North Carolina’s new $300 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.
As someone in Tennessee that goes to the range regularly and just found out one of his college friends was concealed carrying every time it wasn’t illegal:
Eh not worth the rest of the baggage. You, at least, don’t have to worry about right wing death squads or getting kid-trapped by a girl who’s scared to travel out of state for an abortion.
I’m definitely planning on moving to a state that combines that with a healthy respect for the right to self defense though.
The problem is those tend to be cold af.