Thursday Wrap: Protests, fallout from redistricting and remembering Beverly Lake
Emotions continued to run high at the General Assembly on Thursday, one day after the House voted to override the governor's budget veto while most Democrats were absent.
Posted — UpdatedDozens of protesters converged on the Legislative Building and drowned out much of the brief House session with shouts of "shame, shame, shame." They also called for House Speaker Tim Moore to resign.
Elsewhere, the Senate sent two "mini-budget" proposals on disaster relief spending and prison safety upgrades to Gov. Roy Cooper.
Also, both the House and the Senate continue to work on new voting maps ahead of a Sept. 18 deadline. Sen. John Alexander, R-Wake, said he doesn't plan to run for re-election in 2020, making a redraw of Senate districts in Wake and Franklin counties easier. The new map would likely have put him and Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, into the same district.
On the House map side, a proposed map puts Reps. Ted Davis and Holly Grange, two New Hanover County Republicans, into the same district. But Grange has announced plans to run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination next year, so that appears to eliminate any conflict there.
Finally, former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. has died. The conservative Lake will most likely be remembered for his creation of the state Innocence Inquiry Commission, which has exonerated a number of wrongfully convicted people over the past decade.
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