District 50: Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain Counties

December 14, 2017

Dear Senator Davis:

Perhaps relations between the two political parties would improve if their leaders were to apply the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have others do unto you.  Please ask your Republican colleagues on the judiciary committees how they would respond if they were the minority party: if Democrats barred them from meetings to change the law for selecting state judges, what would they be telling the press?

We are indignant that a North Carolina General Assembly group is meeting in secret, excluding all Democrats and reporters as well, in violation of our individual rights as citizens to know what our elected officials are doing.

We are even more indignant that the Republican supermajority has been holding those meetings to change the process for selecting state judges to appointment by the NCGA.  It is an insult to all the people of North Carolina that NCGA Republicans are stealing individual voters’ power to weigh the merits of candidates for judgeships.

We expect you to do your duty to protect North Carolinians from this flagrant, un-American power-grab, which takes away every voter’s rights and freedoms as individual citizens to elect the most qualified people for judgeships.

We would appreciate a reply telling us what you are doing to keep this despicable action.  Please do not write to rationalize taking voting power from citizens because we have done research enough to know that it is an untenable position.

Stephen B. and Mary Jane Curry

Waynesville