North Carolina
North Carolina Open Thread: Berger’s “Fiction”, Matching signature win, Chemours update, Ted Budd
Phil Berger can’t have it each methods
OPINION: BLUE NC / WRAL, 7/17/2022
Phil Berger can’t have it each methods – as he appears to attempt to do throughout his meandering reply to reporter Travis Fain’s query in regards to the Jan. 6 committee hearings. In a single breath, Berger says:
“I usually steer away from fictional readings … What’s happening there’s an effort to color an image that’s an exaggeration, in lots of respects, of what occurred. And, clearly, in lots of respects it’s an exaggeration of what, or possibly even only a fictional account what somebody’s perceptions is of individuals’s motivations.”
He means that in 2000, Democrats did the identical factor. Whereas Democratic nominee Al Gore’s marketing campaign sought an in depth recount of the shut ends in Florida, Gore additionally, on Dec. 13, 2000, conceded the election to George W. Bush. Democrat Hillary Clinton, within the early-morning hours after Election Day 2016, conceded to Trump. It was an act of religion within the regulation and our nation that American’s have but to see from Republican Donald Trump.
Other than the truth that all of us watched the riot because it happened, essentially the most damning testimony coping with “motivations” has come from throughout the Republican Get together fold; an excellent transfer by Congressional Dems. And identical to with gerrymandering, Berger’s, “Democrats did it too!” falls flat for lack of relevance.
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State elections board rejects NC GOP signature matching request for absentee ballots
NC Coverage Watch, Lynn Bonner, 7/15/2022
The NC Board of Elections, in a 3-2 get together line vote, rejected state Republicans’ request for signature verification on absentee ballots.
Republicans needed native elections officers to have the ability to examine voters’ signatures on their registration playing cards in opposition to signatures on requests for absentee ballots and on the returned ballots.
As a substitute, the board’s Democratic majority authorized a declaratory ruling stating the alternative. They determined county elections officers don’t have the authorized authority to confirm signatures to find out if voters ought to obtain mail-in ballots and if votes ought to be counted.
Sturdy opposition to GOP request for signature matching on NC absentee ballots
NCPW, Lynn Bonner, 7/12/2022
Greater than 7,000 individuals wrote the State Board of Elections with their ideas on the state Republican Get together request to permit county elections officers to confirm mail-in ballots by matching poll signatures with these on voter registration paperwork.
Most commenters opposed permitting native elections officers to make use of signature matching, with a whole lot of individuals calling the request an try and suppress votes. The board will take into account the GOP request Thursday morning. Legal professionals requesting the change indicated they may go to court docket if the board rejects the thought. The elections board holds on-line conferences that the general public can hearken to or watch.
Legal professionals representing the state Republican Get together, a member of the Cumberland County elections board, and a candidate for Guilford County commissioner need the state elections board to override an instruction state Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell gave native boards in July 2020 to not attempt to match signatures on absentee poll requests to signatures on voter recordsdata.
Chemours says it’s going to supply various water to extra GenX-affected households, however is imprecise about future
NC Coverage Watch, Lisa Sorg, 7/15/2022
Chemours advised the NC Division of Environmental High quality this week that it could supply substitute water provides to extra North Carolinians whose wells are contaminated with GenX, however was imprecise as as to whether it could proceed to take action if the corporate wins a federal court docket case.
In a July 13 letter from Chemours plant supervisor Daybreak Hughes to DEQ, she wrote that the corporate “reserves its rights to take acceptable actions … based mostly upon the outcomes of the pending federal litigation, together with within the occasion EPA’s Ultimate Advisory is discovered to be invalid.”
Chemours, which operates its Fayetteville Works plant close to the Cumberland/Bladen county line, is accountable for contaminating private and non-private ingesting water provides within the Decrease Cape Concern River Basin with GenX. An estimated 800,000 individuals who reside within the basin have been affected.
Chemours estimates 1,545 extra NC households with GenX-contaminated wells might be eligible for various water
NCPW, Lisa Sorg, 7/14/2022
Chemours estimates it could be required to offer various water provides to an extra 1,545 households in North Carolina whose non-public wells are contaminated with GenX – the results of extra stringent EPA suggestions, an NC Division of Environmental High quality official mentioned as we speak.
At present, Chemours gives various water provides to 245 nicely house owners in North Carolina whose water examined above 140 elements per trillion for GenX. That threshold was based mostly on a well being advisory aim set in 2018 by the state well being division.
Nonetheless, on June 22 the EPA established stricter well being advisory targets for the a number of sorts of perfluorinated compounds, together with GenX, in ingesting water. The EPA’s new aim of 10 elements per trillion in ingesting water, replaces the earlier threshold of 70 ppt.
Chemours interesting EPA’s stricter well being advisory aim for GenX
NCPW, Lisa Sorg, 7/13/2022
Chemours introduced as we speak it has filed a authorized problem to the EPA’s new well being advisory aim for GenX, a kind of poisonous perfluorinated compound, alleging the company’s resolution just isn’t grounded in the perfect accessible science.
Chemours petitioned the Third Circuit Courtroom for a evaluation. The court docket covers New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in addition to Delaware, the place the corporate is predicated.
Roughly 1 million North Carolinians within the Decrease Cape Concern River Basin are routinely uncovered to GenX of their ingesting water. Chemours’s Fayetteville Works plant, on the Cumberland/Bladen county line, is the supply of the contamination for greater than 6,200 non-public ingesting water wells and a number of other public water provides.
Based mostly on toxicology research, on June 15 the EPA introduced a brand new and extra stringent well being advisory aim for GenX in ingesting water: 10 elements per trillion, in contrast with an earlier threshold of 70 ppt. Well being advisory targets should not legally enforceable, however states typically undertake them outright. They’ll additionally use the targets as steerage to set their very own thresholds.
On the File: Ted Budd’s extremist votes in Congress
BlueNC, scharrison, 7/16/2022
He is about as average as a Tasmanian Satan:
When a mob of President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol constructing on Wednesday, they compelled an emergency recess within the Congressional proceedings to formally certify the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election. When the Senate reconvened at 8 p.m., and the Home of Representatives an hour later, the proceedings — together with the objection debates — continued, though some lawmakers who had beforehand deliberate to vote with the objectors stood down following the occupation of the Capitol. Plans to problem a variety of states after Arizona have been scrapped, as nicely — however one different objection, to Pennsylvania’s outcomes, additionally superior to a vote.
How about these “states’ rights,” y’all? No? After all not, in the event that they occur to battle with what Donald Trump desires. Budd might have been groomed and propelled into workplace by Membership For Progress, however he is been a Trump lapdog since he oozed into DC. The above proves that he does not care about voters or preserving democracy, however how does he really feel about different issues? Like hungry infants?:
Within the midst of a full-blown disaster for folks who want system to feed their youngsters, greater than 90% of Home Republicans selected Wednesday that the scarcity that has led to panic and despair just isn’t really that massive a deal, with 192 (out of 208) GOP lawmakers voting in opposition to an emergency spending invoice meant to deal with the terrifying state of affairs. Sorry, infants! Them’s the breaks.
The laws—which was voted on the identical day the White Home mentioned that Joe Biden had invoked the Protection Manufacturing Act to expedite the manufacturing and supply of system—gives $28 million in funding to the Meals and Drug Administration for inspections of system manufactured at international vegetation and to stop shortages stemming from provide chain disruptions.
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