{"id":18265,"date":"2018-11-12T07:34:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18265"},"modified":"2018-11-12T07:34:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:34:32","slug":"is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/12\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Is North Carolina the most Toxic State in the Union?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This long-running <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/06\/15\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a> deserves a new entry, but frankly I&#8217;m too tired to put something together, so here&#8217;s Stephen Wolf of <em><strong>The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/11\/6\/1810593\/-N-Carolina-elections-are-a-huge-win-for-democracy-paving-the-way-to-strike-down-GOP-gerrymandering?detail=emaildksp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instead<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a critical victory for fair elections and the rule of law, North Carolina voters\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/north-carolina\/articles\/2018-11-06\/the-latest-officials-ballot-troubles-at-some-nc-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have elected civil rights crusader\u00a0Anita Earls<\/a>\u00a0as the next Democratic justice of the\u00a0state Supreme Court. Just as importantly, voters\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/11\/06\/us\/elections\/results-north-carolina-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rejected two deceptively written constitutional amendments<\/a>\u00a0that Republicans had put on the ballot so they\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2018\/9\/7\/1794042\/-Voting-Rights-Roundup-N-Carolina-Supreme-Court-won-t-block-GOP-s-deceptive-amendments-from-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could pack that very same court<\/a>\u00a0to stop it from curtailing their worst-in-the-nation gerrymandering and voter suppression. Furthermore, voters rejected Republican legislators&#8217; ploy to usurp Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper&#8217;s power to appoint the state Board of Elections in their quest to prevent Democrats from expanding early voting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the link for more progressive jubilation, which I think is justified, given the toxicity of the North Carolina Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This long-running thread deserves a new entry, but frankly I&#8217;m too tired to put something together, so here&#8217;s Stephen Wolf of The Daily Kos instead: In a critical victory for fair elections and the rule of law, North Carolina voters\u00a0have elected civil rights crusader\u00a0Anita Earls\u00a0as the next Democratic justice of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/12\/is-north-carolina-the-most-toxic-state-in-the-union-ctd-32\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18266,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18265\/revisions\/18266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}