{"id":439,"date":"2011-09-27T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2011-09-27T20:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T20:55:47","slug":"nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"NC governor recommends suspending democracy to focus on jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"nc gov\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dc-cdn.virtacore.com\/2011\/08\/242f88cd8c4a48a3aaeb839dcaf7e6b5-300x293.jpg?resize=300%2C293\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>09\/27\/2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/09\/27\/nc-governor-recommends-suspending-democracy-to-focus-on-jobs\/\">By Matthew Boyle &#8211; The Daily Caller<\/a><br \/>\nAs a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Perdue said at a rotary club event in Cary, North Carolina, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Perdue said she thinks that temporarily halting elections would allow members of Congress to focus on the economy. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Perdue said.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina Republicans immediately scoffed at Perdue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposal, pointing out to her that elections hold politicians accountable for their actions. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now is a time when politicians need to be held accountable more than ever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood said in an email to The Daily Caller. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To suspend an election would be removing the surest mechanism that citizens have to hold politicians accountable: The right to vote.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09\/27\/2011 By Matthew Boyle &#8211; The Daily Caller As a way to solve the national debt crisis, North Carolina Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue recommends suspending Congressional elections for the next couple of years. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[474,476,473,475],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}