I feel we need to boycott North Carolina

[Left Coast2020]

I just saw online story on voting on Rachel's show, and I'm really pissed now. I wasn't before, but now I am.

How sick is it that a group of people can't play by the rules, so they have to cheat to win.

They are shutting down voting on college campuses and consolidating it into a single precinct.

Having more people show up to vote may not be enough IMO. I could be wrong. But a national

boycott of businesses in entire state is an idea I had and feel it could have some traction. These

bastards need more than a kick in the ass to let them know were not going to take this s*** sitting

down. I would like to see some national TV ad of some kind telling people to not visit NC and take

your conventions to another states like Calif, Oregon, or a more friendly state. I'll even write the

friggin script (and I do know how to write radio/TV copy)! I've

seen some facinating actions by Move-On and other groups over the years--and they worked. So

perhaps its time to speak the language people know: $$$. I'm not in NC, but I feel no matter where

you live, your actions matter. We need to get our act in gear now. Get all the names of these scum-

sucking douchbags in the legislature, and

attach their faces to something that resembles their actions to suppressing our right to vote, and

the students and minorities. The NC legislature and Gov. Corey, or whatever his f'ing name is, needs

to know he just messed with the wrong crowd. Finally, I have to quote the great Mike Malloy: "Did I

ever tell you how much I hate these people"?

[MFrohike]

1. That will surely work

There's nothing southerners like better than a bunch of outsiders telling us what to do. That always works!

By the way, given that NC has the 5th highest unemployment rate in the country and it's ticking upward, we're not going to be terribly appreciative of your efforts to worsen our economy.

[mnhtnbb]

2. Tell you what. This Chapel Hillian would prefer you organize volunteers

a la Dean's 50 state strategy to come help us make sure EVERYBODY
gets the ID required and gets registered and votes.

[struggle4progress]

3. What's your thinking about how that will actually work? This state's been almost evenly split D-R

for about as long as I can remember. And, in fact, last November, more NC voters voted for D-candidates for Congress than voted for R-candidates -- but the 2010 gerrymander then handed us only 4 Ds in office and 9 Rs. I'm gonna guess that at least half the folk down here are pretty unhappy about current affairs

I don't have any problem with boycotts, but they should be aimed at appropriate targets -- like the bastids who've been funding this kind of crap all over the country: there's probably a nice long list of them, and it might make a very informative study