"The party wants to villainize anyone who has free thought, free judgement, has solutions and wants to get to work to better our state. Not just sit in a meeting and have a workshop after a workshop, but really work with individuals to get things done. Because that is what real public servants do. If you don't do exactly what the Democrats want you to do they will try to bully you. They will try to cast you aside," she said.

https://abc11.com/amp/tricia-cotham-nort...3086628%2F



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I bet she’s a racist now.

https://www.bpr.org/2023-04-05/nc-rep-co...rty-switch

"I’ve suffered many attacks since I’ve been up here, from Democrats in the party, from blasting me on Twitter, to calling me names, to going after my family, going after my children," she said. She didn't name names, but she suggested that some of her fellow women in the Democratic caucus were among her detractors.

"They certainly will slice and dice you in a second with malicious, vicious, untrue rumors and do not celebrate your success," she said.



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All the liberals in NC are saying she took a payoff from the GOP. They can't fathom the idea that the Democrats have skewed so far left they're now unrecognizable.

I bet this woman will butt heads with her soon to be fellow Republicans on issues... but at least she's proven she's not an insane leftist. We can work with that.

She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

I'm shocked it took her 5 months to switch. The NC Dems are lunatics... she probably realized immediately she'd made a mistake.

(04-05-2023 11:33 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

I'm shocked it took her 5 months to switch. The NC Dems are lunatics... she probably realized immediately she'd made a mistake.

She was a plant. I have no idea if she can be recalled, but she’s if she can then she will be.

(04-05-2023 11:35 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:33 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

I'm shocked it took her 5 months to switch. The NC Dems are lunatics... she probably realized immediately she'd made a mistake.

She was a plant. I have no idea if she can be recalled, but she’s if she can then she will be.

No... Democrats are just terrible people. They just simply can't help but be awful.

Her words:

"The "modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me and others across the state," said Cotham. "I will not be controlled by anyone."

The turning point for Cotham, she explained, was when she was criticized for using the American flag and praying hands emoji on social media and on her vehicles.

Democrats have been "blasting me on Twitter to calling me names, coming after my family, coming after my children," continued Cotham. "That is wrong." She added that a woman cursed her out at a store while she was shopping with her son."

(04-05-2023 11:39 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:35 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:33 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

I'm shocked it took her 5 months to switch. The NC Dems are lunatics... she probably realized immediately she'd made a mistake.

She was a plant. I have no idea if she can be recalled, but she’s if she can then she will be.

No... Democrats are just terrible people. They just simply can't help but be awful.

Her words:

"The "modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me and others across the state," said Cotham. "I will not be controlled by anyone."

The turning point for Cotham, she explained, was when she was criticized for using the American flag and praying hands emoji on social media and on her vehicles.

Democrats have been "blasting me on Twitter to calling me names, coming after my family, coming after my children," continued Cotham. "That is wrong." She added that a woman cursed her out at a store while she was shopping with her son."

Well, yeah, the Stars & Stripes is a symbol of white supremacy. She was toast when she posted that. In a Blue heavy district too? She s/ know better. I hate to say it but Maybe she was a plant!

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

Apparently, she has already gotten those calls and emails. That was a big part of what drove her to leave the lunatic left behind.

(04-05-2023 11:49 AM)appst89 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

Apparently, she has already gotten those calls and emails. That was a big part of what drove her to leave the lunatic left behind.

That’s her excuse. No one flips after 5 months. This was planned.

(04-05-2023 11:51 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:49 AM)appst89 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

Apparently, she has already gotten those calls and emails. That was a big part of what drove her to leave the lunatic left behind.

That’s her excuse. No one flips after 5 months. This was planned.

That's your opinion. Mine is that she deserves a medal for managing to stay five months with those idiots.

She's been running as a D since 2008. More than enough time to put 2 & 2 together. She didn't start as a Democrat 5 months ago. Sorry.

(04-05-2023 11:51 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:49 AM)appst89 Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 11:32 AM)Marc Mensa Wrote:  She ran as a Democrat in a solidly blue district & then switched parties within 5 months… I’d expect she’s getting some difficult emails & calls.

Apparently, she has already gotten those calls and emails. That was a big part of what drove her to leave the lunatic left behind.

That’s her excuse. No one flips after 5 months. This was planned.

I understand the suspicion.

But in practice it's really, really tough to get nominated. Particularly in a district where the nomination guarantees election (solid R or solid D districts).

You have to ingratiate yourself with party members for years, and build an organization of volunteers (or very low paid workers) who work with you every day. And it's incredibly difficult to hide who you really are for years without giving big hints that will scare insiders/donors/volunteers away from you.

Watch: Chickens Come Home to Roost for NC Dems After Party Switcher Roasts Them During Presser

Quote:North Carolina Republicans in the state legislature undoubtedly are feeling really good this week after Rep. Tricia Cotham informed them that she was ready to formally switch from Democrat to Republican, effectively giving House Republicans a veto-proof majority against Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper, who has vetoed a record 76 bills during his time in office.

During a press conference Wednesday, Cotham officially announced her decision, and laid bare exactly why she no longer felt welcomed in the North Carolina Democratic party:

“The modern-day Democratic party has become unrecognizable to me, and to so many others around this state and this country. The party wants to villainize anyone who has free thought, free judgment, has solutions, who wants to get to work to better our state. Not just sit in a meeting and have a workshop after a workshop, but really work with individuals to get things done. Because that’s what real public servants do. If you don’t do exactly what Democrats want you to do, they will try to bully you, they will try to cast you aside.”

Watch:

Cotham also said her Democratic colleagues in the House started “vicious rumors” about her mother in recent weeks, and that left-wing special interest groups allegedly were messaging her young son.

Predictably, not only are the Usual Suspects in the NC media already fretting over what this supposedly means for women’s rights …

But Democratic legislators are melting down as well, and telling some pretty tall tales along the way, like Democrat Rep. Chaz Beasley:

Except yeah, it is kinda “it,” and there are receipts to prove how often Cooper bullies Democrats who don’t fall in line:

Carolina Journal spelled it out in more detail:

Why would Roy Cooper primary such an impactful Democrat legislator like [now-former State. Sen.] Kirk deViere? The only clear answer to objective observers on the outside is that deViere put policy over politics and pragmatism over partisanship — something Cooper cannot have in his version of a “big tent.”

Cooper and the Democrats are no strangers to playing these sorts of games against moderate lawmakers who seek to engage in bipartisanship. Cooper allegedly made similar threats before on the state budget in 2019, which of course, he then acted on against deViere in 2022.

Cooper also strong-armed Democrats in the state legislature during his time as the state’s Attorney General, effectively keeping a compromise bill on the controversial HB2 “bathroom bill” from happening in the summer of 2016 because he wanted to continue to use it as a wedge issue in his election fight against then-Gov. Pat McCrory ®:

On Your Side Investigates has confirmed a group of up to ten House Democrats had originally signed on to support the bill. A number of people in that group changed their mind, though, after receiving calls from Cooper.

“We started losing Democrats,” the person involved in the negotiations said. “We were told Cooper was making personal phone calls to the ten Democratic members saying if they wanted to be on the team in November they needed to vote against the bill.”

Joel Ford, a former Democratic state senator, also weighed in when attacked over his previous and very public disagreements with the North Carolina Democratic party:

To reiterate a point I made Tuesday, Cotham’s House District is reliably blue, so her switching sides here even as someone who was known as a “moderate” Democrat may ultimately not serve her well in the next election. That’s something for those calling on her to resign or who are otherwise accusing her of “playing politics” to keep in mind as this all plays out.

That, and the fact that she is from a family of prominent Democrats.

“Tricia Cotham has voted in Dem primaries since at least 2005. She was married to the Chairman of the NC Democratic Party. Her mom is a Democrat county commissioner & DNC delegate. Her dad was chairman of the Mecklenburg Democrats. She was not secretly a Republican,” Carolina Journal’s Alex Baltzegar observed.

But even with all that in mind, shouldn’t she be able to identify as whoever she wants to be? Your rules, Democrats:

Simply put, the intolerance of the North Carolina Democratic party to dissenting views and their mindless obedience to wokeness is pushing people including state legislators away. And sadly (for NC Dems), there may be more switches coming.

House Speaker Tim Moore said during Cotham’s presser that “She’s not the only Democrat that we’ve had great conversations with,” with the insinuation clear that more bad news for North Carolina Dems could be right around the corner.

Couldn’t be happening to a more deserving bunch, bless their hearts.

I guess this is what it takes for Reps to win in this day and age. I'm not worried though, it's not sustainable. Just putting more of the burden on voters to vet their candidates thoroughly. In my recent memory, this person joins Sinema and Gabbard as bought and paid for plants inside the Democratic Party

(04-05-2023 12:00 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  I guess this is what it takes for Reps to win in this day and age. I'm not worried though, it's not sustainable. Just putting more of the burden on voters to vet their candidates thoroughly. In my recent memory, this person joins Sinema and Gabbard as bought and paid for plants inside the Democratic Party

From the article I just posted:

Quote:“Tricia Cotham has voted in Dem primaries since at least 2005. She was married to the Chairman of the NC Democratic Party. Her mom is a Democrat county commissioner & DNC delegate. Her dad was chairman of the Mecklenburg Democrats. She was not secretly a Republican,” Carolina Journal’s Alex Baltzegar observed.

"If you don't do exactly what the Democrats want you to do they will try to bully you."

There ya go.

Free thought is forbidden... Do as the elites tell you... Shut up and fall in line...

Typical democrats.

(04-05-2023 12:00 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  I guess this is what it takes for Reps to win in this day and age. I'm not worried though, it's not sustainable. Just putting more of the burden on voters to vet their candidates thoroughly. In my recent memory, this person joins Sinema and Gabbard as bought and paid for plants inside the Democratic Party

People coming to their senses and leaving the lunatic left behind. It's a start. There will be more as the left continues to reveal just how unhinged it really is.

(04-05-2023 12:02 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

(04-05-2023 12:00 PM)Kruciff Wrote:  I guess this is what it takes for Reps to win in this day and age. I'm not worried though, it's not sustainable. Just putting more of the burden on voters to vet their candidates thoroughly. In my recent memory, this person joins Sinema and Gabbard as bought and paid for plants inside the Democratic Party

From the article I just posted:

Quote:“Tricia Cotham has voted in Dem primaries since at least 2005. She was married to the Chairman of the NC Democratic Party. Her mom is a Democrat county commissioner & DNC delegate. Her dad was chairman of the Mecklenburg Democrats. She was not secretly a Republican,” Carolina Journal’s Alex Baltzegar observed.

If you've ever read any of his posts before, you know that little things like facts don't matter to him.