With less than three months until Election Day, organizations across North Carolina are thinking outside the box to get folks fired up to vote.
State Sen. Michael Lee has voted to restrict abortion rights seven times in the last several years. That’s despite campaigning on a promise to “oppose an extreme ban on abortion.”
“The very soul of public education is on the ballot and it’s going to take champions of public education to meet this moment,” Democratic candidate Mo Green said.
Republicans, from Trump to Mark Robinson, have been running away from their anti-choice records, hoping voters will overlook their controversial stance against reproductive rights.
Originally elected to the state House in 2020, Erin Paré is the lone Republican representing Wake County in the NCGA. Her political career has been marked by her support for legislation that focuses on right-wing culture war issues.
The Biden-Harris administration approved a plan under which NC will give hospitals additional Medicaid funds if they forgive the medical debt of approximately 2 million residents. The plan has the potential to relieve as much as $4B in medical debt from the last decade.
Charter One is a national organization that manages charter schools across the country and many schools in North Carolina, including the schools Mark Robinson’s wife Yolanda is involved with.
Despite running to represent millions of our state’s workers, Luke Farley is anti-worker, anti-union, anti-minimum wage, against COVID-19 mandates of any kind and is even opposed to federal heat safety regulations for workers.
Ruth Smith has been a personal injury attorney for more than 20 years and in 2016 expanded her practice to include conservative causes and organizations who often file lawsuits claiming “reverse racism” – discrimination against white clients.
The NCDHHS report outlines erroneous billing issues, record-keeping, bookkeeping and monitoring violations. It also alleges that Robinson’s wife, Yolanda Hill, improperly hired a family member.