Lil’ Josh toots his horn: Finally “fixed” Roy Cooper’s crime lab mess.
One of the main things Team Stein is touting in the governor’s race these days is the clearance of the testing backlog of rape kits in the state crime lab. The strange thing? That backlog dates back to — at least – Roy Cooper’s tenure in the attorney general’s office.
I remember the 2016 campaign. In order to get results back in a timely manner and in time for trial, local governments were having to outsource their crime scene analysis work to private labs. The state crime lab, then overseen by part-time AG but full-time gubernatorial candidate Roy Cooper, had an obscene backlog in its workload.
This site, and others, begged the reelection campaign of one Pat McCrory to bludgeon Cooper over the head with this piece of info. An AG who leaves loads of crime victims high and dry? The copy almost writes itself.
For some reason, Team McCrory did not take on the issue. As we all know, McCrory lost a close race to Cooper that year and we got eight years of Governor Cooper.
It’s great that lil’ Josh finally cleaned up the mess he inherited from his immediate predecessor. It’s great that a whole lot of crime victims finally got some justice. But it was a travesty that it was even allowed to happen or much less fester for this long.
I wondered if anyone else recalled it was COOPER that originally created this entire saga. I told my wife 1st time I saw it, well, if that’s not the biggest scam ever. He’s FIXING the dem/cooper disaster after almost 8Y…..8 years…..backlog….Not sure if that’s progress or not.
And, Robinson campaign NEEDS to clean his clock on that record. There’s old ads on this matter. Revive them and smash Josh’s and Roy’s noses in it.
The first version of Stein’s ad claimed he “passed a law” to clear up the backlog, but that, of course was total BS. The General Assembly is who passes laws, not the AG. It was the General Assembly which took action to push the AG to clean up that backlog. Stein has, at least, corrected the ad so that it no longer claims he “passed a law”.
Stein is also failing to protect North Carolina’s girls from Biden’s attempt to rewrite Title IX of the 1972 Civil Rights Act by executive fiat. Biden’s rewrite, done without consulting Congress, would turn Title IX on its head and have in focus on protecting “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” in education instead of girls in education as Congress passed it. It would force schools to let boys into girls athletics and girls restrooms and locker rooms.
Twenty six state attorney generals so far have filed lawsuits to block the Biden rewrite in their states. Ten states have already had hearings on preliminary injunctions to block it in their state while the cases go to trial, and the judges have blocked it for all ten. What has Stein done to protect North Carolina’s girls? Absolutely nothing. He has not filed a lawsuit on the issue. This could be a huge issue for Mark Robinson if he had campaign staff with the brains to use it.
Stein is too busy defending UNC and NC State’s discriminatory admissions policies in front of the US Supreme court to file a lawsuit to protect our female athletes.
Of course the Republican appointees could have ended UNC and NC State’s racial discrimination and they could also stand up for female athletes, but we all know they are there for the power, the prestige, and/or control of the money.
The last thing on their mind is exerting effort and fighting for conservative, or even centrist, governance. That might make them not get invited to the Chancellor’s Cocktail Parties, the News & Observer might write something bad about them, or they might have to actually put in effort.
You nailed it. My thoughts exactly.