JohnButts@JBMedia - Reports:
Raleigh, N.C. — Gov. Pat McCrory is using Facebook to call on lawmakers to sustain two vetoes he issued earlier this month.
"Contact your representative, Julia Howard @ 919-733-5904 who represents Davie and Forsyth counties and tell her to sustain my vetoes of fiscally irresponsible & job-killing legislation: HB 392 & HB 786," reads one of more than a dozen posts the governor made to his official Facebook account Tuesday night.
McCrory vetoes included a bill that would require drug testing for welfare recipients, and a measure that would extend the amount of time farm workers could be employed without undergoing a background check.
McCrory has said he vetoed the drug testing bill because of a potential constitutional issue. The background check bill, he said, would open a loophole for people here illegally to take jobs away from North Carolinians.
When a governor vetoes a bill after the legislature has adjourned, he has 40 days to call the General Assembly back into session to try to override his veto or make adjustments to the measures in question. McCrory has still not called the legislature back and his 40-day window ends shortly after Labor Day.
Senior Republican leaders have said over the past few weeks that sentiment is growing within the House Republican caucus to override McCrory's vetoes. More Info
Among those the governor is calling out on Facebook are House Finance Co-Chairwoman Julia Howard, R-Davie, House Finance Co-Chairman David Lewis, R-Harnett, Appropriations Chairman Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, Judiciary Chairman Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, and Republican Conference Leader Ruth Samuelson, R-Mecklenburg. http://www.wral.com/mccrory-uses-facebook-to-call-out-lawmakers/12799078/
