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North Carolina

Ford_Prefect

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3. Unfortunately they do not care. They believe they are invincible due to money and gerrymandering.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Mar 25, 2017, 08:29 AM

Mar 2017

Any threat by "outsiders" only reinforces that sense that they are right. The majority of the NC GOP legislators were recruited as zealots to the cause and were carefully vetted by Art Pope. During the last 20 years he shaped the state party by excluding those who were not to his disturbed tastes.

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Unfortunately they do not care. They believe they are invincible due to money and gerrymandering. Ford_Prefect Mar 2017 #3