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NRaleighLiberal

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Tue Jul 3, 2012, 09:43 AM Jul 2012

So now we have the exhaustion Tactic in use by the NC GOP - Fracking veto override details

http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/11274537/

"RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly voted late Monday to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s vetoes of the $20.2 billion 2012-13 state budget as well as a controversial measure to legalize fracking.

The vote to override Perdue's veto on a bill that would open the state up to shale gas exploration passed by a close 72-47 margin, and it appears to have hinged on a mistake.

After she voted, Rep. Becky Carney, D-Mecklenburg, could be heard on her microphone saying, “Oh my gosh. I pushed green.”

House Majority Leader Paul Stam used a procedural motion to make sure the bill can’t be reconsidered, even if Carney's vote was mistake.

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Hold an endless boring session. Dem presses wrong button. GOP elated. "The vote is the vote" - even though it is clearly a mistake.

NC - just another in a recent string of embarrassments......

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So now we have the exhaustion Tactic in use by the NC GOP - Fracking veto override details (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jul 2012 OP
Imagine her as Prez... lame54 Jul 2012 #1
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