Opinion: Hypocrisy and Fake News Abound at WRAL

Just how dumb do Democracy NC and WRAL think North Carolinians are?

Hypocrisy and fake news abound these days at North Carolina media outlet, WRAL.

Last week, the outlet dropped not one, but three separate reports on a story regarding a video studio located in the Lt. Governor’s office.

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WRAL Misses Mark on Dark Money Group Fundraiser

This article first appeared at American Lens News on November 20, 2017.

Local media outlet, WRAL, missed the mark on the Dark Money fundraiser Governor Cooper and Attorney General Stein will be attending later this month.

What WRAL gave readers was a sanitized, 30,000-foot view of the dark money group, barely mentioning in passing that Moving NC Forward is a 501(c)4 organization and as such, does not have to disclose its donors.

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Russian Dossier Firm Linked to NC’s Cooper, Redistricting, Voter ID

This article first appeared at American Lens News on November 1, 2017.

Editorial: Russian Dossier Firm Linked to Cooper, Redistricting, Voter ID

Last week the Washington Post reported that Marc Elias of the Perkins-Coie law firm was the same person who commissioned and disseminated the now infamous Russian dossier on President Trump compiled by Fusion GPS.

After indictments were handed down on Paul Manafort and his associate John Gates, it seems the Podestas are on the run. John Podesta’s brother, Tony Podesta, has folded up his shop in wake of the Mueller indictments.

Meanwhile, the media has pivoted to a low-level staffer named Papadopolous, who might have worn a wire for the FBI,  in hopes of salvaging their nearly year-long Russia collusion narratives.

All those cries of ‘Russian interference’. All the collusion claims. Looks like the Russian dossier and the ‘fight against Trump’ themes have boomeranged on Clinton, Elias and the Democrats.

But what most people don’t know is that Perkins Coie and Elias have also been fighting to throw-out NC’s congressional and state legislative districts. Further complicating the matter is the fact that that this is the same firm that challenged NC’s Voter Id law. To make things even more sketchy, around that same time Elias was Governor Roy Cooper’s attorney.

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Special Master Imposed by Court on NC Redistricting

This article first appeared at American Lens on October 31, 2017.
This article and related previous articles are being republished here as the redistricting legal battles in NC continue

North Carolina – A three-judge panel handed down an order which stated that the court would acquiesce to plaintiff requests in the ongoing Covington v. North Carolina case for a Special Master to be assigned to oversee the state’s legislative redistricting process.

The order was delivered by U.S. Middle District Court Judge Catherine Eagles.

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LGBT PAC Dark Money Ties Boosted Cooper, Stein

An LGBT PAC that took donations from Hollywood producer and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein gave money to two organizations with political ties in North Carolina during 2016.

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Cooper On Track To Break Veto Record

This article first appeared at American Lens News on October 24, 2017.

North Carolina’s Democrat Governor, Roy Cooper, is on track to break the veto record held by former Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue.

During her one-term tenure, Perdue had 20 vetoes – 19 in one year.  Republican Governor Pat McCrory had 6 over his one term. Roy Cooper already has racked up 13 in his first 10 months.

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