Senator Mike Woodard on the delayed NC budget, pending veto overrides, and election law changes

Sen. Mike Woodard (Photo: NCGA)Sen. Mike Woodard (Photo: NCGA) If there’s been a dominant story during the 2023 state legislative session it’s been Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes and the revived ability that Republican lawmakers enjoy to override them — after having obtained supermajorities in both legislative houses as a result of the party switch of a longtime Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Tricia Cotham of Mecklenburg County. Daunting as this situation is for Democrats in the minority, however, their members continue to put up a spirited resistance on an array of key issues and recently NC Newsline caught up with one of the members who regularly leads that charge, State Senator Mike Woodard. And as Woodard (who announced right after our chat that he’s running for mayor of Durham this fall) told us, the debates he and his colleagues are having remain hugely important to our state’s future. The post Senator Mike Woodard on the delayed NC budget, pending veto overrides, and election law changes appeared first on NC Newsline.