Upcoming Legislative Days and a Revenue Plan

Several additional legislative days have been announced. Among them are:

HKonJ, People of Color Justice and Unity Legislative Day is Wednesday, May 23. The opening session will be at Raleigh’s First Baptist Church on Wilmington Street at 9:00. The group will then march to the General Assembly Building, where there will be a press conference at 11:00, followed by legislative visitations. For more info, contact HKonJ at 919-682-4700.

The Duke Center for Child and Family Policy has scheduled the NC Family Impact Seminar 2012 on Thursday, May 24, from 8:00 until 11:00 at the Legislative Auditorium in the General Assembly Building. For more information or to register, click here.

The NC Center for Voter Education and NC Coalition for Lobbying and Government Reform have scheduled Redistricting Reform Lobby Day for Tuesday, May 29 at the General Assembly starting at 9:15. More information will be available soon by clicking here.

Also, Together NC, a coalition of more than 120 groups, including the NC Council of Churches, today announced North Carolina’s Worth It, a revenue plan for the legislative session starting this week. For details of the plan, click here. For a report from NC Policy Watch, complete with photographic evidence that I was at the press conference, click here.

— George Reed, Executive Director