In an exchange on the Senate Floor, Senator Robinson accused me and my wife — who successfully homeschooled our children — of not being educators. Is it the @NCSenateDems position that homeschooling parents are not educators? #ncpol #ncga
@senpaulnewton
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Posts1,324
Engagement30.5K
Voting-record position0.245
CoverageFeb 3, 2020 to Feb 22, 2022
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Percentage-point difference between this legislator’s topic share and the party median. Bars left are under-indexed; bars right are over-indexed.
Most distinctive Uncategorized 31.6 pp below the party median
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Voice fingerprint. 14 topics shown on a symmetric scale from −31.6 pp to +31.6 pp. Most distinctive topic: Uncategorized, 31.6 pp below the party median.
Under-indexed Party median Over-indexed
- Uncategorized Under-indexed −31.6 pp
- Macroeconomics Over-indexed +14.5 pp
- Law and Crime Over-indexed +9.8 pp
- Government Operations Over-indexed +8.6 pp
- Education Over-indexed +8.6 pp
- Energy Over-indexed +5.6 pp
- Health Under-indexed −3.1 pp
- Civil Rights Over-indexed +2.1 pp
- Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce Over-indexed +1.4 pp
- Culture Under-indexed −1.1 pp
- International Affairs Under-indexed −0.8 pp
- Environment Under-indexed −0.7 pp
- Immigration Under-indexed −0.5 pp
- Agriculture Over-indexed +0.5 pp
Bars share a symmetric scale of ±31.6 pp. Showing 14 of 22 topics under the selected ordering.
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| Topic | Legislator share | Party median | Difference | Direction | Posts |
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| Uncategorized | 8.0% | 39.6% | −31.6 pp | Under-indexed | 106 |
| Macroeconomics | 18.0% | 3.5% | +14.5 pp | Over-indexed | 238 |
| Law and Crime | 13.7% | 4.0% | +9.8 pp | Over-indexed | 182 |
| Government Operations | 21.2% | 12.6% | +8.6 pp | Over-indexed | 281 |
| Education | 12.8% | 4.2% | +8.6 pp | Over-indexed | 169 |
| Energy | 6.3% | 0.8% | +5.6 pp | Over-indexed | 84 |
| Health | 1.1% | 4.2% | −3.1 pp | Under-indexed | 15 |
| Civil Rights | 6.2% | 4.1% | +2.1 pp | Over-indexed | 82 |
| Banking, Finance, and Domestic Commerce | 2.0% | 0.6% | +1.4 pp | Over-indexed | 26 |
| Culture | 0.3% | 1.4% | −1.1 pp | Under-indexed | 4 |
| International Affairs | 0.0% | 0.8% | −0.8 pp | Under-indexed | 0 |
| Environment | 0.0% | 0.7% | −0.7 pp | Under-indexed | 0 |
| Immigration | 0.0% | 0.5% | −0.5 pp | Under-indexed | 0 |
| Agriculture | 1.4% | 0.9% | +0.5 pp | Over-indexed | 18 |
| Defense | 1.3% | 1.7% | −0.4 pp | Under-indexed | 17 |
| Housing | 1.7% | 1.4% | +0.3 pp | Over-indexed | 23 |
| Transportation | 1.4% | 1.1% | +0.2 pp | Over-indexed | 18 |
| Unclassified | 0.0% | 0.2% | −0.2 pp | Under-indexed | 0 |
| Public Lands | 0.8% | 0.9% | −0.1 pp | Under-indexed | 10 |
| Social Welfare | 2.3% | 2.3% | +0.1 pp | Over-indexed | 31 |
| Labor | 1.2% | 1.2% | +0.0 pp | Over-indexed | 16 |
| Technology | 0.3% | 0.3% | −0.0 pp | Under-indexed | 4 |
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RT @RepCawthorn: Parents should never have less power than the government over their children. Parents know what is best for their family.
RT @DeAngelisCorey: BREAKING: North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed a budget including an expansion of funding students instead of syst…
Democrats claim that home educators are not educators. Why? Because they lack a government certificate. It is just this kind of ‘big government knows best’ attitude that will keep the home education & the school choice movement alive for generations to come! #ncpol
What an absolute insult, not only to my family, but to the large (and growing) home education community in North Carolina. Democrats want to control every single aspect of your life and here is more evidence of that truth. #ncpol #ncga https://t.co/If0T83IonK
RT @DeAngelisCorey: NEW POLL: 62% of likely North Carolina voters support their state's program that funds students instead of systems.
I signed on to support educational freedom and encourage my colleagues in the #NCGA to also sign on and all voters to pledge as well. Join the movement for educational freedom and choice and standing up for parental rights. #NCPOL https://t.co/sVFyfeiTk0 https://t.co/TX0PmSKEJP
RT @DeAngelisCorey: homeschooling parents are educators.
This is not March 2020. Despite the science, despite the overwhelmingly high vaccination rate among teachers, and despite the billions in covid readiness funding, teachers unions across the country are choosing not to teach. That cannot happen in NC. #ncpol
In less than three hours, a secret panel of three unidentified Court of Appeals judges was able to review nearly 1,000 pages challenging maps of 184 districts, read the entire “record,” and block candidate filing in every county in the state. #ncpol