DEMOCRATS IN NC LEGISLATURE CONVENE BUDGET VOTE DURING COLUMBUS DAY CELEBRATIONS

This picture (above) is awful in many ways.

(Raleigh, NC) In what critics are calling vengeful political gamesmanship, the Democratic members of North Carolina's legislative bodies held a budget vote while their Republican colleagues attended Columbus Day celebrations. This comes just weeks after House Republicans used similar tactics to pass budget measures during 9/11 Remembrance Ceremonies.
"It's just awful!" commented Franklin Hogarth, a Republican from Bunn, NC. "These people have no decency. Today is supposed to be about a plucky white European ignoring the humanity of an entire continent of people. If you can't celebrate that without worrying that someone's going to take advantage of you, well, I mean, what kind of world do we live in?"
Another House Republican, Rod Statler of Barncomb, NC had similar things to say, "If the Democrats want political gamesmanship, we'll give them political gamesmanship. We'll gerrymander the district lines so badly it'll look like someone put the congressional district map in a blender. We'll falsify ballots. We'll pass voter ID laws. We'll take away early voting."
Representative Statler then got back into his time machine and went back to before those things had already happened.
Democrats were more measured with their explanations of what had happened. Responding to the Republican reaction, Gennifer Vorhees of Crispin, NC said, "Look, we didn't actually plan any of this. We just couldn't believe that anyone would actually go to a Columbus Day event. I mean, yeah, they used to teach about him when I was in school, but in 2019!? Come on. The fact that not just one, but a majority of House Republicans were at these events - no one could have predicted that. In any sane world, showing up at an event that commemorated a mass murderer would be political suicide. Why would we plan on them doing that!?"
Mrs. Vorhees could not respond to further questions, as she was driving her son to a private Christian school event where he played Noah in a theatre production.