North Carolina lawmakers set record overriding government on budget, fracking (and death penalty)

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

North Carolina lawmakers set record overriding government on budget, fracking

By Wade Rawlins
RALEIGH, North Carolina | Tue Jul 3, 2012 2:45pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Republican-led North Carolina legislature voted to override Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue on the annual budget late on Monday, a state record 11th time in the last two years they have overturned her veto.

It was the third time this week that the legislature has overridden Perdue's veto. Earlier on Monday they differed with the governor and voted to open the door to shale gas exploration in North Carolina using hydrofracturing technology and horizontal drilling, known as fracking.

They enacted a third bill over the governor's objection on Monday that will limit death row prisoners' ability to use statistical evidence of racial bias to challenge their sentences.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/03/us-usa-northcarolina-record-idUSBRE86211J20120703

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Mostly, it was ignorance on display. What an embarrassment (and disaster)...n/t