After marriage question, NC Legislature goes home

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GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press
Updated 08:20 p.m., Wednesday, September 14, 2011

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state Legislature adjourned Wednesday after a three-day session in which the Republican majority took criticism from all fronts for getting a constitutional question on gay marriage on the ballot next spring, and for doing too little on some issues and not enough on others ...

This week's session will be remembered for resolving in barely 24 hours what had been knocking around the hallways of the Legislative Building for eight years — a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit marriage to between one man and one woman. Democrats, gay rights advocates and dozens of business leaders slammed the GOP leadership for holding votes on the measure without public comment and putting the elimination of the rights of gays and lesbians on next May's ballot.

Democrats complained repeatedly that the Legislature focused too much time on the amendment and secondary legislation, and not enough on getting the unemployed back to work and to help Hurricane Irene victims. General Assembly administrators say it costs about $50,000 for each day lawmakers are in session ...

A separate constitutional amendment approved by the House months ago to prevent governments from taking land for private economic development also sets up the new Republican leadership for criticism for failing to follow through on their 2010 campaign platform. The eminent domain amendment was listed on its "100 Days that Will Change North Carolina" platform. The Senate didn't consider this amendment this week ...

http://www.chron.com/news/article/After-marriage-question-NC-Legislature-goes-home-2169655.php

[mwb970]

1. The same sort of thing happened here in Ohio.

We foolishly elected as our new governor a right-wing teabagger, who is currently the 49th most popular governor in the land, ahead only of Florida's Rick Scott, who is an actual criminal AND a teabagger.

After being elected on jobs, jobs, jobs, the moment the new governor took power attention turned to abortion, gays, guns, and God, and has remained firmly there ever since, while Ohioans continue to suffer.

As usual, republicans refuse to actually govern, presumably because they so despise the government itself, which is the voice of "we the people" in our society. Who was that guy who blathered on about how "government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth"? Obviously he was not a republican!