NC lawmakers move to strip election appointment power from Governor (12-11-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] So, related to the Supreme Court race that's right now being heard in the challenges of being heard in the Board of Elections meeting, you also have, against this backdrop but also related, Senate Bill 382.

[00:00:45] Senate Bill 382 was Hurricane Helene relief funding, like another quarter of a billion dollars. So, bringing the grand total to more than a billion that the state has allocated for Helene relief and recovery efforts, more to come on that. But, also, it's like 130-something pages and, like, more than 110 of them are related to things not Hurricane Helene related.

[00:01:12] Um, this is part of, uh, or the, part of the bill is to move the appointment power of the State Board of Elections away from the governor and move it over to the state auditor.

[00:01:27] The governor vetoed this, and, and there's another component of the Senate Bill 382 that's got full funding for the vouchers, I believe, or did they already override that one?

[00:01:37] I think they were, well, it doesn't matter. Point is, Governor Cooper vetoed the Helene relief bill, Senate Bill 382.

[00:01:46] Um, yeah, yeah, yeah, the voucher money bill was a different bill.

[00:01:51] Excuse me. So, that, forget I said anything.

[00:01:54] So, the other component was the changing of the Attorney General provisions. I'll get to that, too.

[00:01:59] So, Senate Bill 382 gets vetoed, goes back to the Senate, Senate overrides the veto, because the Republicans have a super majority in the Senate, and now it is going to the House.

[00:02:14] It is scheduled for a vote today, right as I get off the air.

[00:02:19] Coincidence? Probably completely, but it doesn't matter.

[00:02:22] So, 3 o'clock or so is when they're going to start debating the override, and if they override this vote, it becomes law.

[00:02:31] Until, like, it's challenged in court, which I'm sure Cooper and company will do.

[00:02:38] Um, I'm seeing that, uh, House member Cecil Brockman, a Democrat, I believe he's from Greensboro or the area up there.

[00:02:49] Um, Cecil Brockman, not going to be present for the vote.

[00:02:56] This is what they call up in Raleigh, taking a walk.

[00:03:01] Whether it's justifiable, it's an excused absence, or whatever, this is what critics call taking a walk,

[00:03:08] where you don't want to have to vote on a controversial piece of legislation,

[00:03:12] one that you say your party, your leadership is demanding you vote a certain way,

[00:03:17] but your constituents don't agree.

[00:03:20] Um, maybe you don't agree, but you don't want to cross your party leaders.

[00:03:24] You don't want the blowback, so you just, quote, take a walk.

[00:03:27] I forget who it was a year or so ago.

[00:03:30] Uh, some member took a walk and claimed he went to the dentist,

[00:03:35] but he was back within like 15 minutes immediately after the vote.

[00:03:38] So, right.

[00:03:40] So they do that so they don't have to take the vote.

[00:03:42] But what it means is that the numbers now change.

[00:03:46] So with Brockman not being there, the Republicans can afford to lose one vote

[00:03:52] because they still enjoy a super majority because the, uh, the new members,

[00:03:59] the new legislative session has not begun.

[00:04:01] It begins after the swearing in of everybody that won in November.

[00:04:06] That happens later.

[00:04:08] This is the last meeting of the current house super majority.

[00:04:13] So they have the votes.

[00:04:15] If everybody votes along party lines and everybody shows up,

[00:04:17] but with Brockman not being there now,

[00:04:20] it seems Republicans will have an extra vote,

[00:04:23] which might be handy because there are a couple members out in Western North Carolina

[00:04:28] that voted against this bill when it was first passed.

[00:04:33] And so now they would have to flip their vote to support the override.

[00:04:41] And, uh, I've seen Mark Pless representative from, uh, Western North Carolina.

[00:04:46] He has, uh, he voted against it.

[00:04:48] He says he will be there today to vote.

[00:04:50] So now with Brockman gone, Pless can vote.

[00:04:53] No, and it doesn't affect the override totals needed.

[00:04:59] And then you've got the return of the momos, the moral Mondayers, right?

[00:05:06] These leftist activists got the band back together again.

[00:05:11] And, uh, they descend, they, they protest on Mondays.

[00:05:15] It's right there in their name.

[00:05:16] Uh, they go in on Mondays when, by the way,

[00:05:19] usually the legislature doesn't do anything,

[00:05:21] but, uh, they, they harnessed the,

[00:05:25] the power of the teachers and the teachers union.

[00:05:28] Don't call it a union, but it's totally a union.

[00:05:31] Anyway, they harnessed the teachers when the teachers had been screwed over on their pay

[00:05:36] by the Democrats back in 2008, 2009,

[00:05:40] because Democrats were in charge until 2011.

[00:05:43] And Democrats had, uh, frozen teacher pay.

[00:05:47] They furloughed a boatload of teachers because the economy crashed.

[00:05:50] And the Democrats had funded like no rainy day fund.

[00:05:55] They had no reserves.

[00:05:56] The tax, uh, structure was terrible.

[00:05:59] Uh, they were running structural deficits every year.

[00:06:02] They were in debt to the federal government through unemployment insurance and stuff.

[00:06:06] So they just really badly mismanaged the state for a very long time

[00:06:10] because the Democrats controlled the state for about 150 years.

[00:06:14] And so when they finally lost power,

[00:06:16] Republicans come in and, uh, the Democrat party is decimated by corruption,

[00:06:21] electoral losses, bunch of people went to prison.

[00:06:24] Um, and so Republicans come in and they start revamping,

[00:06:29] not just the tax structure, but also, uh,

[00:06:32] uh, the pay structure for teacher pay and outrage ensues.

[00:06:36] So teach.

[00:06:38] So the, uh, the moral Monday folks harness the, uh,

[00:06:42] the power of the teachers union and the teachers who are disgruntled.

[00:06:47] And they fill this void left by a hollowed out Democrat party,

[00:06:53] North Carolina Democrat party.

[00:06:55] They take over the, they go into, they,

[00:06:57] they march on the legislative hall.

[00:06:59] They, uh, they start protesting.

[00:07:00] They, uh, they start singing stupid songs.

[00:07:03] They get dressed up in various costumes and such.

[00:07:06] And, uh, they prevent legislative business from being completed.

[00:07:11] Then they started staging mass arrests, demanding to be arrested.

[00:07:15] Capital, uh, police would arrest them, but then of course they would all like walk.

[00:07:20] So it's not really like, is that really a brave act?

[00:07:23] It's like, you're not even really being arrested, you know?

[00:07:25] Like, so Reverend William Barber, who led the Momo, he parlayed this successfully into a national profile.

[00:07:35] He got all sorts of glowing reviews.

[00:07:38] Um, and people were so happy to have a man of faith, you know, leading the flock,

[00:07:44] preaching things that like I'd never heard were in the Bible, but whatever.

[00:07:48] He, um, he led his people and he gave them this, uh, this facade of religiosity.

[00:07:55] He gave them this, uh, uh, this patina of, uh, of morals, right?

[00:08:01] Like, oh, we're better than you.

[00:08:03] We're acting moral.

[00:08:04] We're the real Christians, right?

[00:08:06] He gave them all of this stuff.

[00:08:08] Meanwhile, they were arguing for, you know, late-term abortions and stuff, but whatever.

[00:08:12] So after Barber is elevated to a national profile, he gets poached.

[00:08:19] And, uh, he goes off and does his, uh, poor people's campaign and he hooks up into the Obama administration.

[00:08:26] He, he's in the nonprofit world and he's doing all that stuff.

[00:08:29] But now they've come back because democracy is on the line.

[00:08:35] So they're getting the band back together.

[00:08:37] Um, this is how WRAL reported it.

[00:08:40] The chanting echoed across the lawn of the state Capitol on Monday evening as about 300 protesters gathered to voice their opposition to Senate Bill 382,

[00:08:50] a controversial piece of legislation designed to provide aid to Western North Carolina.

[00:08:55] Okay.

[00:08:56] And their message was that the, the, the protesters was give us the money, but keep Democrats power.

[00:09:07] That's the message.

[00:09:10] Which is really Democrats message always.

[00:09:11] It's just like spend money and keep us in power, right?

[00:09:15] That it's very on brand.

[00:09:16] So they're saying, yes, we're, we're in favor of the hurricane relief money.

[00:09:21] How dare you Republicans, you know, make these other changes inside of a spending bill that we support because now we have to vote against it.

[00:09:29] And now you're going to run ads against us saying you voted against hurricane relief, hurricane Helene relief, which of course they will.

[00:09:36] That lawmakers do this all the time to one another.

[00:09:39] I prefer standalone bills, get everybody on the record on one particular issue.

[00:09:45] But I've lost that fight.

[00:09:46] I lost that fight years ago.

[00:09:48] So this is the way they do it.

[00:09:50] Omnibus spending bills.

[00:09:52] And they cram a whole bunch of other stuff into these spending bills.

[00:09:56] So that's the message from the momos.

[00:09:58] They want the money to go to Western North Carolina for hurricane relief and recovery.

[00:10:03] But they don't want the governor to lose any power.

[00:10:06] But here's the thing.

[00:10:07] There isn't any where in the Constitution that says that the governor has this power.

[00:10:15] So if he's going to try to sue, I guess we'll test it in court.

[00:10:19] But the Democrats now say that Republicans are trying to steal a Supreme Court election, as I mentioned in the last hour, right, and to destroy the democracy if Democrats don't get to control all the appointments on the board of elections, which is related to the stealing of the Supreme Court election.

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[00:11:44] Let's head over to the phones real quick and talk with JT.

[00:11:47] Hello, JT.

[00:11:49] Hey.

[00:11:50] Hey.

[00:11:51] Hey.

[00:11:52] I'm a career state employee.

[00:11:55] And in fact, I retired at the end of this month.

[00:11:57] And I've heard you talking a lot about House Bill 382.

[00:12:00] I mean, Senate Bill 382.

[00:12:02] There is, near the back of it, there's some significant legislation involving the North Carolina Highway Patrol and the North Carolina D&D License and Death Bureau.

[00:12:12] This is the oldest state law enforcement agency in the state.

[00:12:15] They're actually merging the North Carolina D&D License and Death Bureau into the Highway Patrol.

[00:12:20] And making it an independent...

[00:12:23] Yeah.

[00:12:23] And they're making Highway Patrol like an independent agency, I believe.

[00:12:30] Yes.

[00:12:30] Moving it out of DPS.

[00:12:32] And in fact, and I believe there's a part in there where the colonel is guaranteed to be able to stay in the next five and a half.

[00:12:37] The current colonel, who was appointed by Governor Cooper, would be allowed to stay for the next five and a half years.

[00:12:45] And a lot of people don't know about that.

[00:12:47] They're focusing on the lien and the other power stations and the governor.

[00:12:51] But that's a pretty significant change in two very old state law enforcement agencies.

[00:12:55] So what does that mean, practically speaking, for rank-and-file troopers?

[00:13:01] They're going to have an opportunity to actually go into investigations because that's the primary responsibility of the North Carolina D&D License and Death Bureau.

[00:13:09] They're more of an investigative wing as far as motor vehicles.

[00:13:13] So that will give troopers a chance to go into an investigative role, which is beneficial, I would think.

[00:13:21] So are you supportive of this change then?

[00:13:27] Yes, I am.

[00:13:30] I am.

[00:13:31] Do you see any potential downsides to it?

[00:13:37] Oh, I don't.

[00:13:38] I think it will help recruiting for both agencies.

[00:13:41] I don't know how I feel about the current governor not being allowed to appoint a colonel for the Highway Patrol.

[00:13:50] That's been pretty much tradition governors have had, whether it be Republican or Democrat.

[00:13:55] And like I said, the current colonel is an appointee of Cooper, so...

[00:13:59] Right.

[00:14:00] And do you remember the guy's name, who the current leader is?

[00:14:06] Um...

[00:14:06] Yeah, because there was a guy who was in charge of DPS that had a whole bunch of problems swirling around him, and I don't remember if he's still there or not.

[00:14:14] What?

[00:14:16] Um, oh, yes.

[00:14:17] No, it's not the current guy.

[00:14:19] It's not the guy you're talking about.

[00:14:20] I know who you're talking about.

[00:14:21] Right.

[00:14:21] It was, yeah, he had, like, he was running from media out in parking lots and stuff.

[00:14:25] It was not a good look.

[00:14:28] He ran from Nick Ochsner on the elevator.

[00:14:30] Right.

[00:14:31] Right.

[00:14:31] I remember that.

[00:14:33] Yeah.

[00:14:33] So he's not there anymore.

[00:14:34] The colonel, uh...

[00:14:36] Yeah.

[00:14:36] He's, uh...

[00:14:37] He's, uh...

[00:14:38] I would say, an improvement.

[00:14:39] Okay.

[00:14:41] All right.

[00:14:41] Yeah.

[00:14:41] And I haven't heard a whole lot about any problems, and that's usually a good sign, right?

[00:14:46] If you're not...

[00:14:48] If you're...

[00:14:48] If this guy is in the news a lot, it's probably not for anything good.

[00:14:52] So, um...

[00:14:53] Yeah.

[00:14:54] So, well, and look, I think there have been problems with this arrangement that lawmakers

[00:14:59] have been, you know, itching to fix for a while, and this was the vehicle that they decided

[00:15:06] to cram it into.

[00:15:08] So...

[00:15:09] Yes, sir.

[00:15:09] All right.

[00:15:10] Yeah.

[00:15:10] No, JT, I appreciate the call, sir.

[00:15:12] Thank you.

[00:15:12] And congratulations on your impending retirement.

[00:15:16] Yes, sir.

[00:15:16] And, uh...

[00:15:17] I just wanted to point that out.

[00:15:18] Yes, sir.

[00:15:18] One of those things in there.

[00:15:19] All right.

[00:15:20] Yeah.

[00:15:20] Take care.

[00:15:20] Stay safe.

[00:15:21] I appreciate the call.

[00:15:22] All right.

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[00:15:52] I have audio from...

[00:15:55] Sorry.

[00:15:56] I should probably play it sooner.

[00:15:58] I just...

[00:15:58] I get sidetracked.

[00:15:59] I go down these rabbit holes.

[00:16:00] I'm sorry.

[00:16:01] I apologize.

[00:16:03] I apologize.

[00:16:03] Not to the point where I would change my behavior, but I'm sorry.

[00:16:06] All right.

[00:16:07] So the chair of the North Carolina Democrat Party, Anderson Clayton is her name.

[00:16:15] And she held a press conference yesterday decrying the Republicans.

[00:16:22] Well, that's it.

[00:16:22] Just decrying the Republicans.

[00:16:25] And which...

[00:16:25] Look, that's her job, right?

[00:16:27] She's the chair of the Democrat Party.

[00:16:29] This is what she's going to do.

[00:16:30] And she is very, very upset at the Republicans because they are trying to get recounts in

[00:16:39] the Supreme Court race and they are trying to strip the governor of his appointment power

[00:16:46] on the state board of elections.

[00:16:48] Okay.

[00:16:49] So she says Republicans have been trying to stop Democrat voters from voting.

[00:16:54] And they've been doing this for a very long time.

[00:16:57] So what we're looking at is a Supreme Court and a state legislature that fundamentally together

[00:17:02] likes to disenfranchise voters in North Carolina.

[00:17:05] They have a history of it that is decades long in this state.

[00:17:08] And if you haven't been paying attention, and you are right now, you need to understand

[00:17:12] that this history is what we're looking at today.

[00:17:15] And this year, we had Senate Bill 747 and 749 that enabled the window of ballots that

[00:17:21] we had in the state.

[00:17:22] So if you were getting in your absentee ballot in North Carolina, you had a time frame after

[00:17:27] the election day to be able to do so as long as it was postmarked by the election.

[00:17:32] Republicans stripped that away from voters in North Carolina this year.

[00:17:35] They said it had to be back by 730 p.m. on election day.

[00:17:39] No!

[00:17:41] I can't have my vote counted three, four, five, six days after the election.

[00:17:46] How dare you?

[00:17:49] Like this, this is not an unreasonable thing.

[00:17:52] In fact, that's been the law for most of the time.

[00:17:55] They changed the law a couple of years ago, like a decade ago, and the Republicans just

[00:18:00] changed it back.

[00:18:02] That law has changed.

[00:18:04] All they're saying is that if you're voting absentee, the ballot has to be in the elections

[00:18:09] office by the close of polling.

[00:18:14] Like when everybody else's ballots have to be in by.

[00:18:17] You don't get special treatment.

[00:18:21] Well, but I voted with, so that means I want to vote at, like, what if I want to vote absentee

[00:18:25] and I want to wait till 630 p.m. on election day before I fill out my, my ballot?

[00:18:31] Would you like me to fill it out for you too?

[00:18:34] Do you need help writing your signature?

[00:18:36] Do you need me to, to rub your shoulders?

[00:18:38] Maybe a foot massage as you vote or something?

[00:18:39] Like at some point, people have to be responsible for voting themselves, you know?

[00:18:45] Like, come on.

[00:18:47] That which is achieved or attained too easily is esteemed too lightly.

[00:18:55] If, if we're talking about the sanctity of the vote, what guys, you need to start acting

[00:19:00] like it.

[00:19:01] There has to be some level of responsibility for people.

[00:19:06] Anyway, that, I mean, that's, that's sort of just a tangential argument.

[00:19:09] The point here is that decades, she said, the GOP has only been in control since 2011.

[00:19:17] So 13 years.

[00:19:20] For decades, Republicans have been doing this and this, and the Supreme Court, which by

[00:19:24] the way, I guess the whole thing, you know, undermine confidence in the court.

[00:19:27] I guess that's out the window now too.

[00:19:28] See, it's only undermining confidence in the court when Republicans rule certain ways.

[00:19:33] That's it.

[00:19:34] If Republicans make up the court or they give rulings that are not in favor by Democrats,

[00:19:41] then, then that undermines confidence in the court.

[00:19:44] There isn't anything.

[00:19:46] It's just like their definition of a fair map.

[00:19:49] A fair map to Democrats is a map that favors Democrats.

[00:19:55] That's a fair map.

[00:19:56] Oh, by the way, completely unrelated, but not really the census.

[00:20:01] Have you heard this?

[00:20:02] They've run analysis.

[00:20:03] Now there's a report that came out about the census count of 2020.

[00:20:08] Yeah, they, they over counted Democrat states and under counted Republican states, which means

[00:20:15] what, which means that the apportionment of our congressional seats was messed up in

[00:20:21] like, I think a dozen or so states.

[00:20:24] And what that meant and what it means now is that Republicans should have somewhere in the

[00:20:32] neighborhood of about three or four or five additional seats and Democrats should have

[00:20:37] three or four or five fewer.

[00:20:39] Not hearing a lot about that though.

[00:20:41] Problem with the census count and it all, it, it, like of the 10 states, was it the top 10

[00:20:50] states of over counts?

[00:20:51] Like nine of them were Democrat and of the top 10 states with under counts, nine of them

[00:20:56] were Republicans, Republican dominated states.

[00:21:00] So no, this hasn't been decades and no changing the absentee deadline to election day is not

[00:21:08] suppression.

[00:21:10] It's not disenfranchisement.

[00:21:12] It's actually a reversion to the mean.

[00:21:14] Most states actually make you have your ballots back by then.

[00:21:19] She then channeled her inner Southern preacher.

[00:21:22] Even through these attacks from Republicans on the voters in North Carolina, Justice Allison

[00:21:28] Riggs still holds this seat by 733 votes.

[00:21:32] Everybody.

[00:21:33] Okay.

[00:21:33] Hang on.

[00:21:34] Uh, just a, it's just a free piece of advice from a broadcast professional.

[00:21:40] Don't hit the table while you're talking.

[00:21:43] It's very annoying to the listener.

[00:21:45] Okay.

[00:21:46] Statewide recount confirmed what North Carolinians already know that justice wigs rock justice

[00:21:52] rigs want her seat and will keep her spot on the North Carolina Supreme court.

[00:21:56] But if you don't believe right now that Republicans will do everything they can to strip this win

[00:22:03] from us, you haven't been paying attention again to history in the state of North Carolina.

[00:22:10] Jefferson Griffin and the NC GOP truly want people to somehow believe that out of all the

[00:22:15] other election results in this state, this is the only one that's not legitimate.

[00:22:20] North Carolina is a 50, 50 state.

[00:22:23] Okay.

[00:22:23] That's not actually what they're saying.

[00:22:26] He's challenging his race because that's all they're allowed to challenge.

[00:22:32] See, that's how that works.

[00:22:34] They're not making any kind of representations about any other results because they're not

[00:22:39] allowed to basically.

[00:22:40] It's like a process deal, right?

[00:22:42] You can't, they can't be filing these challenges against races that he wasn't in.

[00:22:47] You got to have standing to bring the case and he's not a candidate in those other races.

[00:22:52] So he has no standing to bring those complaints.

[00:22:55] See, that's how that works.

[00:22:57] I'm not sure if she knew that or not going in, although she did have a lawyer standing

[00:23:01] right next to her who was supposedly there to advise them on all of the intricacies of

[00:23:05] the law.

[00:23:05] I guess they just missed that part.

[00:23:06] We're known for having split tickets.

[00:23:08] I can admit that the Republicans won the presidential election and five of these council of state

[00:23:13] races.

[00:23:13] But I can also admit that our party won the other five council of state races, including

[00:23:19] the governor's office.

[00:23:20] That's not hard for me to admit because that's the reality and that is the truth of this.

[00:23:24] Now, Jefferson Griffin needs to admit his truth.

[00:23:27] He lost the Supreme Court race to Justice Allison Riggs.

[00:23:31] I have been to the mountaintop.

[00:23:33] That's where she's getting fired up for democracy.

[00:23:41] Message from Susan, who says, listening to the Democrat Party leader in North Carolina

[00:23:45] is reminiscent of angry Joe Biden.

[00:23:48] She's way too young to be that to be in that much of a bad mood.

[00:23:52] And no matter how much she slams the table or screams at us, most of us aren't going to

[00:23:57] buy what she is selling, a big pack of lies.

[00:24:01] She does give off a certain old man yells at sky kind of vibe.

[00:24:09] She then mentions that 2020, this is Anderson Clayton, the North Carolina Democratic Party

[00:24:16] chair at a press conference, ripping into Republicans for wanting recounts and questioning the North

[00:24:23] Carolina state Supreme Court justice race results.

[00:24:28] And which, by the way, the Republican candidate there is well within the law and his rights

[00:24:33] to request the recounts and to file the challenges and complaints.

[00:24:36] This this is the process.

[00:24:41] And if you short circuit these processes or you say that people aren't supposed to do this,

[00:24:46] then why have the law in the first place?

[00:24:48] But also, aren't you the one undermining confidence in the elections?

[00:24:53] So.

[00:24:55] She then compares this recount effort to the recount effort that the Democrats had run in another

[00:25:04] Supreme Court race four years ago between Sherry Beasley and Paul Newby.

[00:25:09] Let me remind you that Chief Justice Paul Newby won his race by 401 votes and Justice Riggs

[00:25:15] keeps her seat by 733.

[00:25:18] Her victory is decisive, especially compared to Chief Justice Newby's margin in 2020.

[00:25:24] The only difference is that Justice Riggs is a Democrat and they don't want her to remain

[00:25:29] in that seat.

[00:25:30] This also has implications for our state legislative races in North Carolina.

[00:25:35] The voters, even under those gerrymandered maps that were given back to us by this Supreme

[00:25:40] Court, not voted to break a Republican supermajority.

[00:25:44] Their votes deserve to be respected.

[00:25:47] Instead of challenging 60,000 voters with baseless claims, Jefferson Griffin needs to do the right

[00:25:53] and honorable thing and concede now.

[00:25:56] Sorry.

[00:25:57] All right.

[00:25:57] I am not sure what happened to the microphone.

[00:25:59] You could hear a whole bunch of table banging going on there.

[00:26:03] I don't know if it's related.

[00:26:05] Not mentioned Beasley tried to count votes without postmarks and toss out ballots that

[00:26:09] weren't Republicans.

[00:26:11] She then screamed that this is all sinister and a threat to the democracy.

[00:26:15] You know, somebody yesterday, they looked at me and I'll be honest with you, it was a reporter

[00:26:19] that looked at me and said, I don't believe at all that this could possibly happen.

[00:26:24] I don't believe that somebody could steal this election.

[00:26:26] I don't believe that Jefferson Griffin could challenge these voters and could wipe away

[00:26:30] these 60,000.

[00:26:31] And I was like, what is happening right now in our state legislature?

[00:26:36] Senate Bill 382.

[00:26:38] We are watching Republicans in our state legislature strip power away from people that are going

[00:26:44] into office next year because they are Democrats.

[00:26:47] Much like Democrats did three different times to Republican governors.

[00:26:51] Just thought I'd throw that in there.

[00:26:53] Our attorney general is under the threat of not being able to charge or to challenge any

[00:26:58] single law for unconstitutionality that comes out of this general assembly right now.

[00:27:03] Are you serious?

[00:27:04] Are you seriously thinking that they would not be this manipulative and this malicious with

[00:27:10] the people and the power that they hold right now in this state?

[00:27:14] So do I have fear?

[00:27:15] Absolutely.

[00:27:16] Are we going to do everything in our power to protect these voters and to protect the

[00:27:21] democracy that we currently still have, even when we have two branches of government

[00:27:26] right now that are using their power unconstitutionally, in my opinion?

[00:27:30] Yes.

[00:27:30] Hmm.

[00:27:32] Hmm.

[00:27:32] So we still do have the democracy.

[00:27:34] Oh, thank goodness.

[00:27:36] I mean, because it's been on life support for like eight years now.

[00:27:38] I'm just, I'm wondering, it's like the walls are closing in on Trump and I always wonder

[00:27:41] how big is this room that the walls haven't ever squashed him yet?

[00:27:46] Right?

[00:27:48] Like they're really far away and they move very, very slowly and that's why they never squish

[00:27:52] him.

[00:27:53] So my favorite comment though was at the very end, her farewell at the end of the press conference.

[00:28:00] Thank you all for being here, everybody.

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[00:28:04] I love my members of the press.

[00:28:07] My members of the press.

[00:28:09] Oh, that's so true.

[00:28:11] All right.

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