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Related: About this forum‘Banana Republic’ In North Carolina: GOP Committee Chair ‘Approves’ Bill To Gut Clean Energy Without
The ALEC-sponsored bill to gut North Carolinas clean energy standard failed last week in one House committee. But as the Charlotte Observer reports, last night it passed a Senate committee over shouted objections to do something most people take for granted in a democracy counting votes to see which side has more.
Over the objections of Democratic lawmakers, a Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday to end the states 6-year-old renewable energy program.
Opponents of the bill shouted No! when voting to show their frustration at Republican Chairman Bill Rabons refusal to count votes with a show of hands. In what was clearly a razor-thin margin, both sides said they would have won if the votes had been counted.
North Carolina is not a banana republic, Democratic Sen. Josh Stein of Raleigh, one of the no votes, said after the meeting. That was no way to run a proceeding.
Over the objections of Democratic lawmakers, a Senate committee approved legislation Wednesday to end the states 6-year-old renewable energy program.
Opponents of the bill shouted No! when voting to show their frustration at Republican Chairman Bill Rabons refusal to count votes with a show of hands. In what was clearly a razor-thin margin, both sides said they would have won if the votes had been counted.
North Carolina is not a banana republic, Democratic Sen. Josh Stein of Raleigh, one of the no votes, said after the meeting. That was no way to run a proceeding.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/02/1952321/banana-republic-in-north-carolina-gop-committee-chair-approves-bill-to-gut-clean-energy-without-counting-votes/
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‘Banana Republic’ In North Carolina: GOP Committee Chair ‘Approves’ Bill To Gut Clean Energy Without (Original Post)
octoberlib
May 2013
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nclib
(1,013 posts)1. How is this even legal?
Can they just do anything, votes be damned?
barbtries
(28,702 posts)2. i think they've gone insane
with power.
it is really sickening. if it wasn't for my job i'd be back in CA already.
jonthebru
(1,034 posts)3. Organizations make their own rules.
Sad, but true.