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Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors (www.propublica.org)

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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.

Ignoring protesters who labeled the bill a “legislative coup,” Republicans in the General Assembly easily outvoted Democrats, then overrode the outgoing Democratic governor’s veto.

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t know what everyone was expecting. They did this with the lt. governor years ago. It shouldn’t be a shock they’d do it to the governor. Especially since North Carolinians tend to elect Republican senators and Democratic governors.