North Carolina’s new $30 billion state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R). The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations — or Gov Ops for sh...
In the event that Gov Ops searches a person’s home, these rules mean that the person 1) must keep the entry a secret, 2) cannot seek outside help (unless necessary for fulfilling the request, the law says), and 3) could face criminal charges if Gov Ops deems them uncooperative.
This is a blatant violation of multiple constitutional rights. No wonder they want it kept secret, they're building the Gestapo. They're dismantling American liberty in favor of over fascism.
How can Republicans even pretend to be the party of "small government" and then create an investigative unit that has virtually unlimited power and if you even say anything to anybody then you'll get fired. This is an incredibly disturbing power grab by Republicans in NC. I suspect other states will follow if NC can get away with it.
Because, as I’m sure we all know by now, ‘small government’ means ‘only a small number of people allowed to participate (and they can only be rich white ‘Christian’ men)’.
A third provision will allow legislators to “determine…whether a record is a public record.” Legislators can now decide to “retain, destroy, sell, loan, or otherwise dispose of'' their documents.
Sell?? Oh come on they aren't even trying to pretend
If you work at any public university in North Carolina, start working on an exit plan. Though the wording of "indirect" public funds is so broad there's not much this wouldn't extend to in some way.