people or rolling back the earned income tax credit or pushing the voter suppression law that we re seeing now that s the worst in the country in north carolina, all of that, you see the money imprint and the handprint imprint and the philosophical imprint of either art pope or groups he has backed in such a wrongful way. and that s why we re fighting. do you think that people in north carolina broadly understand the connection between that agenda that you just described and the network of discount stores that have made the pope family so wealthy over all these years? do people already know the connection between those po policies no. and those stores? they don t. no. that s why we re doing these informational pickets. now, we hope in this season of christmas and hanukkah, his own conscience we ve actually asked to meet with him that he would change. we have to believe in the possibility of redemption. we ve shared with him that it s against our greatest moral values, w
pushing the voter suppression law that we re seeing now that s the worst in the country in north carolina, all of that, you see the money imprint and the handprint imprint and the philosophical imprint of either art pope or groups he has backed in such a wrongful way. and that s why we re fighting. do you think that people in north carolina broadly understand the connection between that agenda that you just described and the network of discount stores that have made the pope family so wealthy over all these years? do people already know the connection between those policies no. and those stores? they don t. no. that s why we re doing these informational pickets. now, we hope in this season of christmas and hanukkah, his own conscience we ve actually asked to meet with him that he would change. we have to believe in the possibility of redemption. we ve shared with him that it s against our greatest moral values, we ve talked about scripture of woe to those who use their
promote policies that are adverse to their lives and diametrically opposed to their future is just untenable. what we have seen with art pope, you listed all those numbers $50 million over the last decade, $3.5 million since 2010 through 2012, millions of dollars, either him or his family or groups that he influences used to promote the most extreme policies. and you know, you mentioned about the 2010 takeover, but he actually was a part of the redistricting plan that led to that takeover which produced the most race-based redistricting plan we ve seen since the 19th century. rachel, everywhere we look, whether it s denying unemployment to 170,000 people or medicaid expanded to 500,000 people or rolling back the earned income tax credit or pushing the voter suppression law that we re seeing now that s the worst in the country in north carolina, all of that, you see the money imprint and the