{"id":116224,"date":"2023-07-26T03:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T03:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116224"},"modified":"2023-07-26T03:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T03:05:18","slug":"who-will-be-the-next-speaker-of-the-nc-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=116224","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Who Will Be the Next Speaker of the NC House?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wataugawatch.net\/2023\/07\/who-will-be-next-speaker-of-nc-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">WataugaWatch<\/a>: &#8220;At the moment, the struggle to succeed Tim Moore as Republican Speaker of the NC House comes down to a contest between &#8220;slick&#8221; and &#8220;aw, shucks&#8221; &#8212; that is, a rivalry for the job between current Majority Leader John Bell (&#8220;aw, shucks!&#8221; from Wayne Co.) and slick Caldwell County lawyer Destin Hall, chair of the all-important House Rules Committee and the also very important Redistricting Committee. I\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.wataugawatch.net\/2023\/06\/who-is-john-bell.html\" target=\"_blank\">profiled<\/a>\u00a0Bell not so long ago; Hall is better known up here because of his redistricting shenanigans, which included his snatching Blue Ridge precinct, Watauga&#8217;s biggest precinct which has trended &#8220;blue,&#8221; for his own Caldwell County House district, thus safely diluting the Democratic vote &#8212; no threat to himself &#8212; while strengthening Ray Pickett&#8217;s hold on Dist. 93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hall is like a walking knife blade, as sleek and polished as rival John Bell is rumpled and scruffy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WataugaWatch: &#8220;At the moment, the struggle to succeed Tim Moore as Republican Speaker of the NC House comes down to a contest between &#8220;slick&#8221; and &#8220;aw, shucks&#8221; &#8212; that is, a rivalry for the job between current Majority Leader John Bell (&#8220;aw, shucks!&#8221; from Wayne Co.) and slick Caldwell County lawyer Destin Hall, chair of&#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-116224","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\/116224","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=116224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116225,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116224\/revisions\/116225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}