{"id":111225,"date":"2023-04-03T00:31:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111225"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:31:16","slug":"nc-state-senator-files-potentially-legacy-defining-bill-to-ban-participation-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111225","title":{"rendered":"NC State Senator Files Potentially Legacy Defining Bill to Ban Participation Trophies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wataugawatch.net\/2023\/04\/nc-senator-your-untalented-children-get.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watauga Watch<\/a>: &#8220;NC Senator Tim Moffitt has the solution for keeping our school children safe: Ban participation trophies. Not making this up. Yesterday, Moffitt filed\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncleg.gov\/Sessions\/2023\/Bills\/Senate\/PDF\/S430v0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">S430<\/a>, &#8220;Eliminate Participation Trophies,&#8221; which would actually prohibit local governments from petting their un-athletic kids &#8230; because the NCGOP is all about small government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not an April Fool&#8217;s joke.Samantha Campbell tweeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimMoffitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@TimMoffitt<\/a>&nbsp;The world is a literal dumpster fire, gun shot wounds are the NUMBER 1 KILLER of children and teens, and YOU are worried about PARTICIPATION TROPHIES?? You have no clue. Are you tone deaf on purpose or simply THAT moronic?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Moffitt represents Henderson, Polk, and Rutherford counties in the Senate. Moffitt had been a member of the NC House representing a Buncombe County district. He was defeated by Brian Turner in 2014 and subsequently moved his center of operations to Henderson, and after Chuck McGrady retired, Moffitt got appointed to fill out his unexpired term. In 2022 he jumped to the Senate seat he now occupies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watauga Watch: &#8220;NC Senator Tim Moffitt has the solution for keeping our school children safe: Ban participation trophies. Not making this up. Yesterday, Moffitt filed\u00a0S430, &#8220;Eliminate Participation Trophies,&#8221; which would actually prohibit local governments from petting their un-athletic kids &#8230; because the NCGOP is all about small government. Not an April Fool&#8217;s joke.Samantha Campbell tweeted:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111226,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111225\/revisions\/111226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}