North Carolina Passes 3 Anti-Trans Laws In One Day, Overriding Vetoes ( www.erininthemorning.com )
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/4580386
From the article, my emphasis added:
“Bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community remained stagnant for the initial months of North Carolina’s legislative cycle. However, the landscape shifted when Democratic Representative Tricia Cotham, elected from a district which voted for her,** a Democrat, by +19points, switched to the Republican party**. This gave the GOP the crucial 72 votes required to override a governor’s veto. Subsequently, these bills were promptly slated for hearings and aggressively advanced by the state’s Republican leadership.”
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