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From the email ...

There is no question that we have the law on our side and have the evidence to show that these illegally drawn maps are not in the best interest of the people of North Carolina.

In fact, in a previous court ruling, the three-judge panel noted:

“Plaintiffs, in their challenge, have raised serious issues and arguments about, among other things, the extent to which racial classifications were used in the enactment of these Plans.”

We need your help now to have the resources to be heard in court! Our fight requires retaining the best legal counsel and expert witnesses to show how the Republican maps do not comply with the law.

Spread the word if you please.

The following should appear in my local paper within a week:

GOP assault on democracy
The right to vote is the fundamental, defining principle of a democracy, yet Republicans have now shown that they have no respect for voting rights, and they really have no interest in this country being a democracy. An activist Republican Supreme Court has allowed elections to be bought courtesy of their Citizens United decision, but that was not enough. Now over 30 republican led state legislatures have tried to enact voter id laws that would take the vote away from hundreds of thousands of senior citizens, the poor, the young and even some veterans.

I spent most of Saturday afternoon sitting on a little chair in a conference room of the Marriott Hotel in Greensboro. It was beautiful afternoon, especially for January, but I didn't mind as I was in that conference room to do the business of the North Carolina Democratic Party. I thought there was to be a meeting of the State Executive Committee; for the most part I was mistaken.

... frames best. The following will be submitted tomorrow as an editorial in my local newspaper. I hope to write one a month until Nov. 2012. The next one is already blocked out.

Republicans constantly crow about shrinking “big” government, about getting government out of the business of regulating lives and corporations. Individuals should sink or swim on their own and corporations should be unhindered in their business practices.