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Old 08-08-2016, 07:32 PM
 
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Simply amazing, and there are more legal bill to come to defend a "racist" law as described by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.

"Law firms have billed Republican legislative leaders $9.3 million for legal services since January 2011, more than half of which comes from defending voter ID legislation struck down last week by a federal appeals court."
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Old 08-08-2016, 08:53 PM
 
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I hate Republicans so much.
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Old 08-09-2016, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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^wow.
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Old 08-11-2016, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Near Falls Lake
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Would it have been that much if Cooper did his job??? Didn't they have to hire outside council because he won't defend?
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Old 08-11-2016, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Would it have been that much if Cooper did his job??? Didn't they have to hire outside council because he won't defend?
Cooper did what he was elected to do. Defend the constitution of the state and country. Hence why he didn't defend unconstitutional general assembly bills.
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Old 08-11-2016, 05:31 PM
 
Location: The place where the road & the sky collide
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Would it have been that much if Cooper did his job??? Didn't they have to hire outside council because he won't defend?
Cooper defended laws until similar laws were struck down in the district court. He is not defending HB2, which is clearly unconstitutional. That's his job & he's done it.
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Old 08-12-2016, 05:41 AM
 
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I hate Republicans so much.
You can dish it out but CAN'T take it I see!

The dems controlled the state for 100 years, now it is OUR turn.

Now you see what we went through.

Elections have consequences.

And I thought dems were all for "diversity", I guess I was wrong.
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Old 08-12-2016, 11:11 AM
 
Location: North Carolina
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An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
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Old 08-12-2016, 12:57 PM
 
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You can dish it out but CAN'T take it I see!

The dems controlled the state for 100 years, now it is OUR turn.

Now you see what we went through.

Elections have consequences.

And I thought dems were all for "diversity", I guess I was wrong.
The irony you seem to miss is that when the Dems controlled the state it was because more people voted for them than voted for the republicans. When the republicans got more votes than the democrats, they then took over the government.

Now for democrats to take back the control, they will have to win by 10-15% just to get a bare majority in a chamber. Republicans have engineered the system so that they are they can hold majorities in the legislature even if the population votes massively against them. That was never the case previously.
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Old 08-12-2016, 02:07 PM
 
Location: Raleigh NC
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as said, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, but the Dems don't have to win by 10-15%. If I'm in a 100-person district where 99 vote democrat, and the next 100-person district over 51 vote Republican, it's NEVER been that the Dems got both districts because they had 140 to 52 votes.

The D's won 1 district, and their Rep was D, and the R's won the other, and their Rep was R.

Have the Republicans been putting more people in some districts, or just more Democrats?


Don't get me wrong - some of those districts are actually even worse than what the Dems drew up for Congress to get the 2 "black-majority" districts for some weird reason back in the day.
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