Rep. Deb Butler (D-New Hanover)
North Carolina Republicans have enjoyed large majorities in the General Assembly for nearly 15 years, and during that period, Democrats have often done a poor job of crafting and communicating a coherent alternative vision to the GOP’s hard right policy agenda. Recently, however, progressive Democratic legislators have come together to change that situation.
This year, as state lawmakers gather in Raleigh, Democrats are not merely opposing Republican priorities on everything from taxes and education to immigration and reproductive freedom, they’re introducing an ambitious slate of proposals of their own that they believe point the state in a better direction, and recently NC Newsline caught up with one of the leaders of this new, more assertive approach, New Hanover County State Rep. Deb Butler.
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