The North Carolina Supreme Court building in Raleigh. (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) Former North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest can sue over a 2012 political ad that favored his Democratic opponent, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
In 2012, a political action committee for the State Employees Association of North Carolina placed television advertisements supporting Linda Coleman, a Democratic candidate who narrowly lost the lieutenant gubernatorial election to Forest later that year.
According to a complaint filed by Forest’s election committee, the Employees Political Action Committee (EMPAC) did not include proper disclosures when it ran one of these advertisements.
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?