Actual rights may vary depending on skin color Another week, another unanimous Supreme Court decision telling the State of North Carolina to fuck right off with their racist gerrymandering. Last week we told you about North Carolina state Senator Richard Rucho who sat down with his buddy state Rep. David Lewis and cooked up a scheme to pack all those pesky brown Democratic voters into a few federal districts. If anyone noticed, they would just say they were complying with the Voting Rights Act (VRA) by creating majority-minority districts. OMG, so clever!
Oregon is pricey in the bigger towns - Portland, specifically, and to a lesser extent, Eugene, Salem, Bend, etc. But Oregon overall isn't too pricey, and we have a sorta decent minimum wage setting the wage floor too. And the pot laws.... And the beautiful green countrysides... and the coast... and the mountains... and the nice libruls liberally sprinkled all over, especially in the northwest of the state.
Western North Carolina is beautiful. Asheville is in the mountains and full of hippies, Charlotte has lots of big employers and decent barbecue. I spent many childhood vacations in and around Asheville and have very fond memories.
I live in WNC and will concur with @TakingAmes:disqus, Asheville is a good place to be. The rest of the area... well, comes down to how much you like seeing Confederate flags and Trump/Pence bumper stickers everywhere. Beautiful scenery, though!
I wonder if this persistent behavior might be enough for Chief Justice Roberts to conclude that Section 5 of the VRA needs to be brought back after all. When Section 5 was in force, states like North Carolina had to submit their districting plans and voting rights laws to the feds for approval. Oddly enough, these states were still trying to rig things for Republicans, but they knew they had to hide it real good or their scheme wouldn't pass review by the Justice Department.
Now that Roberts has decided that because Section 5 was so effective in stopping these yahoos, it's no longer needed, what do you know? North Carolina went right back to designing districts that looked like bug splat and that would result in the maximum number of Republican wins. Maybe Section 5 needs to be revived, huh Johnny?
I lived in Austin for about 31 years, spent 4-1/3 years just outside of Taylor, and am now about 14 miles south of Thorndale. I want a place that is cool most of the time, has legal pot, and preferably Blue. I was interested in the area near Corvallis/Eugene, Oregon but it seems to expensive.But then I could live in a shitty trailer house easily!
Vermont almost fits the bill. We have medical marijauna and only civil charge for less then some amount I cant remember. Our bland, cookie cutter Republican Governor just nixed fully legal marijuana but maybe the legislature will bring it back. Home prices vary pretty widely depending on location, view and proximity to ski resorts.
And nothing happened with the AG, except she didn't manage to get a job in his administration. I see she joined a bunch of jerk AG's in a brief asking the S Court to reinstate the travel ban.
Oregon is pricey in the bigger towns - Portland, specifically, and to a lesser extent, Eugene, Salem, Bend, etc. But Oregon overall isn't too pricey, and we have a sorta decent minimum wage setting the wage floor too. And the pot laws.... And the beautiful green countrysides... and the coast... and the mountains... and the nice libruls liberally sprinkled all over, especially in the northwest of the state.
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Our dept secretary's son lives in NC. She visits him all the time and loves it.
Western North Carolina is beautiful. Asheville is in the mountains and full of hippies, Charlotte has lots of big employers and decent barbecue. I spent many childhood vacations in and around Asheville and have very fond memories.
I live in WNC and will concur with @TakingAmes:disqus, Asheville is a good place to be. The rest of the area... well, comes down to how much you like seeing Confederate flags and Trump/Pence bumper stickers everywhere. Beautiful scenery, though!
Come on down to the Hill Country- you'll hardly know you're in Texas as long as you don't look at the foliage.
I wonder if this persistent behavior might be enough for Chief Justice Roberts to conclude that Section 5 of the VRA needs to be brought back after all. When Section 5 was in force, states like North Carolina had to submit their districting plans and voting rights laws to the feds for approval. Oddly enough, these states were still trying to rig things for Republicans, but they knew they had to hide it real good or their scheme wouldn't pass review by the Justice Department.
Now that Roberts has decided that because Section 5 was so effective in stopping these yahoos, it's no longer needed, what do you know? North Carolina went right back to designing districts that looked like bug splat and that would result in the maximum number of Republican wins. Maybe Section 5 needs to be revived, huh Johnny?
I lived in Austin for about 31 years, spent 4-1/3 years just outside of Taylor, and am now about 14 miles south of Thorndale. I want a place that is cool most of the time, has legal pot, and preferably Blue. I was interested in the area near Corvallis/Eugene, Oregon but it seems to expensive.But then I could live in a shitty trailer house easily!
Vermont almost fits the bill. We have medical marijauna and only civil charge for less then some amount I cant remember. Our bland, cookie cutter Republican Governor just nixed fully legal marijuana but maybe the legislature will bring it back. Home prices vary pretty widely depending on location, view and proximity to ski resorts.
You need a week-long road trip in Oregon between Eugene and Portland. There might be a smallish town thats more blue than red, and cheapish too.
Got caught, yes. Did it, no.We have the biggest medicare fraudster as our Gov.And Trump got caught bribing our AG.
Love the eyes.
And nothing happened with the AG, except she didn't manage to get a job in his administration. I see she joined a bunch of jerk AG's in a brief asking the S Court to reinstate the travel ban.
What is it about southern bigots and beetle brows? It seems to be a feature.
She is a POS.
So why in the blue-and-red hell, in the world's allegedly free-est country, are elections not drawn up and reviewed by non-partisan committees?
Oh wait, there are no such things as non-partisans in the USA, just like the comments here at Wonkette. Carry on.