Did Governor Roy Cooper violate federal law by extorting $58 million "under color of official right" to benefit himself
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 4:10 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, is worried $92 million from a national Volkswagen consent decree over Clean Air Act violations might get tangled up in another separation-of-powers showdown between Gov. Roy Cooper and the General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 @ 12:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last week of March could be a busy one for the Cooper administration.
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 8:46 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Dean Arp, R-Union, said Gov. Roy Cooper created a slush fund 10 times larger than actual mitigation costs by preying on vulnerable energy utilities seeking approval of a state permit to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Friday, March 9th, 2018 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper committed an unforced error by circumventing the General Assembly and creating a constitutionally questionable $57.8 million Atlantic Coast Pipeline fund, political observers and legislators say
Published: Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 @ 12:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The exchange of letters between legislative leaders and Gov. Roy Cooper over the Atlantic Coast Pipeline continued Friday as lawmakers expressed exasperation with a response provided a day earlier by the governor's chief of staff
Published: Sunday, March 4th, 2018 @ 8:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Little fanfare surrounded the state Department of Environmental Quality's most recent decision to issue an air quality permit connected with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 @ 7:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Department of Environmental Quality issued a vital water permit Friday advancing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, but environmentalists immediately criticized Gov. Roy Cooper for signing off on the approval
Published: Tuesday, February 27th, 2018 @ 1:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper insisted $57.8 million from energy companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was a voluntary contribution, but said at a news conference he doesn't know whose idea it was originally to seek the money he planned to distribute
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2018 @ 4:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The $57.8-million discretionary fund the Atlantic Coast Pipeline operators planned to pay to an escrow Gov. Roy Cooper would control was in fact negotiated between the pipeline's operators and a series of private parties
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 2:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Civitas Institute has filed a state ethics complaint against Gov. Roy Cooper, seeking a ruling and possible investigation into questions of his handling of $57.8 million from a utility coalition building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Published: Thursday, February 22nd, 2018 @ 2:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The most recent response from Gov. Roy Cooper to legislative leaders about a questionable $57.8 million funding arrangement with the operators of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline might lead to formal demands for information from the Cooper administration
Published: Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 @ 6:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House passed House Bill 90 on Tuesday, Feb. 13, commandeering a controversial $58 million discretionary fund Gov. Roy Cooper created with developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and redirecting the money to education
Published: Monday, February 19th, 2018 @ 11:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican, urged the General Assembly not to spend any money from a fund negotiated by his Democratic successor, Roy Cooper, and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline operators, saying the process for securing the money was tainted
Published: Monday, February 19th, 2018 @ 1:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Constitutional questions persist about the murky $57.8 million deal between Atlantic Coast Pipeline operators and Gov. Roy Cooper
Published: Saturday, February 17th, 2018 @ 5:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the North Carolina Senate recently passed a bill with several moving parts - a newly reconstituted State Board of Elections, a rebuff of Gov. Roy Cooper’s attempt to evade legislative control of state revenue, and a multi-year fix to a funding dispute about class size
Published: Wednesday, February 14th, 2018 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ford Porter, spokesperson for Governor Cooper, released the following statement today on legislative Republicans ACP hypocrisy
Published: Monday, February 12th, 2018 @ 7:23 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper spent much of his first 13 months in office defending the venerated principle of separation of powers
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 8:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now Gov. Cooper confirms that his intention for the $58 million extortion “voluntary contribution” made in exchange for the approval of permits to allow the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to begin construction will be exclusively his slush fund.
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 3:58 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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State Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, said if the utility companies building the Atlantic Coast Pipeline voluntarily contributed $57.8 million to the state as Gov. Roy Cooper claims, they better not try to recoup the money through rate increases tied to construction costs
Published: Thursday, February 8th, 2018 @ 1:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Responding to questions from the General Assembly's senior nonpartisan staff, officials from Gov. Roy Cooper's budget office said a $57.8 million agreement Cooper made with the operators of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a "voluntary contribution" that will be distributed by a yet-to-be-named board
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 @ 3:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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On its face, the agreement between the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Commonwealth of Virginia looks similar to the deal the pipeline operators signed with Gov. Roy Cooper
Published: Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 @ 11:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Is a financial agreement between the governor of North Carolina and a private party legal just because the governor says so?
Published: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 @ 10:52 am
By: Governor's Office
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Roy Cooper is an experienced and capable politician. So far, his approval ratings are fine
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 10:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina will work toward a renewable energy future and rural economic development with the establishment of a new fund, Governor Roy Cooper said Friday
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I think the administration of Gov. Roy Cooper favors the construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile project connecting natural-gas generation in West Virginia to natural-gas consumers in Virginia and North Carolina
Published: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018 @ 2:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline cuts a 600-mile underground swath through three states, beginning in Harrison County, West Virginia
Published: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018 @ 3:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline will bring hundreds of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity to North Carolina.
Published: Thursday, September 4th, 2014 @ 12:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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