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North Carolina deserves better
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012 - 8:35pm

The biggest obstacle to Representative Paul "Skip" Stam being the next N.C Speaker of the House is now three months away, November 6th, 2012. Voters in District 37 will have the opportunity to prevent the Architect of Amendment One from continuing to push his policies through the North Carolina Legislature. One of the very important things at stake is our public schools. Represtative Stam has continually attempted to privatize public education, but has so far failed to have any of his legislation approved. Another term will give Representative Stam ample time to create yet another tax incentive for parents to pull their children out of public schools. As Speaker of the House, the influence Stam carries will be far reaching. He succeeded in writing discrimination into the Constitution, he succeeded in destroying the Racial Justice Act, he succeeded in ensuring that a mistaken vote ushered in Fracking and he will succeed in dismantling our public education system.

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Paul "Skip" Stam strikes again
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 8:46am

You can now add Fracking to the Legacy of Paul "Skip" Stam.

When Legislator Carney accidentally hit the wrong button during the Fracking override vote, House Majority Leader Stam used a procedural motion to prevent the Bill from being reconsidered, (which did not allow Carney to correct her mistake).

And so Paul "Skip" Stam was victorious again, this time in regard to blocking an obvious error made by a legislator.

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Paul "Skip" Stam in the last thirty days
Jason Wunsch @
Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 12:18am

After reading about Paul "Skip" Stam's newest Bill to gut the Racial Justice Act, (depriving people of the right to use statistics to show racial bias in sentencing), I cannot help but reflect on the impact the House Majority Leader has had on North Carolina in just the last thirty days.

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Another Effort to Privatize Public Education
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 7:43am

A rally on Tuesday announced yet another attempt by House Majority Leader Paul "Skip" Stam to privatize public education. Legislation will be introuduced to allow corporations to send up to $40 million of their state taxes to children to attend private schools. Stam, a long time advocate of private school tax credits and the voucher system, introduced a plan that will take much needed state tax funds and channel it to private schools in the form of corporate scholarships.

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How Amendment One fared in Paul "Skip" Stam's district

Jason Wunsch @
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 11:00am

As the Democratic Candidate for N.C House in District 37, running against the Architect of Amendment One, I was curious as to what the results of the Amendment One vote were in Paul "Skip" Stam's district. The results for what has been commonly referred to as a "conservative district," were extremely encouraging:

For Amendment One: 50.1%
Against Amendment One: 49.9%

With nearly 30,000 votes, the difference in For/Against was about 80 votes.

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Jason Wunsch running against the architect of Amendment One
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 5:09pm

Running Against the Architect of Amendment One by Jason Wunsch Democratic Candidate N.C House District 37

Many tears have been shed over Tuesday's passage of Amendment One in North Carolina. I would argue these tears have been for a good reason. As I have posted on this site and in social media, the collateral effects of this amendment will now plague our state for years to come. All is not lost. Voters have the power to hire and fire their elected officials. The one I am running against is the co-author and co-sponsor of Amendment One. While Tuesday may have appeared to be a victory to my opponent, a certain number had to have caught his attention. 57% of Wake County voted against Amendment One.

The battle is not lost. Unfortunately, it will now be fought through petitions and court cases. However, on November 6th, voters of District 37 will have a choice whether to allow the architect of Amendment One to keep drafting Bills in the N.C House of Representatives. I believe a change in leadership in this District is long overdue.

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