North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham ditches Democratic Party for GOP: 'I will not be bullied' | Washington Examiner
By: Washington Examiner
Good for her........wonder how many, if any, will finally see the light and follow her.
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North Carolinastate Rep. Tricia Cotham said she became a Republican because the Left cannot stand her "being an independent thinker in this world of cancel culture that has taken over the Democratic Party."
On Wednesday, Cotham announced she would be switching party affiliations. She said she made the switch after she voted her conscience that went against what state Democrats desired, drawing attack ads with calls for her to resign.
"I will not be bullied," Cotham told Fox and Friends First. "I am a free thinker. I stand firm on that because we do have freedom in this country, and I have the right to free thought unbeknownst to what they believe."
Cotham said she has also been told not to pray or wear camouflage clothing.
"I'm a very strong woman of faith. That is extremely important to me. I display that loudly and proudly, and I've prayed several times in our beautiful chamber and had many comments and then things sent around about, 'Please do not do that,' 'Please do not pray to Jesus,'" the state representative said. "I was told that if I wore camo that I was not a good person and a real Democrat. The list really goes on and on."
"This is when you have extremists take over the party with radical groups that also help to control the party," Cotham added. "This is what happens."
Cotham's switching political parties handed the North Carolina GOP a supermajority in both state legislature chambers while essentially rendering Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto useless if all members show up to vote, granting the state GOP immense power to enact the legislation it wants.
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"You can expect to see us continue to move North Carolina in the direction it's been — a low regulation, low tax state that is focused on education, economic development, and really moving away from this wokeness, from some of this silliness that is out there," North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore said.
In one day's time since gaining the supermajority, North Carolina Republicans have filed legislation they've long sought after, including bills to limit policies touted by transgender activists.
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Read some of the shit they put her through. The party of group think.
Trump is off topic as are his supporters and the arraignments and subsequent up and coming trials.
Good for her.
Gee, I wonder how many names Democrats will call her now?
By using the term "cancel culture" it's quite obvious she was never a democrat.
That is one of the dumbest posts I have ever read.
Thanks so ever much!
The Democrats here in NC have fucked things up. Just like the Democrats in D.C.
Gov Stooper is as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle.
I have to remember that one!
North Carolina state Rep. Tricia Cotham seems to represent everything the radical left despises: the military (camo clothing), religious faith, and free thought/speech (First Amendment Rights), so it's no surprise that she's chosen to find a less toxic and judgmental political home.
And to think there are some delusional enough to make the claim that Democrats don't do those things.
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" ... the Left cannot stand her "being an independent thinker"
She could always discuss this "independent thinker" thingy with a certain gal from Wyoming.
Well, that certain gal from Wyoming is RINO anyway. She just won't admit it and switch parties already.
Yeah. Everyone loves 'forced childbirth, right?'
I would like to be shown where someone was forced to give birth. In America. Recently.
Follow the money.
It just goes to show you even a Democrat can smarten up given enough time and if they lay off the bullshit coolaid