North Carolina’s legislative leaders are more than three-and one-half months late in passing a state budget because the Republican leadership cannot agree. Teachers and state employees aren’t getting pay raises, thousands of our citizens don’t have the assurance of health insurance because lawmakers cannot resolve differences over Medicaid , DMV clients aren’t getting faster service, disaster victims aren’t getting help and the list of other important stalled tasks grows, all because the 170 folks we elected to represent us in “the people’s assembly” can’t put their own agendas aside in order to do what is best for all of us.

But they can apparently agree on the need to re-stack the deck on congressional districts in our state. At President Trump’s urging they want to draw new district ma

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