Binker reports; Thom Tillis tells the truth

Submitted by James on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:22pm

If you're not keeping up with Mark Binker's reporting, you're missing the best coverage of the NC GOP Tea Party Tantrum you'll find anywhere. Today's story sorts through what's likely to happen tomorrow in Raleigh.

The General Assembly is due to reconvene Wednesday to consider overriding Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto of the Racial Justice Act (background link), which allows death row inmates to challenge their sentences based on statistical data.

Here's my own take on the subject:

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One Bite at the Apple

Submitted by usna77 on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 3:07pm.

The citizens of the state deserve finality in the legislative process. Either a bill becomes law or dies on the vine in a reasonable period of time.

So let's amend the state Constitution to allow the General Assembly only one chance to override a veto by the Governor, within 10 calendar days of the Governor wielding the veto pen.

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- sign on Einstein's office wall.