Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Mecklenburg's bi-partisan delegation?

It's a Democratic-dominated delegation in a Republican-led General Assembly. If you wouldn't expect everything to go perfectly smoothly, you wouldn't be disappointed.

Mecklenburg County's 17-member strong delegation meets Wednesday morning to begin parceling out local bills and looking at local agendas. It will be under the chairmanship of Sen. Malcolm Graham, a Charlotte Democrat.

But some Republicans had hoped to share the leadership, even though Mecklenburg Democrats outnumber them 9-8.

"Ideally you want your delegation to act in a non-partisan manner for the benefit of Mecklenburg County," says Rep. Bill Brawley, a Matthews Republican. "So the reason you would have co-chairs .... from each party is you’d have non-partisan leadership."

Brawley and some other Republicans are still chafed that Democrats convened their first delegation meeting in early January, at a time most Republicans had a conflict.

Graham says the group has always worked together, even under one chairman.

"We've always tried to work as a non-partisan group," he says. "Most of the issues locally are non-controversial.... If Bill will just come and participate, he’ll find that his voice will be heard just like everybody else."





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They would have to be "bi" to all climb in bed together for sure and no question about the democrat pervs but not so much for the republicans.

Anonymous said...

Yawnnnnnnnnnn ... On another note...

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20130212/NEWS/130219947/1015/sports?Title=Four-Alabama-football-players-arrested

Yikes, more college football laptop thiefs and def Panther draftee material for remodeled BOA ... No wonder JR went to Raleigh on his knees ...

Anonymous said...

http://cnsnews.com/blog/walter-e-williams/its-cultural-deviancy-not-guns

GO WALTER