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This will be the biggest Moral Monday yet, and is our unique opportunity to put our collective foot down against the corrupt, malfeasant Republican takeover of our state. There will be an especially strong Orange County contingent, including elected officials.
Please join us!
MORAL MONDAY MASS RALLY:
Education, Economic Justice and Voting Rights:
Pillars of Democracy!Bicentennial Mall - Across from NC General Assembly
16 W. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC
Monday June 3, 2013 5:00 pm
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RISK ARREST TO ATTEND THE MORAL MONDAY MASS RALLY! The vast majority of people will be there only to attend the rally and serve as supporters. You can even go inside the NC General Assembly, but must leave when asked if you do not want to risk arrest.
For those who make the personal decision to petition the legislature through nonviolent civil disobedience, based on your own moral conscience, it is CRITICAL that you attend a briefing and information session beforehand:
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Information Session
Martin Street Baptist Church
1001 E. Martin Street, Raleigh, NC
Monday, June 3, 3:00 pm
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/334641253331262/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/128838747317762/
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Party politics
While this latest chapter of corruption and self-interest has been largely driven by Republicans, let us not give Democrats any more credit than they deserve. The one vote that epitomizes to me the fix we are in (and the fix that is in), is the recent 112-4 State House of Representatives vote to affirm Chris Ayers, McCrory's choice to head the Public Staff. The Public Staff is charged with representing the citizenry in rate cases and other utility issues. Ayers has been a utility attorney all his working life. Needless to say, there were a lot of Democrats among those 112 who voted to let the fox guard the henhouse and missed a golden opportunity to stand up against the garden-variety, relentless corruption and cronyism that passes for state governance. In so voting, they revealed a failure of civic intelligence at best and are complicit in the corruption at worst. This is the type of vote that starkly reveals whether a leader has the integrity and intelligence to merit our support.The four who stood strong were Paul Luebke & Mickey Michaux of Durham, Pricey Harrison from Greensboro, and Verla Insko of Chapel Hill. Extremely disappointing was our new, supposedly progressive Rep. Valerie Foushee who voted for the interests of Duke and Progress Energy and against the citizens of North Carolina.Furthermore, the former head of the Public Staff, Democrat Robert Gruber, was in many ways the utilities' dream servant. Like the Washington Generals playing the Harlem Globetrotters, he always provided the simulation of a game and always lost. Then consider the machinations that Dem. Gov. Easley went through a few years back to make former CP&L attorney Finley the Chair of the Utilities Commission and it becomes pretty hard to make a convincing argument that the Democrats are the shining knights fighting for the people.
Waking NC up
No-one said anything about supporting Democrats, although it's true that we don't currently have much alternative after throwing the bums out.This isn't the NCDP's movement. In fact, far from it. as Thomas Mills said: