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Speaker 1: The North Carolina governor's race was tight, but when the

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Speaker 1: dust cleared, Republican incumbent Pat McQuary was defeated by Democrat

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Speaker 1: Roy Cooper. So Republicans, who control of state legislature, went

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Speaker 1: into emergency session. They wrote legislation limit the amount of

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Speaker 1: power the incoming governor would have. The law would cut

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Speaker 1: the number of appointments a governor can make by eight

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Speaker 1: percent cabinet members. The appoints would have to be confirmed

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Speaker 1: by the Republican state Senate. Authority from the state Board

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Speaker 1: of Education will be transferred from the incoming governor to

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Speaker 1: an elected superintendent who happens to be a Republican. Democrats

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Speaker 1: and Republicans would share power over the State Board of Elections.

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Speaker 1: During odd years when there are no elections, a Democrat

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Speaker 1: would chair the board. During the election years, a Republican

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Speaker 1: would Chare it well. Liberals in North Carolina and beyond

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Speaker 1: our spitting mad? They are outraged. Angry protesters were arrested

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Speaker 1: for disrupting the emergency session, and the protests continued. They're

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Speaker 1: claiming they're being us enfranchised the incoming Democrat governor, threatening

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Speaker 1: lawsuits to drive by media calling it a coup. They

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Speaker 1: conveniently omit the fact that when a Republican was elected

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Speaker 1: lieutenant governor in the nineteen eighties, North Carolina democrats in

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Speaker 1: charge stripped his powers. It's not a coup and the

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Speaker 1: voters aren't being disenfranchised. It's politics, and this is what

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Speaker 1: it looks like when Republicans have a spine. That's all

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Speaker 1: this is, and we'll see if it actually holds up.

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Speaker 1: I got a doubt