Who holds the record for the longest budget session in NC history? Roy Cooper. | Eastern North Carolina Now

    News Release:

    In his quest to restore the broken Democrat state machine in Raleigh, Roy Cooper continues to hope North Carolinians forget his record and history.

    Exhibit #1: The same day Governor McCrory and legislative leaders announced a breakthrough spending agreement, Roy Cooper sent out a campaign email solicitation criticizing the length of the ongoing state budget negotiations.

    But Roy Cooper seems to have forgotten that in 1998 as the General Assembly's Senate Majority Leader, he was in charge of hammering out and passing a budget during what turned out to be the longest budget session in state history.

           •  "After 247 days of banging gavels and knocking heads, North Carolina's 'part-time' legislature ended the longest two-year session of the General Assembly in state history yesterday." (David Rice, "Assembly shuts up shop for the year session's record length leads to call for limits on duration, expenses," Winston-Salem Journal, 10/30/1998)

           •  "'It's difficult to negotiate with a moving target, and that's the problem we faced in our negotiations with the House leadership,' said Senate Majority Leader Roy Cooper, D-Nash." (David Rice, "Assembly shuts up shop for the year session's record length leads to call for limits on duration, expenses," Winston-Salem Journal, 10/30/1998)


    Contact: Kara Carter
            NCGOP Press Secretary
        kara.carter@ncgop.org