NC General Assembly In Session Tomorrow (April 21): Phil Berger's Parting Shot

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"History should help guide our steps on those issues, and we should focus on solutions to common challenges — crime, poverty, socialism, wasteful bureaucracy, and radical ideologies that prevent everyday North Carolinians from achieving the American dream.

None of these policy questions will be resolved by a long message from me. Only time and good-faith engagement through the legislative process can do that. But my goal in sharing these thoughts, directly and in writing, is that we can approach the next few weeks with a clear understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and choices before us, even if we haven’t yet found a pathway to successfully resolve the decisions to be made.

My hope is to continue our solution-oriented approach to policy that has made North Carolina’s General Assembly the most successful and effective conservative legislative body in the country."


But there actually is a long message from Berger...cont.

COLUMN: Let's Not Miss Our Chance to Continue North Carolina's Conservative Successes​


From the day voters gave Republicans control of the General Assembly after over a century of Democratic rule, we’ve made progress on numerous fronts — tax cuts, regulatory reform, restrained spending, K-12 education reforms, parental school choice expansion, transformational university stewardship, and more. Our state is the national leader in smart, conservative governance. All Republican legislators elected in 2010 and since share credit for that success.

Let’s not lose sight of the progress on major issues made during the 2025 long session. Working together, the House and Senate enacted reforms to make our communities safer, take important strides toward energy availability and affordability, protect women’s sports, define the two sexes in state law, and impose accountability for those who commit serious crimes.

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“President Trump and Republicans at the federal level are implementing a national vision that is largely aligned with what we have instituted in North Carolina,” Berger wrote. “With that, new opportunities are now present for positive improvements in power generation and affordability, healthcare affordability through free market reforms, and to limit fraud in safety net programs so that those programs help citizens truly in need.”
 
I'm so, so glad that reactionary asshole will be gone from the legislature after this year. He's been one of the prime forces behind every bit of reactionary legislation that's been passed in the last fifteen years, and he's been very successful in pursuing his (and Art Pope's) extreme right-wing agenda. To cite just one example of his awfulness, we've got more and more public school systems in this state that are facing serious budget deficits, not because of corruption or wastefulness, but because Berger has very successfully been gradually starving public school districts of necessary funding and diverting it into dubious vouchers and charters. He's a very clever, ruthless, and resourceful legislative leader in terms of obtaining his goals, and it's a blessing to the people of this state that he will be out of office next year. Sam Page is just as MAGA, but he will have none of Berger's influence or power over legislation. Goodbye, Phil, and don't let the legislature doors hit your ass on the way out.
 
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