‘I Am The Senator’

Dwane Powell’s return to the N&O captured in one cartoon – a depiction of the Republican elephant gone wild – what thousands of words fail to describe.
 
(Congratulations, incidentally, to Powell on being selected for the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame.)
 
Even a Republican TAPster wrote: “This cartoon just about sums it up. The speed limit sign of infinity cracks me up.”
 
He added, “They (GOP legislative leaders) think that if they don’t go for everything all at once, then they will be betraying their base and get attacked for it.”
 
Haste. And arrogance. As epitomized by Senator Tommy Tucker from Union County, who told a North Carolina newspaper publisher “I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.”
 
Chris Fitzsimon’s blog at NC Policy Watch captured that incident best: “Tucker’s berating of a citizen he is supposed to be representing wasn’t all that surprising. That’s the way the General Assembly, especially the Senate, is run these days.
 
“The folks in charge not only want to make sure you know they are in charge, they want your obedience, not your questions or doubts and certainly not your disagreements. It’s clear they not only have an ideological agenda to pursue, they have scores to settle from their years in the minority.”
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‘I Am The Senator’

Dwane Powell’s return to the N&O captured in one cartoon – a depiction of the Republican elephant gone wild – what thousands of words fail to describe.
 
(Congratulations, incidentally, to Powell on being selected for the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame.)
 
Even a Republican TAPster wrote: “This cartoon just about sums it up. The speed limit sign of infinity cracks me up.”
 
He added, “They (GOP legislative leaders) think that if they don’t go for everything all at once, then they will be betraying their base and get attacked for it.”
 
Haste. And arrogance. As epitomized by Senator Tommy Tucker from Union County, who told a North Carolina newspaper publisher “I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet.”
 
Chris Fitzsimon’s blog at NC Policy Watch captured that incident best: “Tucker’s berating of a citizen he is supposed to be representing wasn’t all that surprising. That’s the way the General Assembly, especially the Senate, is run these days.
 
“The folks in charge not only want to make sure you know they are in charge, they want your obedience, not your questions or doubts and certainly not your disagreements. It’s clear they not only have an ideological agenda to pursue, they have scores to settle from their years in the minority.”
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