North Carolina Sen. Tillis Censured at State GOP Convention Over Votes for Progressive Policies
By Becca Lower | 9:30 PM on June 10, 2023 There have been disturbing signs for a while that Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) was starting to become something of a burr under the saddle for many in the base of the Republican Party, including a failed attempt at a bipartisan immigration bill in late 2022 with Independent Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, which my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell rightly condemned in December.
But, there were other warning signs about Tillis, including an “aye” vote on a 2021 gun control bill, then more recently, 2022’s The Respect for Marriage Act—which you might remember was the progressive wing of the Democrat Party’s pro-LGBTQ push to codify same-sex marriage. JOO wrote:
Tillis is not planning on running for re-election, and rumor has it that he plans to make a run for North Carolina governor when his senate term is up in 2026. So, Tillis has been playing “Senator bipartisan” on bills such as The Respect for Marriage Act, which was signed into law by Joe Biden on Tuesday, as well as the ill-conceived Safer Communities Act, the gun control legislation bill signed into law last Summer.
That brings us to the present, where the likelihood of Tillis gaining the support of Republicans in his state to run for the governor’s mansion appears to have evaporated. Members of the Republican Party of North Carolina are gathered this weekend in Greensboro for their annual convention. And one of the agenda items was to official let Tillis know his actions in the Swamp have been noted by the GOP of the Old North State.
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