Addicting Info: 10 Embarrassing Things Republicans Have Done to North Carolina Since the Tea Party Seized Power

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Addicting Info has collected the 10 most embarrassing things that Gov. Pat McCrory and his tea party cohorts have done to North Carolina since they took over the state government for the first time in over 150 years. Read the whole thing here, but here are the broad points:

1. Reinstating Jim Crow-style voter suppression laws 53 years after the historic Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro

2. Under the guise of motorcycle safety, passing a big-government Republican takeover of North Carolina women’s uteruses, which Gov. McCrory signed into law despite a campaign promise not to restrict women’s reproductive rights

3. Cutting funding for programs that feed the hungry and house and clothe the unemployed — which is a paradox because these Republicans claim to be Christians and this directly countermands Jesus’ requirement that Christians must help the poor and needy

4. Attempting to unilaterally nullify the U.S. Constitution and create a North Carolina state religion

5. Killing a proposal for background checks for gun buyers while passing a bill to make it legal to carry concealed weapons on college campuses, state property, greenways, bike trails, at sporting events and in businesses that serve alcohol

6. Repealing the Racial Justice Act that enabled the exoneration of innocent African-American prisoners awaiting execution

7. Rewriting divorce laws so that the GOP big-government now forces couples to wait two years before divorce can be granted instead of one year and requires them to take government-sponsored courses communication skills and conflict resolution

8. Proposing a felony ban on exposing of women’s — but not men’s — nipples

9. Giving a tax break to the wealthy, like Gov. McCrory’s economic adviser Art Pope, a millionaire Koch brothers Mini-Me, while at the same time raising taxes on the poor and middle class

10. Gutting education in a state that was once known as the best educated in the South, which the tea party needed to do because its continued success depends on creating millions of ignorant new North Carolina voters

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  1. As A Former NC resident, I was afraid of State’s Direction when GOP Rubber Stamp Richard Head Burr was reelected to a 2nd Term

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