The scenario that plays out each week at the General Assembly has become predictably, radically, and often tragically awful:
The Republican majority, drawing from a national playbook of schemes, slashes funding for essential services and strips someone of their fundamental rights and personal dignity. Then, Democratic legislators backed by Governor Perdue do what they can to minimize the lasting damage.
This week– like too many weeks this session– Republicans attacked schools, women, and voters everywhere.
ATTACK ON EDUCATION:
- Republican Senate budget cuts MORE from schools than the GOP House Budget does: http://bit.ly/kPqE3N
- Gov. Perdue fights for education: http://bit.ly/mH6fr9
- One teacher’s story: http://bit.ly/iR1YQE
- Eliminate need-based scholarships for community college students: http://bit.ly/kcSfVR
- “The dismantling of the public school system has begun”: http://bit.ly/lStlqD
- Republican Senate budget would cut almost $1.3 BILLION from education: http://bit.ly/kp6D9l
- Grim education numbers: http://bit.ly/mptGi4
HEROICS ON FILM: By fast-tracking a belittling abortion counseling bill that would require women to receive and view an ultrasound before a procedure, Democratic Representative Alice Bordsen says that Republicans presume that “women are really stupid” and “lack a moral compass”: http://bit.ly/mllO6x
VOTER SUPPRESSION: Remember the early voting process we fought so hard for? The GOP just shortened it by a week: http://bit.ly/iNpa0N
Please forward this email to a friend. The attack on the things that make North Carolina a great place to live continues every day that this majority Republican legislature is in session. Only by keeping your neighbors informed of the real damage they’re doing can we stop them– now and in 2012.
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