On Wednesday, a vote in the North Carolina House made national headlines when The Washington Post reported that “North Carolina Republicans overrode a budget veto while Democrats were at a 9/11 ceremony,” in a story that featured damning accusations by Democrats that were initially presented uncritically.
“While most North Carolinians were remembering the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, the Republican leaders in the General Assembly took advantage of a half-empty House and voted to override the governor’s budget veto Wednesday morning,” the Post’s Lateshia Beachum reported Wednesday. The Republicans, Beachum reported, held the vote after allegedly promising Democrats that no vote would take place on the anniversary of the terror attacks.
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