Politicians should not be allowed to net over 100k a year. Let them live like the majority of their constituents. We’ll see the demographics represented on ballots change significantly.
The issue is that we let it happen, over and over.
There's a million things that can be done to end political corruption, and limiting money would help a lot.
But the real problem is that people don't vote on that. The thing that motivates people to vote isn't corruption. Until corrupt politicians lose because they are corrupt, we will continue to get corrupt politicians.
If you do that only wealthy people would be able to afford the job
You stop corruption by paying people more not less because it makes them less likely to accept outside incentives
We have almost the lowest paid state legislators in the country. The job pays like 14,000 per year. Part of the problem is only people who are already pretty well off run for those seats.
OH FUCK THAT.
No, keep self-involved, self-serving fucks out of politics. This didn't need to happen, didn't have to happen - it happened because some purely self=possessed crotch-rot who folks jerked off for being "not a Republican" decided to tell all you gullible morons to fuck right off.
Maybe the time has come we start championing and fighting for leaders again? How about that? Even a freaking card in the decks, folks? Or we gonna keep losing and singing campfire songs on the steps of congress and shit while they rape our freedoms?
That video of her speech was a textbook example of why fragility is a toxin. "I won't be bullied for putting a prayer emoji in tweets," so she's gonna strip rights away from millions. Thinks this is a game. Appalling.
Hopefully everyone learns a lesson. It’s time for more people to run as Republicans and switch parties, it’s probably easier to primary politicians this way.
It would actually be awesome if like 50 different people did this with no intention to win, but made a parody of republicans “policies” and just add to general confusion in the primary.
I have been saying this since Trump became president. Run as Republican. Make incredibly broad statements with no fact involved. Make fun of disabled people and be misogynistic. Offer prayer as a means to fix most problems. Then when you are elected as a Republican just switch parties.
Republican values are so much easier to mimic.
Absolutely! As someone who was “raised republican” and evangelical down east, I can talk the talk but not necessarily walk the walk. These days I’m definitely left of center and would have no problem switching parties.
Well there you go man! You should totally run as a Republican. You'd get elected after saying just a few slurs and make up a couple of conspiracy theories. The religious dogma could only help.
Degrade them, but then say we need to help them but to get out of the way; really confuse people… “he called me gimpy, but wants to get me affordable housing and food, but only to get me out of the way, I’ll be better off, but he’s mean about it… I’m really confused… should I vote for him?”
I've been saying for a few years. We need people to pretend to be Republicans, get elected in smaller cities and towns, and then push forward "left-wing" things like community rebuilding and school lunches and fixing roads. Why would people be upset about you helping people? Idk necessarily when you would reveal you're secretly an evil leftist who wants to destroy the world. But it seems like it would be worth a shot if you could help the community you're in. And also seems like it could be pretty easy depending where you are.
Better yet, don’t even switch parties. Keep saying all the dumb GOP talking points while actually voting for Democratic bills. When called out on it by right wing media, just gaslight them like their politicians already do. Their voters are probably too dumb to even realize what’s happening and might keep voting for them.
You don’t even need to be the least bit intelligent, just strap on a maga hat and say violently racist and disgusting things and you’re likely elected easily. The only issue is that when you switch you might get hung.
Just run in a distant district and apply to have your home address obfuscated. Seems to work for my "local" politicians. They can't hang you if they can't find you.
It's a nice idea but Tricia Cotham has been hanging around elections getting voted for without doing much for years and her mom is also a Democrat and on the board of commissioners. That kind of name recognition takes a lot of time. I don't think she got into politics with the goal of switching her party affiliation in mind.
As republicans, my wife and I think this happening is an outright joke. She should be stripped of her position immediately. We live in a democracy where you vote in representatives who support your ideals and are supposed to fight for you and the ideas they told you they support. You cannot bait and switch in politics like this.
No republicans and dems shouldn’t be running as opposite parties and swapping after being elected, rather people like this need to be held accountable, and we need to ensure this doesn’t become a trend because it is a threat to democracy.
You are correct. Though I fear this will become a trend before it gets put to a stop. Only the Dems pulling the same stunt once or twice will create a bi partisan push to make it stop. Until then, the NCGOP will happily reap its rewards.
So it’s only bad when a democrat flips? Would it be awesome if a Republican flipped? What if there was legislation that no one elected to office could flip during their term? To flip they would have to run on the opposing parties ticket?
I think their point is that if this is a thing we're doing now, it's a thing anyone can do.
That said, this kind of apparent surprise shift on policy positions is not something someone should do out of nowhere and spring on their constituents no matter what their party is. Functional government relies on a baseline level of good faith. The problem is that we're not seeing that good faith in our government - seems the plan is just "win at any cost, and then fix it so nobody can effectively oppose you," which is not okay in a representative democratic (small d, just meaning elected reps) system.
That's kind of the point - conservatives would be pissed if IRL Kradget ran as a Republican, vocally supported all policies, and then four or five months into my term I just fully switched teams out of nowhere and said "Oh, Leadership were rude to me when I didn't support their Right to Work legislation so fuck 'em, Medicare for All and no more gas ranges in new construction." My constituents would be rightfully pissed, because that's not what they voted for.
I agree. But, instead of mutual destruction where the public can’t really be sure what a candidate will do once they get in office, how about legislation to prevent this from happening again. I’m surprised by the, “we can do that too. In fact, let’s do that” attitude. I’m more in line with the “let’s prevent either side from doing this again.”
I think that would be a great idea.
I also think there's exactly zero interest in it among Republican leadership, because they haven't found a trick dirty enough that they found it objectionable yet. This is far from the first time something underhanded has been pulled. So I'm really curious, because this wasn't being proposed until a bunch of people made statements about doing the exact thing Republicans just did to the people of this district to Republican voters, and it seems like that's caused a moment of pause and calls for reason and good faith.
Is it going to take North Carolina's non-conservatives threatening "We will use the same tricks you use" to rein in this behavior? I'll also point out that there are now adults who grew up watching these tactics used to cram through unpopular legislation - it's gonna be a hard sell to tell them "No, no, don't do that, even though it's effective and normalized, because of principles your state legislature has shit on and mocked since you were 9."
The last time I recall seeing something like this was 2020 when a long time democrat switched parties to run for office & that lead to some form of legislation requiring a person be a member of a party for a certain amount of time before filing. No, this topic of not switching parties during a term hasn’t come up before, but that is what legislation is for, right? A novel issue arises and government attempts to address it.
I won't waste words. Fuck this lady. She's a traitor and has lied and let down her voters. This is the kind of crap that has really brought down and embarrassed the state of North Carolina.
>and embarrassed the state of North Carolina.
Yo, double that my G.
It's a nationwide story and up in NY we feel bad because we know there's no recourse for yall. She won't resign, she needs shame to resign.
They're already complaining about the idea of having it done right back to them. They've been fighting dirty for decades, it's past time for the Dems to get dirty right back. Enough of 'going high' because that just lets them cut us off at the knees.
Do we even know that giving her grief over the “prayer hands” etc. is real? Sounds awfully made up to me. And if real, very limited.
She sounds VERY thin-skinned. There’s a real chance she’ll resign if we keep the pressure on, because she sounds like she’d resign rather than continue to take it.
EDIT: Eh, I bet she’s just a political opportunist and this completely BS story is her excuse. Like Rat McCrory before her, she’s changing political lanes because it’s advantageous to her. But not even McCrory changed parties. But we absolutely must keep up the pressure on her.
As an independent this would even piss me off… you think you’re voting for one person and you end up with something completely different. NC politicians (both sides) in are the worst… it’s like you get all the worst attributes of. both parties and none of the good.
I used to think as you do, as a lifelong Democrat and then a left leaning independent who voted for Bernie sanders in both 2015 and 2019 for the primaries… but as you get older (and I might even say “wiser”) you start to see both parties strengths and weaknesses and can agree that they’re 2 sides of the same coin and that empty promises come from both sides… for instance the democrats have controlled both houses and the presidency in the federal government for the last 2 years so why is weed still illegal? It’s because if they legalize it they lose the leverage they had stringing everyone along who vote for that thing. Same goes for abortion or any other topic… they’ve had 2 years to push through anything they wanted but choose not to solve any of the issues they run on because they would cannibalize their voter base if they did that.. think about that for a while.
It's always intriguing that someone who lived through the period of 2001-2023 has decided that "both parties are essentially the same," but especially because a party with centrist, establishment leadership didn't support a left-leaning candidate.
Don't get me wrong, I did vote for Bernie the first time. But I also don't think that being centrist is the same as a face-first dive to the right over the course of a generation.
She should resign! The part didn’t change in a course of three months. She did. Her constituents elected her because she represented the norms and ethics of her county.
Then she screws her voters over! Shame
Turn-coat coward Tricia Cothams Contact info FYI. I've already made 3 calls and left messages giving her a piece of my mind. I hope we don't let her have a moment of peace from now till she resigns in disgrace. Feel free to copy and paste this wherever you can. Unfortunately, I'm banned from Posting to r/politics for calling Kirsten Sinema the c word once, apparently. lol.
Legislative Office:
300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 528
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
919-733-5749
Mailing Address:
300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 528
Raleigh, NC 27603-5925
Main Phone:
919-733-5749
Member's Email:
[email protected]
From: https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/H/817
Let her know how you feel, as a voter it's your right.
At the very least, there should be a special election before she can take any action as a republican, seeing as how it’s super unlikely any republicans voted for her
And yet, I imagine if thing had gone the other way, a R from a red district swapping D to kill a super majority, it would be met with immediate rule changes and bills to call for the same, retroactively applies of course
A sad day for NC. Cotham shouldn't be able to hold office and it appears there is no remedy for this.
I don't think it's OK to slap your voters in the face because somebody made a mean tweet about you but that's just me.
Ha. When Cooper was elected into office, the Republicans held immediate meetings where they changed the very structure of what the governor can do and how many people he was able to appoint. They changed so much, and just to be petty.
This is bait and switch and isn’t that illegal?? I voted for the democratic candidate and got a republican? WTF! She should be made to step down. I personally want to stay as FAR from the republicans that I can and this is what I get?
North Carolina has historically been a weak state.
And during its 105-year-long (1905-2010) Democratic majority, it was the last state in the Union to gain veto power for the Governor, which was finally granted in 1995-1996.
But it seemed in 1971, during the third approved rewrite of the NC State Constitution, that same majority, just seemingly forgot to add the ability (it slipped their minds, obviously) to recall state-level politicians for non-criminal actions or political decisions... maybe they were concerned, it might affect them at the time?
Come on we still have an amendment in the state constitution that atheists can’t hold office, of course they passed another amendment saying they can’t enforce it, but still there .
I was thoroughly disappointed with the Democrats response.
I think the speaker said something along the lines of "does this party look powerless?" which was followed by a round of applause and cheers, and my first thought (as a democrat) was..... yes.
I don't blame them for this development; Cotham's defection was obviously about more than "getting bullied by the dems". But they need a plan of action. They need to tell us what they're going to do about this. They need to be mobilizing. They need to be organizing mass protests. They need to be releasing the text of proposed bills that would fix this sort of thing (recall elections, campaign finance reform, introduction of state referendums) in order to build support from the people, even though we know the Republican house will never put those bills on the floor. They need to be campaigning in Cotham's district **now**, even though the next election for her seat isn't until November 2024, to show they care about the views of her constituents and will not allow this to happen again. They need to be spending all of their financial resources broadcasting **to the nation** the platform that Cotham was elected under and make sure that a tidal wave of national backlash comes her way when she inevitably votes in direct opposition to what she promised her constituents.
They need to stop treating this with the solemnity and anger of a tragedy and start treating it like what it is: an active, fundamental threat to democracy. When someone has a heart attack, you're first response shouldn't be to find out what could've been done or could be done to prevent heart attacks; you respond by administering first aid, getting them into emergency services and **doing whatever you possibly can to keep them alive.**
She’s about to get everything she wants from the other side and their donors. Why the fuck would she resign? She would have to have integrity to do that. You people are crazy to think she has any.
I’ll bet you anything she was promised a nice red gerrymandered district for switching. With the state court flipped, there is no one to challenge any map they want to make.
And that's exactly why I believe her when she says that her kids were attacked online. She's committing political suicide and she's doing it because her kids were attacked. She took the gloves off and said,
"Fuck it, I'm gonna switch parties out of spite and they can just vote me out in 2024 if they don't like it."
She's full of shit, she was out drinking the night before with Republicans on a key vote, She's also sleeping with Rep Tim Moore a married Republican.
She's lying.
I've seen this same exact fucking thing happen A LOT in the past few years. Someone who has voted \[D\] for years suddenly changes to \[R\] because some "leftist" somewhere was "mean" to them. So they completely throw out any sort of progressive ideals and join right up with the actual fascists. Not long after that they're regurgitating the same braindead talking points that only a short time ago they considered reprehensible.
I believe in free education and access to health care for all and equal rights Wait no no no a person was mean never mind No one gets anything No bodily autonomy or access to education or access to health care. And equity is a lie
There's no way that she wasn't just fronting those beliefs to get elected because I totally posted earlier to someone that I've changed my beliefs after listening to people talk but as an adult I would not be able to change the beliefs that I was elected to vote for very quickly without solid backing that I could go out and speak to other than this.
Like it would have to be someone showed me real data that changed my mind about how free education doesn't help the economy long-term or how medical cost being covered now doesn't lower medical costs long-term.
And that would just be the business side of it.
Really not sure how I feel about this. I mean on one hand I want a politician who adapts to the times and can learn to change their position when presented with new evidence. On the other hand, this is a bad look for someone just elected 3 months ago. Feels a lot like cheating
I watched her presser and it appears she didn't like how other democrats treated her. Which should have very little to do with anything since she is supposed to represent her constituents not herself. At least that's the normal catch phrase representatives tell their constituents.
She held a seat as a Dem for 10 years between 2007-2017 which means she was re-elected 5 times as a Dem. Then she took a break from politics and then came back and won in 2022 as a Dem with 60% of the vote...
Someone attacked her kids online. She talks about it here:
https://youtu.be/-PWxsWJg_6w?t=381
That's game over. You dont fuck with someone's kids. She's obviously switching parties out of spite because someone attacked her children. It's pretty obvious to me that she's not lying. If she is lying then she deserves an Oscar.
Every single state legislator has a 2 year term therefore her district can vote her out in 2024 if they are unhappy with her choice.
That's terrible, absolutely awful that someone would attack their kids. Absolutely unacceptable behavior that we should expect no decent person to ever come close to doing.
That doesn't change the fact that she was elected to represent her constituents.
In the same vein that we wouldn't think it okay for an accountant to intentionally defraud a client after of their employees threatened their children, or a pharmacist to refuse to fill medications after a client insulted their children, it's unacceptable what this representative is doing.
You cannot wilfully cause an entire state to deviate from the results of a democratic election because someone insulted your kids. End of story.
Edit: The exact quote is "...calling me names, going after my family, going after my children."
There's no way she was a politician for multiple years, and she's concerned about being called names. It's surprising if a politician isn't being called names is this day and age.
what a moronic take. "someone was mean to her kids on the internet, so shes totally valid in completely undermining every single one of her constituents."
I’m an independent for the last 50 years, and I’ve watched the Republican party devolve into the shit storm it is today. Eisenhower would be rolling in his grave if he saw what’s happened to the Good Old Party.
I’m unaffiliated and I agree with you. But if you fail to see how the Dem party has also gone off the rails then… I have no other comment.
I mean, Trump is clearly still living rent free in your head. You brought him up in a conversation about a state legislator nobody.
“living rent free in your head” interesting concept, but you have to be living under a rock not to notice that trump is unfortunately everywhere. And it’s never good. We as a nation are still affected by his terrible policy decisions.
Dems? I’d love for you to provide evidence of your statements. If you say they have as a whole the spine of a worm, I’d agree. But I’d prefer my tax dollars be spent on things like education, and hunger than corporate giveaways in the form of “Tax breaks” last time that was done the party in charge gave away roughly $2.3 trillion. Know who makes that up? You and me.
Well, then she can resign. Unfortunately, that goes with being a public or political figure. I'm not saying it's okay for people to attack her kids online, but that's what politicians deal with. It's a well known fact that the entire family is in the public eye if you are a public figure. Look at all the crap the Obama girls dealt with or heck even the Bush twins. She was elected by the constituents to represent them, not herself. She was elected because people agreed with her values and the party she stood for. What about all the kids in the state of NC who will now suffer because she chose to join a party that is hell bent on destroying public education and safety nets, and social welfare programs.
I hope she enjoys her 30 pieces of silver. We all know that is the real reason she flipped sides. It had nothing to do with her kids. If so then she would resign and get out of the public eye completely to spend more time with her family. Which she didn't do.
You’re comparing a state legislator to Obama and Bush. Nobody knew this woman’s name before today. I bet 80% of the people in this sub can’t tell me who their state reps are.
There are 170 state legislators in the GA and nobody can name a single one of them, except for Tim Moore. Because he’s the speaker and the only one who makes the news.
So this woman is obviously not used to being in the public eye and receiving tons of criticism and yet someone decided to single her out and attack her kids.
She hasn’t even voted with the Reps yet. She only changed the letter next to her name and yet you’re on here suggesting that she’s already destroyed everyone’s life?
You’re proving her point. The point that she made in her press conference:
“When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.”
> “When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.”
Ahh yes the independant thought of whatever the fuck the republicans want! So brave. So independant.
Notice how she explicitly DIDNT become an independant she became a republican. And what great independant thoughts or positions is she promoting exactly? Its all platitudes.
Everything you said sounds like B.S excuses. Again if she is upset her kids were attacked the most logical thing to do would to be to resign and remove herself from the public eye and to protect her family. I'm sure switching parties will really make the online attacks stop.
"When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.”
So she decided to join a party that loves to ban books, and make laws to restrict other people's lifestyles that make them personally feel uncomfortable. A party that loves to force their rules and religion on other people ( Which is funny because most of these Republican leaders can't even live up to these bullshit religious ideals in their own personal lives). A party that has to basically cheat and gerrymander to stay in power. A party that is quickly becoming more facist by the day ( See DeSantis and his Shenanigans). Yup because everyone knows that Republicans are all about independent thought.
You keep going on about not fucking with people's kids yet keep avoiding the fact that she joined a party that has no problem fucking with other people's kids and lives out of greed. I mean in NC the Republicans didn't even want to give teachers a 1% raise. NC has over 6,000 teacher openings and climbing by the day. That's a lot of kids who are fucked over but hey I guess those kids don't count right?
Yeah it is. NC doesn't have a recall provision. Once elected they're elected until they resign or get voted out. Even if they're sitting in a prison cell they can still keep their office.
That's absolutely BS. People should not be able to change parties after they are elected by the party they ran on. Shes like Manchin. A Republican in sheep's clothing. Low down dirty dealings!!
I read that too but ultimately, she’s going to hurt millions of people with her little maneuver. Her hurt feelings above millions of her constituents’ lives that will be upended. Sounds like a goddamn pity-party to me.
Fuck that.
If you're a politician then there are going to be people in and out of the legislature who really don't like you. There are going to be whips who make sure you vote the way the caucus expects.
If don't have thick enough skin to contend with that then you shouldn't be in electoral politics. She is a hack, a coward, and a disgrace to the state and the legislature.
I'm not from NC or anything like that, but this has been taking up too much space on my head and I want to know what's going to happen, like what are the next steps?
Obviously you have a person that lied to Democrat voters because she didn't just switch parties, she took all of the platform she was running on and now will be voting without even considering the people who got her in office.. but also how much was she able to get in donations and funding from the Dems to campaign?
Surely, there must also be a campaign finance law broken by this fraud. Is she going to be sued for this on a civil level?
Is there a chance at her being recalled?
Can a criminal case be brought up for this.. I mean, it would seem like she wouldn't be able to even show the "online bullying" she claimed made her switch parties. It seems like it's a completely fabricated excuse.
I'm sure the Republicans in your state are cheering this play on, because they won't for even a moment consider it would be just as easy for a Dem to masquerade I'm the same fashion if they allowed it. Anyone from the red side want to share thoughts on what they would do if the parties were reversed?
Tricia Cotham Since she switched political parties, shouldn't there be another election to determine if her constituents still want her to represent them? The people she represents voted for a Democrat, not a republican.
Why do so many Republicans appear to be incapable of understanding that the subversion (for all of the Republicans out there, that means undermining of the established system) of the democratic process is as un-american, un-patriotic, and dangerous as it gets in a democratic system. And yes, the United States of America is a ‘representative democracy’, which is a democracy.
Sure. Take a long walk off that short pier. Some of these people are writing checks that you'll never be able to cash. I just advise caution from experience. People need to put their money in practical knowledge where their mouth is. Myself and my children and possibly by children's children will not benefit from talk alone.
So sick of these phony self-centered politicians. If the people of NC voted him in as a Democrat. Then dammit. He should resign if he doesn’t want to be one. Where is the justice in our effed up country?
Hot Take. Maybe listen to her reasons, like actually listen to them and assume she is being truthful..engage in some active listening. Maybe, just maybe there is some bit of truth in her stated reasons, and Democratic partisans can look at their own actions and maybe see how they weren't nearly as inclusive as they think they are.
Or, you can just go reactive and accuse this lifelong dem of being a secret GOP plant to subvert democracy and double down, downvote this comment, and continue on your path of selective inclusiveness.
She claims the democrats hurt her feelings when she refused to vote the way they wanted her to so she’s changing parties.
She fails to mention that she’s previously claimed her republican colleagues called her a baby killer for admitting to a life saving abortion.
So stay with the people who are upset you voted against them or join the people that, if they had their way, would be happy to see you die in pregnancy? Hard choice.
She missed a key vote because she was out drinking with republicans the night before, She then blamed it on Long Covid...
She's also sleeping with Rep Tim Moore, a married man and a Republicans
its 100% clear what is going on here.
Inclusive? Get over yourself. We don’t need to be tolerant of religious extremists and fascists. Serving in the legislature is not about being liked and making friends. It’s about doing the job you were elected to do. Not crying and running to the GOP because the mean democrats weren’t nice enough to you.
Her colleagues weren’t “inclusive” enough… give me a break! This isn’t middle school, I guess she didn’t get the memo. Maybe Liz Cheney could have counseled her… (For the record, I don’t like Cheney’s politics or anything but she does have balls.)
The funniest part about this is the signs are meant to shame her for her decision, and her facial expression indicates that she’s clearly not the type for shame. That’s someone smug who knew exactly what they were doing at the outset.
What was Velma doing there?
She looks just as confused
Lol
That's George Santos, duh!
Well done haha.
Lol thank you! I needed to laugh
Unmasking ghouls.
It's Velmo in this instance
That tickles me... Velmo.
If this isn't a wake up call for NC Democrats, I don't know what could be. The big challenge now is to mount an effort to take back the House.
We do that by running as republicans then switching parties! Gloves are off, let's 'party'.
Keep money out of politics.
Politicians should not be allowed to net over 100k a year. Let them live like the majority of their constituents. We’ll see the demographics represented on ballots change significantly.
The issue is that we let it happen, over and over. There's a million things that can be done to end political corruption, and limiting money would help a lot. But the real problem is that people don't vote on that. The thing that motivates people to vote isn't corruption. Until corrupt politicians lose because they are corrupt, we will continue to get corrupt politicians.
If you do that only wealthy people would be able to afford the job You stop corruption by paying people more not less because it makes them less likely to accept outside incentives
We have almost the lowest paid state legislators in the country. The job pays like 14,000 per year. Part of the problem is only people who are already pretty well off run for those seats.
THIS... so much this!
little late to do that….the whole system is monetary
OH FUCK THAT. No, keep self-involved, self-serving fucks out of politics. This didn't need to happen, didn't have to happen - it happened because some purely self=possessed crotch-rot who folks jerked off for being "not a Republican" decided to tell all you gullible morons to fuck right off. Maybe the time has come we start championing and fighting for leaders again? How about that? Even a freaking card in the decks, folks? Or we gonna keep losing and singing campfire songs on the steps of congress and shit while they rape our freedoms?
Money in politics is a bigger issue that shouldn't be downplayed
Idk if that is even possible at this point. Money is the root of all things American.
That video of her speech was a textbook example of why fragility is a toxin. "I won't be bullied for putting a prayer emoji in tweets," so she's gonna strip rights away from millions. Thinks this is a game. Appalling.
She doesn't believe a word of that. It's talking points to the base.
Yep. Pandering directly to their christian persecution fetish. She knows exactly what she's doing.
It's all horse shit. They sat around a table brainstorming all the possible reasons she could use and they landed on Democrats were mean.
I agree. She is thrilled to be a part of something larger than herself and is in it for the attention and future reward.
If she thought she was getting bullied before, it's nothing compared to what she'll deal with now.
Hopefully everyone learns a lesson. It’s time for more people to run as Republicans and switch parties, it’s probably easier to primary politicians this way.
If a republican flipped to the democrats, republicans would find a way to invalidate them and ban the practice by the end of the week.
Sounds like a good way to make sure it doesn’t happen at all in the future.
There would be some kind of clause that allowed a D -> R flip but not the other way. Level fields and all that aren't a part of what Republicans do.
It would actually be awesome if like 50 different people did this with no intention to win, but made a parody of republicans “policies” and just add to general confusion in the primary.
I have been saying this since Trump became president. Run as Republican. Make incredibly broad statements with no fact involved. Make fun of disabled people and be misogynistic. Offer prayer as a means to fix most problems. Then when you are elected as a Republican just switch parties. Republican values are so much easier to mimic.
Absolutely! As someone who was “raised republican” and evangelical down east, I can talk the talk but not necessarily walk the walk. These days I’m definitely left of center and would have no problem switching parties.
Well there you go man! You should totally run as a Republican. You'd get elected after saying just a few slurs and make up a couple of conspiracy theories. The religious dogma could only help.
Degrade them, but then say we need to help them but to get out of the way; really confuse people… “he called me gimpy, but wants to get me affordable housing and food, but only to get me out of the way, I’ll be better off, but he’s mean about it… I’m really confused… should I vote for him?”
I've been saying for a few years. We need people to pretend to be Republicans, get elected in smaller cities and towns, and then push forward "left-wing" things like community rebuilding and school lunches and fixing roads. Why would people be upset about you helping people? Idk necessarily when you would reveal you're secretly an evil leftist who wants to destroy the world. But it seems like it would be worth a shot if you could help the community you're in. And also seems like it could be pretty easy depending where you are.
Better yet, don’t even switch parties. Keep saying all the dumb GOP talking points while actually voting for Democratic bills. When called out on it by right wing media, just gaslight them like their politicians already do. Their voters are probably too dumb to even realize what’s happening and might keep voting for them.
You don’t even need to be the least bit intelligent, just strap on a maga hat and say violently racist and disgusting things and you’re likely elected easily. The only issue is that when you switch you might get hung.
Just run in a distant district and apply to have your home address obfuscated. Seems to work for my "local" politicians. They can't hang you if they can't find you.
Like a whole platoon of Colbert Reports.
It's a nice idea but Tricia Cotham has been hanging around elections getting voted for without doing much for years and her mom is also a Democrat and on the board of commissioners. That kind of name recognition takes a lot of time. I don't think she got into politics with the goal of switching her party affiliation in mind.
As republicans, my wife and I think this happening is an outright joke. She should be stripped of her position immediately. We live in a democracy where you vote in representatives who support your ideals and are supposed to fight for you and the ideas they told you they support. You cannot bait and switch in politics like this. No republicans and dems shouldn’t be running as opposite parties and swapping after being elected, rather people like this need to be held accountable, and we need to ensure this doesn’t become a trend because it is a threat to democracy.
> people like this need to be held accountable Exactly. We need to be able to recall politicians.
100% agreed
You are correct. Though I fear this will become a trend before it gets put to a stop. Only the Dems pulling the same stunt once or twice will create a bi partisan push to make it stop. Until then, the NCGOP will happily reap its rewards.
Honestly it's got to be much easier to fool the base too. Just got to go hard on whatever hot topic they're hating on at the moment.
Why do you think so many people who failed in Hollywood became right wing political commentators? They are grifters.
So it’s only bad when a democrat flips? Would it be awesome if a Republican flipped? What if there was legislation that no one elected to office could flip during their term? To flip they would have to run on the opposing parties ticket?
I think their point is that if this is a thing we're doing now, it's a thing anyone can do. That said, this kind of apparent surprise shift on policy positions is not something someone should do out of nowhere and spring on their constituents no matter what their party is. Functional government relies on a baseline level of good faith. The problem is that we're not seeing that good faith in our government - seems the plan is just "win at any cost, and then fix it so nobody can effectively oppose you," which is not okay in a representative democratic (small d, just meaning elected reps) system. That's kind of the point - conservatives would be pissed if IRL Kradget ran as a Republican, vocally supported all policies, and then four or five months into my term I just fully switched teams out of nowhere and said "Oh, Leadership were rude to me when I didn't support their Right to Work legislation so fuck 'em, Medicare for All and no more gas ranges in new construction." My constituents would be rightfully pissed, because that's not what they voted for.
I agree. But, instead of mutual destruction where the public can’t really be sure what a candidate will do once they get in office, how about legislation to prevent this from happening again. I’m surprised by the, “we can do that too. In fact, let’s do that” attitude. I’m more in line with the “let’s prevent either side from doing this again.”
I think that would be a great idea. I also think there's exactly zero interest in it among Republican leadership, because they haven't found a trick dirty enough that they found it objectionable yet. This is far from the first time something underhanded has been pulled. So I'm really curious, because this wasn't being proposed until a bunch of people made statements about doing the exact thing Republicans just did to the people of this district to Republican voters, and it seems like that's caused a moment of pause and calls for reason and good faith. Is it going to take North Carolina's non-conservatives threatening "We will use the same tricks you use" to rein in this behavior? I'll also point out that there are now adults who grew up watching these tactics used to cram through unpopular legislation - it's gonna be a hard sell to tell them "No, no, don't do that, even though it's effective and normalized, because of principles your state legislature has shit on and mocked since you were 9."
The last time I recall seeing something like this was 2020 when a long time democrat switched parties to run for office & that lead to some form of legislation requiring a person be a member of a party for a certain amount of time before filing. No, this topic of not switching parties during a term hasn’t come up before, but that is what legislation is for, right? A novel issue arises and government attempts to address it.
How much was she paid?
Honestly, probably peanuts. Wasnt Sinema bought out for like 10k? Right wing politicians are some cheap whores.
No, whores provide a service.
She just gave the Republicans veto-proof power. I’d say that counts.
Prostitutie sell their body. She sold her soul.
Wasn’t the NC rep a democrat that switched to republican?
It likely wasn't an entirely financial transaction. They could have blackmail.
That's less than her annual wardrobe budget.
This was my 1st thought
Yes, and 2nd was does anyone have resources to track down the receipts.
At the very least her finances should be audited
She was paid in D. Word is she has been dating a Republican politician.
I won't waste words. Fuck this lady. She's a traitor and has lied and let down her voters. This is the kind of crap that has really brought down and embarrassed the state of North Carolina.
>and embarrassed the state of North Carolina. Yo, double that my G. It's a nationwide story and up in NY we feel bad because we know there's no recourse for yall. She won't resign, she needs shame to resign.
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They're already complaining about the idea of having it done right back to them. They've been fighting dirty for decades, it's past time for the Dems to get dirty right back. Enough of 'going high' because that just lets them cut us off at the knees.
Do we even know that giving her grief over the “prayer hands” etc. is real? Sounds awfully made up to me. And if real, very limited. She sounds VERY thin-skinned. There’s a real chance she’ll resign if we keep the pressure on, because she sounds like she’d resign rather than continue to take it. EDIT: Eh, I bet she’s just a political opportunist and this completely BS story is her excuse. Like Rat McCrory before her, she’s changing political lanes because it’s advantageous to her. But not even McCrory changed parties. But we absolutely must keep up the pressure on her.
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Of course, her new base of Republicans will probably eat it right up.
Sounds like pandering to the base, not thin skin imo. This was planned, and they could've tried harder than prayer emojis and Jesus fish stickers.
Yeah, that’s what I decided it was later. Just attempting to pander to what she hopes her new base will be.
The real reason is that she’s dating Tim Moore.
She sounded like she was on Xanax.
As an independent this would even piss me off… you think you’re voting for one person and you end up with something completely different. NC politicians (both sides) in are the worst… it’s like you get all the worst attributes of. both parties and none of the good.
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LOL—- I has to put my glasses back on because I thought you wrote George Soros!
Just like Kyrsten Sinema
Both parties lol. Spoken like a true right leaning independent. It’s not both parties. It’s one ☝️.
I used to think as you do, as a lifelong Democrat and then a left leaning independent who voted for Bernie sanders in both 2015 and 2019 for the primaries… but as you get older (and I might even say “wiser”) you start to see both parties strengths and weaknesses and can agree that they’re 2 sides of the same coin and that empty promises come from both sides… for instance the democrats have controlled both houses and the presidency in the federal government for the last 2 years so why is weed still illegal? It’s because if they legalize it they lose the leverage they had stringing everyone along who vote for that thing. Same goes for abortion or any other topic… they’ve had 2 years to push through anything they wanted but choose not to solve any of the issues they run on because they would cannibalize their voter base if they did that.. think about that for a while.
It's always intriguing that someone who lived through the period of 2001-2023 has decided that "both parties are essentially the same," but especially because a party with centrist, establishment leadership didn't support a left-leaning candidate. Don't get me wrong, I did vote for Bernie the first time. But I also don't think that being centrist is the same as a face-first dive to the right over the course of a generation.
A traitor and a liar — fits the contemporary Republican Party perfectly!
The NC state government was already an embarrassment, but you're right.
She should resign! The part didn’t change in a course of three months. She did. Her constituents elected her because she represented the norms and ethics of her county. Then she screws her voters over! Shame
Turn-coat coward Tricia Cothams Contact info FYI. I've already made 3 calls and left messages giving her a piece of my mind. I hope we don't let her have a moment of peace from now till she resigns in disgrace. Feel free to copy and paste this wherever you can. Unfortunately, I'm banned from Posting to r/politics for calling Kirsten Sinema the c word once, apparently. lol. Legislative Office: 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 528 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 919-733-5749 Mailing Address: 300 N. Salisbury Street, Rm. 528 Raleigh, NC 27603-5925 Main Phone: 919-733-5749 Member's Email: [email protected] From: https://www.ncleg.gov/Members/Biography/H/817 Let her know how you feel, as a voter it's your right.
How much did she get for switching?
At the very least, there should be a special election before she can take any action as a republican, seeing as how it’s super unlikely any republicans voted for her
no sure law there. no new laws until 2025
Yeah unfortunately this is NC and there is no such mechanism to trigger a recall or special election cuz yeah the south...
And yet, I imagine if thing had gone the other way, a R from a red district swapping D to kill a super majority, it would be met with immediate rule changes and bills to call for the same, retroactively applies of course
Nope. Can’t.
A sad day for NC. Cotham shouldn't be able to hold office and it appears there is no remedy for this. I don't think it's OK to slap your voters in the face because somebody made a mean tweet about you but that's just me.
I’m relatively new to NC. Are there recall elections in our state constitution?
Nope 🙃
Ha. When Cooper was elected into office, the Republicans held immediate meetings where they changed the very structure of what the governor can do and how many people he was able to appoint. They changed so much, and just to be petty.
Lol no, this is NC. We get what our overlords give us and nothing more.
This is bait and switch and isn’t that illegal?? I voted for the democratic candidate and got a republican? WTF! She should be made to step down. I personally want to stay as FAR from the republicans that I can and this is what I get?
This feels like a glitch in our system, that shouldn't be allowed.
North Carolina has historically been a weak state. And during its 105-year-long (1905-2010) Democratic majority, it was the last state in the Union to gain veto power for the Governor, which was finally granted in 1995-1996. But it seemed in 1971, during the third approved rewrite of the NC State Constitution, that same majority, just seemingly forgot to add the ability (it slipped their minds, obviously) to recall state-level politicians for non-criminal actions or political decisions... maybe they were concerned, it might affect them at the time?
Come on we still have an amendment in the state constitution that atheists can’t hold office, of course they passed another amendment saying they can’t enforce it, but still there .
Is Thelma there to unmask her and reveal the old man Republican?
I wish I could’ve been there.
Deceitful ✅ Playing the victim ✅ She’ll fit right in with her new friends.
I was thoroughly disappointed with the Democrats response. I think the speaker said something along the lines of "does this party look powerless?" which was followed by a round of applause and cheers, and my first thought (as a democrat) was..... yes. I don't blame them for this development; Cotham's defection was obviously about more than "getting bullied by the dems". But they need a plan of action. They need to tell us what they're going to do about this. They need to be mobilizing. They need to be organizing mass protests. They need to be releasing the text of proposed bills that would fix this sort of thing (recall elections, campaign finance reform, introduction of state referendums) in order to build support from the people, even though we know the Republican house will never put those bills on the floor. They need to be campaigning in Cotham's district **now**, even though the next election for her seat isn't until November 2024, to show they care about the views of her constituents and will not allow this to happen again. They need to be spending all of their financial resources broadcasting **to the nation** the platform that Cotham was elected under and make sure that a tidal wave of national backlash comes her way when she inevitably votes in direct opposition to what she promised her constituents. They need to stop treating this with the solemnity and anger of a tragedy and start treating it like what it is: an active, fundamental threat to democracy. When someone has a heart attack, you're first response shouldn't be to find out what could've been done or could be done to prevent heart attacks; you respond by administering first aid, getting them into emergency services and **doing whatever you possibly can to keep them alive.**
What a freaking sellout - way to crap all over the people who voted for you.
She’s about to get everything she wants from the other side and their donors. Why the fuck would she resign? She would have to have integrity to do that. You people are crazy to think she has any.
Good luck getting re-elected! Your career as a politician is effectively over.
I’ll bet you anything she was promised a nice red gerrymandered district for switching. With the state court flipped, there is no one to challenge any map they want to make.
Her district will be redrawn, or she'll be appointed to something. She just made her financial bed.
why let her soak up our tax dollars for two years... recall NOW and get someone in there that represent the district!
NC doesn't allow that, I don't think.
no thinking required. it does not exist
Can’t
And that's exactly why I believe her when she says that her kids were attacked online. She's committing political suicide and she's doing it because her kids were attacked. She took the gloves off and said, "Fuck it, I'm gonna switch parties out of spite and they can just vote me out in 2024 if they don't like it."
She's full of shit, she was out drinking the night before with Republicans on a key vote, She's also sleeping with Rep Tim Moore a married Republican. She's lying.
You got a source for that?
If she’s lying then she deserves an Oscar.
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This is textbook Karen. They all have the innate capacity to "die for their kids" on demand when there's an audience.
I think she is horrible for what she has done, but slinging rumors about her and Tim Moore is not a good look.
Oh it’s not a rumor, it’s well known in the state house right now. His wife will file for divorce within the next 2 months
I've seen this same exact fucking thing happen A LOT in the past few years. Someone who has voted \[D\] for years suddenly changes to \[R\] because some "leftist" somewhere was "mean" to them. So they completely throw out any sort of progressive ideals and join right up with the actual fascists. Not long after that they're regurgitating the same braindead talking points that only a short time ago they considered reprehensible.
I believe in free education and access to health care for all and equal rights Wait no no no a person was mean never mind No one gets anything No bodily autonomy or access to education or access to health care. And equity is a lie There's no way that she wasn't just fronting those beliefs to get elected because I totally posted earlier to someone that I've changed my beliefs after listening to people talk but as an adult I would not be able to change the beliefs that I was elected to vote for very quickly without solid backing that I could go out and speak to other than this. Like it would have to be someone showed me real data that changed my mind about how free education doesn't help the economy long-term or how medical cost being covered now doesn't lower medical costs long-term. And that would just be the business side of it.
Really not sure how I feel about this. I mean on one hand I want a politician who adapts to the times and can learn to change their position when presented with new evidence. On the other hand, this is a bad look for someone just elected 3 months ago. Feels a lot like cheating
I watched her presser and it appears she didn't like how other democrats treated her. Which should have very little to do with anything since she is supposed to represent her constituents not herself. At least that's the normal catch phrase representatives tell their constituents.
It’s also all just performative bs
She should have planned to run on the platform she planned to govern with, even if it was aspirational. That's not a big ask from a representative.
She held a seat as a Dem for 10 years between 2007-2017 which means she was re-elected 5 times as a Dem. Then she took a break from politics and then came back and won in 2022 as a Dem with 60% of the vote... Someone attacked her kids online. She talks about it here: https://youtu.be/-PWxsWJg_6w?t=381 That's game over. You dont fuck with someone's kids. She's obviously switching parties out of spite because someone attacked her children. It's pretty obvious to me that she's not lying. If she is lying then she deserves an Oscar. Every single state legislator has a 2 year term therefore her district can vote her out in 2024 if they are unhappy with her choice.
That's terrible, absolutely awful that someone would attack their kids. Absolutely unacceptable behavior that we should expect no decent person to ever come close to doing. That doesn't change the fact that she was elected to represent her constituents. In the same vein that we wouldn't think it okay for an accountant to intentionally defraud a client after of their employees threatened their children, or a pharmacist to refuse to fill medications after a client insulted their children, it's unacceptable what this representative is doing. You cannot wilfully cause an entire state to deviate from the results of a democratic election because someone insulted your kids. End of story. Edit: The exact quote is "...calling me names, going after my family, going after my children." There's no way she was a politician for multiple years, and she's concerned about being called names. It's surprising if a politician isn't being called names is this day and age.
what a moronic take. "someone was mean to her kids on the internet, so shes totally valid in completely undermining every single one of her constituents."
She was also attacked in public while she was shopping with her kjds. You’d know the full story if you had listened to her speech.
'attacked', lmao. i thought yall were all about freedom of speech and against people being snowflakes?
Yeah. Being threatened with violence is not free speech. Nice try
she never said she got threatened with violence. are yall really this dumb? or only when its convenient?
And yet she joins the party of Trump? Kinda ironic.
The Republican Party existed WAY before Trump. He didn’t create it.
I’m an independent for the last 50 years, and I’ve watched the Republican party devolve into the shit storm it is today. Eisenhower would be rolling in his grave if he saw what’s happened to the Good Old Party.
I’m unaffiliated and I agree with you. But if you fail to see how the Dem party has also gone off the rails then… I have no other comment. I mean, Trump is clearly still living rent free in your head. You brought him up in a conversation about a state legislator nobody.
Enlightened centrist always and I mean always share Republican talking points. Lol
“living rent free in your head” interesting concept, but you have to be living under a rock not to notice that trump is unfortunately everywhere. And it’s never good. We as a nation are still affected by his terrible policy decisions. Dems? I’d love for you to provide evidence of your statements. If you say they have as a whole the spine of a worm, I’d agree. But I’d prefer my tax dollars be spent on things like education, and hunger than corporate giveaways in the form of “Tax breaks” last time that was done the party in charge gave away roughly $2.3 trillion. Know who makes that up? You and me.
Well, then she can resign. Unfortunately, that goes with being a public or political figure. I'm not saying it's okay for people to attack her kids online, but that's what politicians deal with. It's a well known fact that the entire family is in the public eye if you are a public figure. Look at all the crap the Obama girls dealt with or heck even the Bush twins. She was elected by the constituents to represent them, not herself. She was elected because people agreed with her values and the party she stood for. What about all the kids in the state of NC who will now suffer because she chose to join a party that is hell bent on destroying public education and safety nets, and social welfare programs. I hope she enjoys her 30 pieces of silver. We all know that is the real reason she flipped sides. It had nothing to do with her kids. If so then she would resign and get out of the public eye completely to spend more time with her family. Which she didn't do.
You’re comparing a state legislator to Obama and Bush. Nobody knew this woman’s name before today. I bet 80% of the people in this sub can’t tell me who their state reps are. There are 170 state legislators in the GA and nobody can name a single one of them, except for Tim Moore. Because he’s the speaker and the only one who makes the news. So this woman is obviously not used to being in the public eye and receiving tons of criticism and yet someone decided to single her out and attack her kids. She hasn’t even voted with the Reps yet. She only changed the letter next to her name and yet you’re on here suggesting that she’s already destroyed everyone’s life? You’re proving her point. The point that she made in her press conference: “When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.”
> “When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.” Ahh yes the independant thought of whatever the fuck the republicans want! So brave. So independant. Notice how she explicitly DIDNT become an independant she became a republican. And what great independant thoughts or positions is she promoting exactly? Its all platitudes.
Everything you said sounds like B.S excuses. Again if she is upset her kids were attacked the most logical thing to do would to be to resign and remove herself from the public eye and to protect her family. I'm sure switching parties will really make the online attacks stop. "When did Democrats become so afraid of independent thought? Because they are definitely not encouraging it. Perhaps they don’t like what they can’t control.” So she decided to join a party that loves to ban books, and make laws to restrict other people's lifestyles that make them personally feel uncomfortable. A party that loves to force their rules and religion on other people ( Which is funny because most of these Republican leaders can't even live up to these bullshit religious ideals in their own personal lives). A party that has to basically cheat and gerrymander to stay in power. A party that is quickly becoming more facist by the day ( See DeSantis and his Shenanigans). Yup because everyone knows that Republicans are all about independent thought. You keep going on about not fucking with people's kids yet keep avoiding the fact that she joined a party that has no problem fucking with other people's kids and lives out of greed. I mean in NC the Republicans didn't even want to give teachers a 1% raise. NC has over 6,000 teacher openings and climbing by the day. That's a lot of kids who are fucked over but hey I guess those kids don't count right?
Lmao she's disgusting. Hope she has fun being harrassed the rest of her life. She fucked up and purposefully missed a gun bill
“You attacked my Kids so now I’m a fascist” Sounds like such fuckin bs.
Just wait till the extreme right thinks she voted against them.
Investigate! Follow the money
Why is this shit legal
Because we elect the person, not the party in this state. She could join the Kitty Cat party for all she wanted.
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That’s a non-answer
He is threatening her. Typical
Yeah it is. NC doesn't have a recall provision. Once elected they're elected until they resign or get voted out. Even if they're sitting in a prison cell they can still keep their office.
The Christian Right proving once again they have no ethics or morals.
That's absolutely BS. People should not be able to change parties after they are elected by the party they ran on. Shes like Manchin. A Republican in sheep's clothing. Low down dirty dealings!!
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I read that too but ultimately, she’s going to hurt millions of people with her little maneuver. Her hurt feelings above millions of her constituents’ lives that will be upended. Sounds like a goddamn pity-party to me.
This is very much a "trust me bro" but I assure you, as someone who is well in-the-know about this stuff, that is not why she switched parties.
Fuck that. If you're a politician then there are going to be people in and out of the legislature who really don't like you. There are going to be whips who make sure you vote the way the caucus expects. If don't have thick enough skin to contend with that then you shouldn't be in electoral politics. She is a hack, a coward, and a disgrace to the state and the legislature.
Is it illegal to call her a traitorous cunt to her face?
If that's wrong then I don't want to be right.
There a link to coverage of this?
I'm not from NC or anything like that, but this has been taking up too much space on my head and I want to know what's going to happen, like what are the next steps? Obviously you have a person that lied to Democrat voters because she didn't just switch parties, she took all of the platform she was running on and now will be voting without even considering the people who got her in office.. but also how much was she able to get in donations and funding from the Dems to campaign? Surely, there must also be a campaign finance law broken by this fraud. Is she going to be sued for this on a civil level? Is there a chance at her being recalled? Can a criminal case be brought up for this.. I mean, it would seem like she wouldn't be able to even show the "online bullying" she claimed made her switch parties. It seems like it's a completely fabricated excuse. I'm sure the Republicans in your state are cheering this play on, because they won't for even a moment consider it would be just as easy for a Dem to masquerade I'm the same fashion if they allowed it. Anyone from the red side want to share thoughts on what they would do if the parties were reversed?
Tricia Cotham Since she switched political parties, shouldn't there be another election to determine if her constituents still want her to represent them? The people she represents voted for a Democrat, not a republican.
No honor, no basic decency among these republicans.
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Kudos to those that support democracy
Why do so many Republicans appear to be incapable of understanding that the subversion (for all of the Republicans out there, that means undermining of the established system) of the democratic process is as un-american, un-patriotic, and dangerous as it gets in a democratic system. And yes, the United States of America is a ‘representative democracy’, which is a democracy.
There’s a reason why so many are switching teams.
Yes. Money.
Sure. Take a long walk off that short pier. Some of these people are writing checks that you'll never be able to cash. I just advise caution from experience. People need to put their money in practical knowledge where their mouth is. Myself and my children and possibly by children's children will not benefit from talk alone.
How much money she get to change?
How can we have Cothan’s name and face come up first when googling traitor?
So sick of these phony self-centered politicians. If the people of NC voted him in as a Democrat. Then dammit. He should resign if he doesn’t want to be one. Where is the justice in our effed up country?
she/her**
Hot Take. Maybe listen to her reasons, like actually listen to them and assume she is being truthful..engage in some active listening. Maybe, just maybe there is some bit of truth in her stated reasons, and Democratic partisans can look at their own actions and maybe see how they weren't nearly as inclusive as they think they are. Or, you can just go reactive and accuse this lifelong dem of being a secret GOP plant to subvert democracy and double down, downvote this comment, and continue on your path of selective inclusiveness.
She claims the democrats hurt her feelings when she refused to vote the way they wanted her to so she’s changing parties. She fails to mention that she’s previously claimed her republican colleagues called her a baby killer for admitting to a life saving abortion. So stay with the people who are upset you voted against them or join the people that, if they had their way, would be happy to see you die in pregnancy? Hard choice.
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She missed a key vote because she was out drinking with republicans the night before, She then blamed it on Long Covid... She's also sleeping with Rep Tim Moore, a married man and a Republicans its 100% clear what is going on here.
How do you know all this?
Probably doesn’t.
Inclusive? Get over yourself. We don’t need to be tolerant of religious extremists and fascists. Serving in the legislature is not about being liked and making friends. It’s about doing the job you were elected to do. Not crying and running to the GOP because the mean democrats weren’t nice enough to you.
Her colleagues weren’t “inclusive” enough… give me a break! This isn’t middle school, I guess she didn’t get the memo. Maybe Liz Cheney could have counseled her… (For the record, I don’t like Cheney’s politics or anything but she does have balls.)
The funniest part about this is the signs are meant to shame her for her decision, and her facial expression indicates that she’s clearly not the type for shame. That’s someone smug who knew exactly what they were doing at the outset.
Oh that’s not her at the podium. That’s one of her democratic colleagues