Good evening USA! To my fellow Moral Monday protestors, here is our "mic drop" moment! The following is an excerpt from a News and Observer article entitled "Moral Monday" aka "Majority Monday" by Frank Hyman: "Republicans claim they are merely carrying out their campaign promises, but can that be true if: • Only 13 percent support Republican plans to cut corporate and personal income taxes and raise the sales tax, but 68 percent of voters are opposed. (Remaining voters are counted as “not sure.”) • Only 26 percent support the Republican denial of Medicaid coverage to half a million North Carolinians, but 56 percent oppose that. • From 17 to 29 percent support the Republican move to allow concealed handguns either in bars, parks or college campuses. Majorities of North Carolina voters ranging from 65 percent to 73 percent oppose those misfires. Overall only 20 percent of voters approve of the job the General Assembly is doing. And 56 percent of voters disapprove. Can these numbers be believed? They come from Raleigh-based Public Policy Polling, which was rated highly by The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Business Insider and a Fordham University study as one of the most accurate swing state pollsters during the 2012 election. But wait, here are more lopsided results. • Only 10 percent support the Republican proposal to ring up a sales tax on groceries; 81 percent oppose it. • Only 13 percent support the Senate’s tax plan and 21 percent support the House’s tax plan. A majority of North Carolina voters oppose the two plans by 68 percent and 55 percent respectively. • Only 33 percent support the Republican plan to shrink the number of early voting days. A 59 percent majority opposes the reduction. • Only 14 percent support the Republicans’ move to pull the plug on renewable energy; 73 percent of voters oppose that effort. • Only 26 percent support the Republicans on dropping the Earned Income Tax Credit. But 61 percent of voters oppose that cut. I suspect that 61 percent group includes many – if not all – of the 64,000 veteran and military families who depended on that tax credit last year. Yes, in a public protest like “Moral Monday” – or “Majority Monday” if you will – participants are mostly Democrats like myself. But in the privacy of their homes 63 percent of unaffiliated voters and 40 percent of Republican voters report their disapproval of the General Assembly’s caustic bills. The Republican leadership has clearly swung to the right of North Carolina voters, even across party lines. Most Tar Heels sense the painful handcuffs Republican legislators are bringing their way. So can a protest movement representing a majority of voters stop them? We’ll know in 2014"--Raleigh News and Observer
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:49:47 +0000
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