Why the Right may be willing to throw Richard Burr over the side -- Hint: it's about politics

[G_j]

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2020/03/21/why-the-right-may-be-willing-to-throw-burr-over-the-side-hint-its-about-politics/?utm_source=23844448364860320&utm_medium=Facebook_Mobile_Feed&utm_campaign=2020-03-21+NC+Policy+Watch+--+Why+the+Right+may+be+willing+to+throw+Burr+over+the+side+%E2%80%94+Hint%3A...&utm_content=23844448365160320&source=States+Newsroom+Retargeting+-+North+Carolina%2C+US


Nationwide, an outraged public has called for North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr to resign, after revelations that he failed to warn people about the new coronavirus pandemic. Burr, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, had access to crucial information as far back as January about the likely impact, but assured the public the situation was under control. Instead, he sold stocks in companies likely to be lose value as result of the crisis.

Meanwhile this has been striking: the crickets chirping over on Right-Wing Avenue.

Rather than leaping to Burr’s defense as they usually do when, say, President Trump is the object of allegations of impropriety, (which happens weekly), most conservative forces have been muted. (Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson is the exception, calling for Burr to explain himself or resign.)

While it would be nice to believe that this reaction is about morality and a concern for ethics in government, that seems extremely unlikely for a movement that has been joined at the hip with the Great Prevaricator for three years.

Here is the more likely explanation: politics.

If Burr is forced to resign less than two years prior to the end of his term — a term that he has already announced will be his last — it’s true that Gov. Roy Cooper would get to name his replacement. There is, however, a big catch: Under a 2018 law approved by Republican supermajorities in the General Assembly, the selection would have to come from a list of three individuals submitted by the executive committee of the state Republican Party. Previously, the governor only had to choose someone affiliated with the same political party as the outgoing senator.

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[customerserviceguy]

1. Interesting

Thanks for posting this!

[Sucha NastyWoman]

2. Wait . . . Whose job is it to lead and inform the public

About a possible approaching pandemic?

The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee or the president of the United States?