Post by Logan on Jun 18, 2016 4:27:43 GMT -6
RALEIGH -- Police arrested 14 people Wednesday evening, including several teachers, after they blocked a downtown intersection during a protest of Gov. Pat McCrory’s education policies.
The Organize 2020 group, sponsored by the N.C. Association of Educators, had sought to meet with McCrory after a 23-mile protest march from Durham and North Raleigh to the State Capitol.
McCrory’s staff said the governor had a scheduling conflict and could not meet with the group. The governor’s office later offered to arrange a meeting with two top McCrory aides. But when the group arrived at the Capitol building around 5 p.m., the building was locked.
That’s when the group decided to block the intersection of Morgan and Fayetteville streets. About 14 of them sat down and linked arms in the street, while dozens of others cheered and chanted from the sidewalk.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article84023702.html
The governor's re-elction campaign tried to assign blame for the protest to his opponent, Attorney General Roy Cooper. It appears that the governor behave like other Republicans in his attempts to shift the blame for the repercussions of his regressive policies to others.
The Organize 2020 group, sponsored by the N.C. Association of Educators, had sought to meet with McCrory after a 23-mile protest march from Durham and North Raleigh to the State Capitol.
McCrory’s staff said the governor had a scheduling conflict and could not meet with the group. The governor’s office later offered to arrange a meeting with two top McCrory aides. But when the group arrived at the Capitol building around 5 p.m., the building was locked.
That’s when the group decided to block the intersection of Morgan and Fayetteville streets. About 14 of them sat down and linked arms in the street, while dozens of others cheered and chanted from the sidewalk.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article84023702.html
The governor's re-elction campaign tried to assign blame for the protest to his opponent, Attorney General Roy Cooper. It appears that the governor behave like other Republicans in his attempts to shift the blame for the repercussions of his regressive policies to others.