Roy Cooper
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310 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Aug
Roy Cooper’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and yeah i vetoed a record number of bills because they passed a lot of bad laws but at the same time i found ways to work with them i found ways to use my executive authority to help people we got medicaid expanded most southern states couldn't do that but we did it 725 000 people now have more health insurance
I got a Republican legislature to pass a law to get us to carbon zero in our power sector by 2050.
We were able to get all 99 of our hospitals to sign up for the largest medical debt relief program in the country.
People who have civil judgments against them because they didn't have health care insurance.
And you can't get a credit card.
You can't buy a house.
Sometimes you can't even qualify for rent.
So far, we've wiped away six and a half billion dollars in medical debt for more than two and a half million North Carolinians.
I had Mary come up to me and show me the letter.
She'd been writing a check for eighty dollars a month.
That was a big deal for her on a fixed income.
She showed me how that fifty four thousand had been wiped away.
It changed her life.
We need more people
in politics who want to do something rather than people in politics who want to be something and that everything they do is calculated toward gaining or maintaining their power.
I think people are sick of it.
It's time to get competent, decent people back into government who respect our Constitution, who believe in checks and balances in our democracy.
I believe our best days are ahead of us.
It's hard to believe right now with the destruction we've seen and with the people in charge like my opponent, Michael Whatley, who was chair of the RNC and who continues to support these horrible policies like the slush fund that
wants to pay out money to these January 6th rioters and insurrectionists to assaulted police officers.
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