Thread: REPUBLICAN SENATE CAUCUS ANNOUNCES NORTH CAROLINA FIRST PLAN

REPUBLICAN SENATE CAUCUS ANNOUNCES NORTH CAROLINA FIRST PLAN
REPUBLICAN SENATE CAUCUS ANNOUNCES
NORTH CAROLINA FIRST PLAN

The North Carolina Republican Senate Caucus today issued the North Carolina First plan at a press conference led by Senate Republican Leader Phil Berger (R-District 26). The plan outlines priority legislation Republican Senators will introduce in the upcoming session.

Senator Berger made the following statement regarding the N.C. First plan:

“In recent years, Democrat leadership has given North Carolina annual billion dollar tax increases, a floundering public school system, plant closings and job losses, ever higher health care costs, and disgraceful scandals. For many years, the Senate Republicans have seen the need for legislation addressing the issues in the North Carolina First plan. Repeatedly, the Democrat majority has blocked those initiatives and referred Republican bills to committees that never meet.

“The 21 members of the Republican Senate Caucus are committed to making North Carolina a better place to live, work, and raise our families. We strongly believe that by implementing the North Carolina First plan, our state will return to its rightful status as the leader and First State in the southeast.”




North Carolina First

Republican Senators will introduce legislation, and a Republican Senate Majority will bring
to a vote in the 2007 Session, bills to:

1. Restore citizens’ faith in State Government that recent Democrat scandals have undermined.
• A Constitutional Amendment limiting the duration of legislative sessions
• Provide term limits for the office of President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives
• Require disclosure and regulation of politician's legal defense funds
• Prohibit lobbyists' soliciting campaign contributions

2. End North Carolina’s status as a safe-haven for illegal immigrants.
• Make English the official language of government business in North Carolina
• End in-state tuition for illegal immigrants at North Carolina Community Colleges
• Stop welfare and entitlement benefits for illegal immigrants
• Stop illegal immigrants from receiving or renewing North Carolina Driver’s licenses
• Require a valid photo ID be shown when voting
3. Improve Education.
• Use national tests to evaluate student performance
• Create a merit pay program for effective teachers
• Remove violent and disrespectful students from classrooms and empower classroom teachers to deal with problem students
• Lift the cap on public charter schools
• Strengthen vocational education

4. Reduce North Carolina's tax burden.
• Reduce and effectively cap the gasoline tax
• Eliminate North Carolina’s “Death Tax”
• Eliminate the temporary sales and income taxes

5. Prioritize spending, eliminate waste, and make government more efficient.
• Require Zero-Based Budgeting
• Establish a Taxpayer Protection Act for North Carolinians
• End the raids from the Highway Trust Fund

6. Amend North Carolina's Constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one
woman.

7. Enact meaningful medical malpractice reforms.

8. Increase the availability and affordability of healthcare and healthcare insurance.
• Reinstate the child healthcare tax credit repealed by the Democrats in 2002

9. Amend North Carolina’s Constitution to protect private property from being taken for economic
development

10. Protect our citizens.
• Increase active sentences for gang related crimes
• Require every person charged with a felony to provide a DNA sample for the State’s DNA database
• Make fetal murder a crime in North Carolina (Laci Peterson’s Law)
• Strengthen our laws to protect our children from sexual predators (Jessica’s Law)

http://www.northcarolinaconservative.co ... om=&ucat=&

HOT DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope they mean it!