NOT practicing what they preach: The 'encroaching powers' of state government in North Carolina

Source: North Carolina Republican Party

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With State Control, North Carolina Republicans Pursue Smaller Prizes.  (The New York Times, 4/6/2015)

A new frontier in hypocrisy.

But there is a new frontier in the battles over how democracy should work in North Carolina. And it is local. 

This session, bills introduced by Republican lawmakers would reconfigure a number of local government bodies around the state, prompting allegations that Republicans are gerrymandering and changing election rules at the city council and county commission levels 

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