More NC Elections Shenanigans

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@iiandyiiii

Hopefully the Democrats at least learn from this that they must expect every possible dirty trick. They should assume the worst at all times from their Republican colleagues.

I don’t think it was a “dirty trick” at all. Here’s what the Speaker had to say, from LHoD’s article:

“If they didn’t want it to pass, all they had to do was show up for work,” Moore said during an afternoon news conference. “Our job as a House member is to be on that floor, in that seat, near that green or that red button when we take up matters.”

Moore repeatedly maintained during the question-and-answer session that no announcement was made Tuesday that there would be no votes held Wednesday morning. The budget bill was on the published House calendar for action Wednesday, as it has been for weeks without coming up for a vote.

“I made clear that, if I saw an opportunity to [override the veto], I’m going to do it,” he said. “The bill was properly noticed. Procedures were properly followed.”

… Moore has made it clear for weeks that he would call the override vote whenever the opportunity arose.

“The speaker said at any given opportunity he would call it,” longtime Rep. Julia Howard, R-Davie, said. “The opportunity was there, and he called it.”