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 short — is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government during its investigations. The rule applies to contractors, subcontractors, and any other non-state entity “receiving, directly and indirectly, public funds,” including charities and state universities.
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.
They are not Republicans they are Nazis
Same thing for a while now.
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)’.
don’t get hung up on republicans slogans like “small gov’t” or “free speech” they don’t mean anything and never did