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North Carolina Open Thread: Ted Budd is deplorable, Chemours is still polluting, Cooper saved lives [1]
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Date: 2022-09-25
BlueNC, WRAL, 9/25/2022
When it comes to upholding the results of elections in North Carolina and the United States – the most recent of which in 2020 for president have been shown to have been fair and free of manipulation – there is no room for equivocation. Incumbents who want to continue to represent this state in Washington -- but who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 elections and still stand with former President Donald Trump’s outlandish and false notion he defeated Joe Biden – do not deserve to return.
On Jan. 6, 2021 Budd voted (along with every other North Carolina Republican member of the U.S. House except Patrick McHenry) to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Democrat Joe Biden clearly won. Budd said on Twitter at the time there were “irregularities (and) constitutional violations in the presidential election.” When it comes to pledging loyalty to our nation, Americans don’t swear to monarchs, dictators or deities. The pledge is to uphold protect and defend the Constitution.
Loyalty to a political party or to a politician should NEVER override honesty, Integrity and the rule of law. I don't care if Budd swears on a stack of bibles he will honor the results of the upcoming election, his actions speak much louder than his words. And those actions have been undemocratic and downright treasonous.
https://legacy.wral.com/editorial-voters-shouldn-t-back-candidates-who-are-election-deniers/20486679/
x Not only does @TedBuddNC still question the 2020 election, but he won't commit to accepting the results of this year's election. Like Trump, it'll only be legit if he wins. That's becoming a bigger and bigger "if." #ncpol #ncsen
https://t.co/IKEa2AmbgL — Dustin Ingalls (@punstiningalls) September 19, 2022
BlueNC, News and Record, 9/21/2022
I read the News & Record each morning that has been promptly delivered by James Doggett, and I follow the columns and articles closely. After looking over several summaries of how our local congressional delegations voted recently, I have noticed that, rather than voting “ yea” or “nay,” as others have done, Ted Budd is often listed as “not voting.”
My question is this: Is Mr. Budd not present in Congress when it is in session to vote on legislation? Is he absent for campaigning, fundraising and travel? Does he choose not to vote on pieces of legislation so he can later say he “did not vote for or against” if they later become problematic? I am inquiring about this before we choose who will represent us as our senator from North Carolina in the next election. Thoughts?
He's too busy kissing ass for money and hanging out with nut cases like Boebert to actually do his job. I just can't figure out if it's a good thing or a bad thing...
https://greensboro.com/opinion/letters/wednesdays-letters-september-21-2022/article_e22f716a-3872-11…
Learn more about how he repeatedly sides with the corporate special interests that fund his campaign over what’s best for North Carolina:
FARMERS CAN’T TRUST BUDD
AROUND THE WORLD WITH TED BUDD
BIG OIL IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT
VOTES NO, GETS THE DOUGH FROM BIG PHARMA
BUDD PROTECTS PAYDAY LENDERS, NC PAYS THE PRICE
BUDD BACKS WALL ST. OVER MAIN ST.
NC Policy Watch, Kirk Ross, 9/23/2022
The latest polls show that the gap between Cheri Beasley and Ted Budd continues to narrow, while the candidates’ differences on key issues have sharpened ahead of what could be their one and only debate.
Budd, who avoided debates during an extended and contentious GOP primary, agreed to go toe-to-toe with Beasley, who faced nominal opposition and no debates in the Democratic primary, on Oct. 7. The event will air on Spectrum News and be moderated by Tim Boyum.
Both campaigns are benefiting from a fresh infusion of outside spending, including $3.4 million for Budd from Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate Leadership PAC and $1 million for Beasley from Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer’s campaign account.
Although the race is clearly tightening, it hasn’t received as much national attention as other key Senate races in the 2022 cycle.
NC Policy watch, Rob Schofield, 9/20/2022
The U.S is now two and a half years into the COVID-19 pandemic and while we have thankfully made tremendous progress since the hell of those dark and chaotic early days, many of the most disturbing events from that period haven’t receded all that far in the rear-view mirror.
It seems like just yesterday that hospitals and morgues were overflowing, even as then-President Donald Trump was promising that the crisis would magically “disappear” by Easter of 2020, and he was issuing a seemingly endless series of scientifically invalid observations and statements.
Then, of course, were the rancorous protests of the misguided “reopen” advocates, who demanded an end to the application of proven public health practices, like face masks and social distancing, even before scientists had worked heroically to produce and deploy vaccines and therapies.
And remember the many conservative politicians, activists and “think tanks” in North Carolina who unleashed a relentless fusillade of invective at Gov. Roy Cooper for his supposedly “tyrannical” refusal to follow the lead of other (mostly southern) governors who had plunged ahead with reopening while the pandemic continued to rage?
NC Policy Watch, Lisa Sorg, 9/22/2022 (with permission)
Chemours – the billion-dollar company responsible for contaminating the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of people in the Lower Cape Fear River Basin, the company that is challenging the EPA’s scientific findings that GenX is toxic, the company that after 28 months has yet to submit a revised corrective action plan to clean up polluted groundwater beneath at least seven square miles around its Fayetteville Works plant, the company that recently was fined $305,000 for environmental violations by the state of North Carolina – plans to expand.
Chemours wants to increase its production of a molecular building block for PFA, a type of fluoropolymer, at Fayetteville Works in northern Bladen County, near the Cumberland County line. This building block is also known as a monomer.
PFA stands for perfluoroalkoxy alkanes. They belong to the PFAS family but have a slightly different molecular structure. The chemical industry has claimed that PFA, the fluoropolymer, is a “polymer of low concern.”
However, a paper in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science & Technology casts doubt on that assertion. Jamie DeWitt, a professor of pharmacology & toxicology at East Carolina University, and an expert on PFAS, is among the paper’s authors. They concluded that based on their review of the evidence, there is not a “scientific rationale” for concluding that fluoropolymers like PFA are of low concern for environmental and human health.
PFA versus PFAS
There is an important distinction between PFA and PFAS, although each poses environmental and public health risks. PFA stands for perfluoroalkoxy alkanes. They have a slightly different molecular structure than other compounds within the PFAS family. Heat-resistant and durable, they are used in the semiconductor, transportation and medical equipment industries. Seth Bailey, a manufacturing technology manager at Chemours’s Advanced Performance Materials section, said the company’s Fayetteville Works plant is “the only supplier of these raw materials to make these products, to enable things that we depend on every day.” PFAS is short for perfluorinated compounds, of which there are at least 10,000 types. All PFAS, including GenX, that independent scientists have studied so far have been found to be toxic to human health and the environment. They’ve been linked to thyroid disorders, kidney and testicular cancer, high cholesterol, a depressed immune system, low birth weight and reproductive problems. Scientists have also found GenX exposure can impair liver function. When PFA is manufactured, the process can generate PFAS as byproduct.
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