GOP lawmakers push bill to keep Trump, RNC in North Carolina

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Bryan Anderson, Associated Press/report For America
Updated 12:56 pm CDT, Monday, June 8, 2020

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are planning to vote this week on a measure that would allow President Donald Trump to speak in front of a packed Republican National Convention without some of the restrictions officials have required elsewhere to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Tuesday's vote will largely be a symbolic one, given the measure will almost assuredly be rejected by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and Republicans will be unlikely to have the votes to override his veto.

A draft of the bill, authored by Republican State Rep. John Torbett of Gaston and circulated last week by North Carolina Republican Party chairman Michael Whatley, calls for convention events in Charlotte to be held at full capacity, just as Trump had demanded from Cooper.

Cooper refused, saying the convention in August would have to be scaled down to protect public health. In response, Trump announced plans to hold his speech elsewhere.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/GOP-lawmakers-push-bill-to-keep-Trump-RNC-in-15324852.php

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Now you look at these 2 sponsoring asshats and tell me they don't reek of goodolboy and privilege.

With a touch of evangelist hair and crazy eyes mixed in.

[kysrsoze]

2. It's their funeral - in more ways than one.

[riversedge]

3. True, but the major problem is they go home and spread to families, co-workers etc etc.

[soothsayer]

4. N.C. is just not that into you

Take the hint

[Me.]

5. What Is The Pointless Point?

[cstanleytech]

6. Wait........ he should publically agree to let them hold it but with the stipulation that the RNC

agree to absorb all of the medical cost should anyone there get the virus within 14 days as well as the cost for anyone they pass it on to.

[keithbvadu2]

10. The RNC and Trump would easily agree to that.

The RNC and Trump would easily agree to that.

After all the cities they have stiffed for earlier rallies/conventions.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Gov Cooper doing the right thing!

Maga ass hats bitch because they are being “restricted.” Wait until you hear the moans that a dem gov didn’t do enough to protect us!!

Let the creeps go somewhere else

[murielm99]

8. How can they be stopped if some venue

agrees to have the convention? If some hotels agree to house the attendees? What do they do? Call out the National Guard?

Trump and the rest of the republican scum are going to do as they please.

[lark]

11. Good, let him go to hard red states/cities & see how they do.

If the asshats crowd a stadium, yell and chant, well, they will probably get what they deserve. I just hope their hospitals are sufficient. I want it (need it) to be where it is truly deserved, not a blue or purple city in a red state, but red, red, red all the way.