The Governor, the Pro-Team and the Pandemic
Published January 27, 2021
Politics and the pandemic are inseparable in North Carolina.
Last year’s gubernatorial election got caught up in Covid fever. This year, pandemic politics likely will spread to the legislature – and write the latest chapter in North Carolina’s eternal power struggle between governors and legislators.
Senate President Pro-Tem Phil Berger says Governor Roy Cooper’s exercise of emergency powers in the pandemic “is inconsistent with what our system of government would expect.” Berger added, “I would like to see some changes.”
Need I note that Berger is a Republican and Cooper is a Democrat?