Republican North Carolina State Senator Thomas Cowart Goolsby and His Emotions

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Tell me what his words and actions show, about what kind of man Sen. Thom Goolsby, is ?

The fight is on, in North Carolina, to keep abortion legal-
Sen. Goolsby, who represents New Hanover County, supported the bill in 2011, that required women to receive ultrasound
examinations before getting an abortion. The trans-vaginal wand is one method of conducting an ultrasound exam.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/10/10/2402973/new-ad-slams-state-sen-thom-goolsby.html

Sen. Thom Goolsby, R-New Hanover NC-
Speaks about how he feels about the citizens who participate in protesting how the Tea Party harms the people in his community-

Citizens of NC made a decision to name the day they had picked for protesting- They named those days Moral Mondays.

What were they protesting ? Inequality, injustice.

June 10, 2013

The gist of Sen. Thom Goolsby's words-

Several hundred people – mostly white, angry, aged former hippies – appeared and screeched into microphones,
talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes. It was “liberal theater” at its best.

Never short on audacity, the Loony Left actually named their gathering “Moral Monday.” Between the screaming,
foot stomping and disjointed speeches, it appeared more like “Moron Monday.”

What have we come to expect from the words of a Tea Party Republican ?
Bob Geary observes a lie that Sen. Goolsby told-

[Senator] "Goolsby is wrong, of course, to say no other legislators were present for the protest. I recall
seeing several, including Mike Woodard, Pricey Harrison and Earline Parmley, and I'm sure there were others."

{Bob Geary comment- "But why let the facts stand in the way of a uninformed diatribe?"}

http://www.indyweek.com/citizen/arc...oolsby-on-the-protests-he-calls-moron-mondays

http://www.ncspin.com/2013/06/10/moron-monday-shows-radical-left-just-doesnt-get-it/

Sen. Goolsby's article-

The circus came to the State Capitol this week, complete with clowns, a carnival barker and a sideshow. The “Reverend” Barber was decked out like a prelate of the Church of Rome (no insult is meant to Catholics), complete with stole and cassock. All he was missing was a miter and the ensemble would have been complete.

Several hundred people – mostly white, angry, aged former hippies – appeared and screeched into microphones, talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes. It was “liberal theater” at its best. Just like having a honey bun and double espresso for breakfast, the impact of it all left the participants jittery and empty in the end.

Never short on audacity, the Loony Left actually named their gathering “Moral Monday.” Between the screaming, foot stomping and disjointed speeches, it appeared more like “Moron Monday.” The gathering was supposed to influence legislators. However, no one thought to bring out any senate or house member from either party.

The gathering was a field day for the Raleigh press corps who came out in large numbers for the extravaganza. In a carefully orchestrated parade, photographers and videographers walked backwards as Barber and his minions strolled into an empty General Assembly Building to voice more complaints and engage in several rounds of sing-along. Even more press showed up to document the standard-bearers of liberalism who were politely arrested by General Assembly Police and escorted away well before session started. These “brave souls” can now claim hero status for all the courage they showed by standing up against the Radical Right.

Where were the protesters when the Democrats were bankrupting North Carolina? Just three years ago, North Carolina was in a deep crisis. The treasury was empty, with a multi-billion-dollar deficit. The state health care plan was bankrupt. The state retirement plan was underfunded by hundreds of millions of dollars. A multi-billion-dollar debt was owed to the federal government for money loaned to the state during the Great Recession for unemployment benefits. On top of everything, before getting roundly kicked out by the voters, Democrat leaders managed to raise North Carolina’s taxes to the highest in the Southeast, borrowing every dollar possible.

For over 140 years, Democrats had an almost total lock on power in Raleigh. It was not until the 2010 elections that the GOP had ever controlled both chambers in the General Assembly. Even then, they had to contend with Democrat Gov. Beverly Perdue who fought every commonsense reform brought forward. The Republicans finally consolidated their power with overwhelming wins in the 2012 election season where they took the Governor’s office, as well as many more seats in the NC House and Senate.

Once ensconced in power, the pro-growth, commonsense Republicans went to work like the business people they were. Government waste was cut, a billion-dollar tax cut was enacted and the budget was balanced. The state’s retirement plan was fully funded and the state health plan was made solvent. A responsible repayment schedule was arranged with the federal government to pay off the unemployment debt in record time. In other words, the sinking ship of this state was righted.

You might be wondering, “What is the left complaining about?” A better question is “What are they not complaining about?” Apparently, even in the light of the overwhelming GOP election victories, they believe that Republicans had no mandate to fix what the Democrats broke. Somehow, the new leadership is supposed to print money on a magical press and spend our way into prosperity.

Even Democrat pollsters say these protests are hurting their party and its long-term plan to recover power. Regular people, i.e. voters, tend to shy away from the real radical fringe. Nonetheless, the old hippies have found a new hobby and have once again fallen in love with the sound of their own voices. Too bad they were not around to help when they were needed.

A citizen counter's with a reply-

The Moral Monday crowd thinks their government should protect the safety and happiness of women as well as men,
gays as well as straights, blacks and Hispanics as well as whites. And, of course, the working poor as well as the
supposedly job-creating rich who've done so poorly creating jobs.

It's like the Boston Tea Party—they object to what the Republicans are doing, but fundamentally they object to the fact
that the Republicans are as unrepresentative of the state's population now as England's Parliament and King George
were of the American colonies.
- Bob Geary

http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/texas-and-nc-fight-against-oppression/Content?oid=3667543

David Fellerath uses quotes as a counter to Sen. Goolsby-

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of
man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious
the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

 

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More about "Moral Mondays:

Blake: Moral Mondays falling on defensive ears

Jul. 1, 2013

When I stepped onto the bus filled with Moral Monday protesters in the Innsbruck Mall parking lot last week, the paraphernalia* these activists had at the ready was pretty striking.

Knitting projects, homemade oatmeal cookies in Tupperware containers and a great number of sun hats, just to name a few.

It was clear from the number of fanny packs alone that this was not another incarnation of Occupy Wall Street, though that seems to be the unspoken level of seriousness with which legislators are taking the rallies now in their ninth week in Raleigh.

The Moral Monday protests, led by the state’s NAACP chapter, have drawn thousands to the lawn of the General Assembly building, people outraged by a range of policies the state’s GOP-controlled legislature has passed and proposed this year.

The protests have also included one of the most significant displays of civil disobedience in recent memory for North Carolina, with close to 700 people taken away in zip-tie handcuffs for failing to disperse and “singing loud songs” in the building’s rotunda.

Thousands of North Carolinians — including the knitting legions of at least 200 from Asheville — have shown up in their front yard every Monday for nine weeks now. Yet their peaceable pleas continue to fall on mostly deaf and defensive ears, with state Republicans’ responses ranging from general disinterest to total disgust.

Gov. Pat McCrory waited five weeks to acknowledge the protests, before saying that he is not interested in meeting with the group, whom he called “outsiders.” Police records show that around 98 percent of those arrested have been North Carolina residents.

I called McCrory’s office Monday to see if he had agreed to meet with protesters yet — if the thousands of people gathering blocks from his office every week warranted a quick chat.

A spokesman in his office passed along a brief statement from McCrory, saying, “Unlawful demonstrations should be unacceptable. But lawful demonstrations we welcome. That is the great part of our democracy.”

Indeed, that is the great part of our democracy — that part where 3,000 people show up at the state legislature’s front door and lawfully demonstrate. The even greater part, though, is when lawmakers actually listen.

“I had one question, though,” the spokesman also said via email. “Could you please let me know who the leader of Moral Monday is so I can accurately answer your question?”

A quick Google search for “Moral Monday” lists about a dozen news articles from local and national media outlets — from the Raleigh News and Observer to Time to the Huffington Post and even Fox News — the governor could take his pick.

All of these stories identify the Rev. William Barber as the group’s leader.

He is also easy to spot as the gentleman speaking into a megaphone every week in the rotunda of the General Assembly building and as the man quoted in more than two dozen releases from the state NAACP.

But this tone of “Moral what?” seems to be the party line in Raleigh, and most Buncombe legislators are toeing it as hard as the governor himself.

When fellow Citizen-Times reporter Jon Ostendorff and I approached Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Hendersonville, after last week’s protests, he threw up his hands and said, “We’ve been here, what? 80-90 days? And you come cover this crap?” before stalking off into his office.

Rep. Nathan Ramsey, R-Buncombe, was much more cordial but had nothing to say about the protests, and didn’t indicate they would affect his decisions in any way.

Rep. Tim Moffit, R-Buncombe, said that he did speak with protesters and has returned calls to several who left messages Monday, which is more than many legislators can say.

“I think it’s good for the system to have people engaged,” Moffitt said. “The folks that came here yesterday, and I don’t always agree on every issue, but we do have common ground.”

When asked what that common ground was, though, Moffit said, “See, now you’ve trapped me. Or I trapped myself. I’m not going to go there.”

A conservative aide watching the indoor demonstrations last Monday called the group, “Silly,” and said it was “just Occupy Wall Street all over again, but louder.”

I covered the Occupy Asheville movement closely from the first rally the group held in Pritchard Park and watched with the rest of the city and nation in frustration as the movement failed to provide enough clarity on their issues to even ask for any specific change, much less achieve it.

The group had the nation’s attention in a way that no activist organization has in years or even decades. But its mission was so vague and its demands were so tenuous, lawmakers had to write the activists off as just another ineffectual group of protesters who wanted to protest.

Occupy cried wolf,** and the hangover has been a deeper skepticism for any mass protests thereafter.

But this is not another Occupy, and these are not strictly people protesting to protest.

Last week we watched as an Asheville couple, 77 and 79 years old, held hands and nearly wept as the crowd inside the General Assembly rotunda sang “Leave our water free” to the tune of “We Shall Overcome.”

We watched as officers zip-tied the hands of a 92-year-old woman who marched with Martin Luther King Jr., a woman who says she had to recite the preamble to the Constitution in order to register to vote when she was 21.

We also watched as capitol police lined up in strategic rows to block photographers from shooting these arrests, refused to move after repeated, polite requests and pulled several protesters into a small alcove out of the media’s line of vision.

Of course, that’s a much subtler tactic than that of the conservative Civitas Institute, which launched a website that shows the mugshots, profiles, employment, affiliations among others, of those arrested during the protests.

The website even includes a “Pick a Protester” game, in which viewers can guess which of three mugshots shows a pastor, a retired person and so forth.

The think tank is funded about 94 percent by the family foundation that Art Pope, McCrory’s budget director, and bills itself as “North Carolina’s Conservative Voice.”

Of course lawmakers shouldn’t be expected to to heed everything — or even anything — the thousands of constituents demanding their attention have asked for. Holding a sign and singing spirituals does not a perfect policy make — and Occupy protesters proved that in recent years.

But as our governor so aptly pointed out, this is the great part of our democracy. And it’s so much better when it isn’t ignored.

* No, no, not that kind of paraphernalia.

** The wolf is real, ma'am, and it crept a foot closer while you were writing this.

 

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I have thought it over. I did not choose the title for this thread, carefully. My focus was on what he said.

Thom Goolsby is an attorney, a law professor and a state senator for Wilmington, NC What is his focus ?

Winning. What is the focus of all the Right Wing organizations? Winning.

How would anyone interpret the looks on the faces of the men, who took part in the deception ?

The were winning. It did not matter how it looked, to the rest of the world. It did not matter, when someone told the truth of the matter.

They wear a false mask of emotion, when they speak to the public. Their victims wear the truth of what they feel. What they fear.

Senator Thomas Goolsby was willing to say these words in public-

"The laws that were enacted put safeguards in to protect patients."
"Physicians are required to perform surgical procedures."
"The Department of Health and Human Services is developing guidelines for safe clinics."
"We've got numerous violations in our state."
"The bill overall is not only about protecting patients' rights, but Constitutional rights."

http://www.wwaytv3.com/2013/07/03/mccrory-levels-criticism-after-nc-senate-passes-abortion-rules

The truth of the matter, is much more complicated. If you do not know the whole story, the statements appear to be acceptable.

The Republican men and their allies knew what would happen, when they walked into the courtroom that day.

They would win. They had planned an ambush together. Are robbers criminals ? Do robbers wear masks ?

The masks came off, when they won what they wanted. They could not hide what they really are. Criminals.

A rape victim, a molested child, a family member of one who was murdered by Whitey Bulger, would know the look on their faces-

The arrogance. The sneer. The self- satisfaction. The gloating. The sarcasm. The cruel laugh of a predator. We win. We betrayed you.