GOP goes AOC; votes to advance socialism in HB951 | Eastern NC Now

Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez' former chief of staff famously admitted that the Green New Deal was not about the environment but was about building socialism.  Shamefully, a phalanx of NC Republican legislators have just voted to advance socialism by passing a radical Green New Deal for North Carolina, HB951.

This bill is in line with the radical energy policies of the Biden administration and totally repudiates President Trump's America First policies.  President Trump got us out of the straightjacket of the Paris Climate Accords, but HB951 is the Paris agreement on steroids.  Senate President Phil Berger who negotiated this surrender with leftwing Governor Roy Cooper, giving Cooper 100% of what he demanded, should change his name to ThunBerger.

Under this bill, NC will have to reduce CO2 emissions by 70% by 2030, much more radical than the EU's legislation to reduce them by 50% by that year.  That means replacement of cheap and reliable coal fired power with expensive and undependable wind and solar. That will mean skyrocketing electric bills and unreliable service.  In Europe,  electric rates have already risen an average of 15% in the few months since passage, and Italy just got socked with a 30% rate increase, which would have been 45% if the government had not subsidized part of it.  Poland projects a 40% increase in the near future, and these are just the beginning.  Germany, which has already been on this path for years, pays three times what NC residents pay now for residential electric service.

In the state Senate, the only Republican who stood up against the radical Green New Deal was Senator Chuck Edwards (R-Henderson).  All others are Green New Deal Republicans who need to be removed in the primaries.

In the state House, only eight Republicans stood for the ratepayer and the Republican base, They were George Cleveland (R-Onslow), Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus), Mark Brody (R-Union), Mark Pless (R-Haywood), Mitchell Setzer (R-Catawba), John Torbett (R-Gaston), Steven Tyson (R-Craven) and Larry Yarborough (R-Person).  Seven Republicans had excused absences, including Rep. Keith Kidwell, who, along with his wife, has continuing health problems which began with the bout of both of them with Covid, both being hospitalized.

We have a lot of changes we need to make in the primaries or we need to just give up on the Republican Party in this state.  If they will sell out to the Green New Deal, they will sell out on anything.