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Mr. Moore v. Harper Goes To Washington

Guess what he’ll do there?

N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore in 2019. Photo via Colin Campbell/WUNC.

Election rigging has been Republican SOP at least since their REDMAP project in 2010. The gerrymandered districts they drew in 2011 continue to pay dividends a decade and a half later.

Republicans are now so brazen about their intentions to seek power above all else that they’ve said so into microphones in state after state. Thomas Mills of Politics NC that the latest comes from (you guessed it) North Carolina:

On Wednesday, the state house overrode Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of the bill that strips power from the in-coming Democrats elected to executive branch offices. Out-going Speaker and Congressman-elect Tim Moore told Steve Bannon, “This action item today is going to be critical to making sure North Carolina continues to be able to do what it can to deliver victories for Republicans up and down the ticket.”

Yes, you read that right. The bill was not about disaster relief. It was not about good government. It was not about the people of North Carolina. It was about consolidating power and rigging elections for Republicans.

Bolts reminds us that Moore is headed to Congress from the district he gerrymandered for himself. I’ll remind you that it was Moore who brought the independent state legislature theory, “probably the most intractable constitutional con in history,” before the U.S Supreme Court.

Mills again:

Republicans have rigged the state by subverting democracy. They used extreme gerrymandering to give themselves almost veto-proof majorities in both houses of the legislature. With a partisan and complicit state Supreme Court, they have few restraints on their power. Now, they are trying eliminate the checks and balances of the executive branch to further consolidate their power. As one friend wrote, “They’re now using all three branches to guarantee their hold on power.”

What do you think will be Job One for a guy like Tim Moore in his new Capitol Hill job?

Watch this guy closely. You’ll be hearing his name moore soon.

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