Laboratory of GOP Activism

“When Pat McCrory, a Republican former mayor of Charlotte, was elected governor last year, he pledged to ‘bring this state together,’ and to focus on bread-and-butter issues amid an ailing economy,” the New York Times reports.

“But with Republicans controlling all branches of the state government for the first time in more than a century, the legislature pushed through a wide range of conservative change. The Republicans not only cut taxes and business regulations, as many had expected, but also allowed stricter regulations on abortion clinics, ended teacher tenure, blocked the expansion of Medicaid, cut unemployment benefits, removed obstacles to the death penalty, allowed concealed guns in bars and restaurants, and mandated the teaching of cursive writing.”

“Just this week, Mr. McCrory signed into law strict voter identification
requirements, prohibiting same-day registration and cutting early
voting.”