RALEIGH – This morning, the Republican-controlled NC House held a surprise vote to override the governor’s veto of a proposed $24 billion state budget. The vote was taken over the objections of Democratic representatives and with almost half of all NC House members absent.

Nachfolgend eine Stellungnahme von Brent Laurenz, deputy director of Common Cause NC:

“Today’s surprise vote in the NC House is no way to conduct the people’s business, let alone act on something as consequential as our state’s budget. Such shameful tricks severely undermine public confidence in the integrity of the lawmaking process and harm the spirit of bipartisanship and mutual respect that is vital to a functioning legislative body. We must expect better from legislative leaders.”

Common Cause NC ist eine überparteiliche Basisorganisation, die sich der Wahrung der Grundwerte der amerikanischen Demokratie verschrieben hat.

Media contact: Bryan Warner, Common Cause NC, 919-836-0027 or bwarner@commoncause.org