to pass a budget anyway. One piece at a time. The hope...
Becki Gray, John Locke Foundation senior vice president, discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s decision to veto the 2017-19 N.C. state budget. Gray offered these comments during the July 8, 2017, edition of WRAL’s “On The Record.”
Updated, 2:19 p.m. Another day, another veto override vote went against Gov. Roy Cooper. On Thursday, after minimal debate the state Senate voted 32-15 to override Cooper’s veto of House Bill 100, a measure restoring partisan designations on the ballot for Superior and District court elections. With Wednesday’s 74-44 override from the House, the measure becomes law....
