Bo Hines, running for (NC-13), wants to get creative in imagining ways to restrict a woman's right to choose. He’s had to back off a little from his more strident positions before the primary, that included this: Abortion should be made illegal throughout the United States. No exceptions.
Now he has found a more reasonable, women friendly version, where just like Oz, the locals get to choose for you. It gets crazier by the day. Anyway, I just saw this story and wanted to illustrate it for you.
Josh Marshall, November 1, 2022
A week ago, everyone who mocking Mehmet Oz’s suggestion that decisions about abortion should be left to the woman, her doctor and “local political leaders.” Now we have a Republican House candidate who’s actually trying to get concrete about how this works in practice.
Bo Hines is a Madison Cawthorn-esque candidate who is the Republican nominee in North Carolina’s 13th congressional district. He’s Trump endorsed, with all you’d expect with that. But since getting the nomination he’s apparently been trying to come more towards the political center. Part of that has been trying to work out how the Oz proposal operates in practice.
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Raw Story — A North Carolina Republican congressional candidate floated a proposal to create a community review process that would determine whether survivors of rape and incest can get abortions.
Bo Hines, the GOP candidate for North Carolina's 13thCongressional District, wants to outlaw all abortions unless the mother's life is at risk.
"He wants victims of rape and incest to be allowed to get an abortion on a case-by-case basis through a community-level review process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government," local news outlet WRAL reported.
North Carolina's 13th congressional district
The thirteenth congressional district of North Carolina was re-established in 2002 after the state gained population in the 2000 United States census. Previously, the state had 13 districts from the first election following the 1810 United States census until the reapportionment following the 1840 United States census. From 2003 to 2013 the district included all of Person and Caswell counties as well as parts of Alamance, Granville, Guilford, Rockingham, and Wake counties. However, reapportionment after the 2010 census shifted the district more to the south and east. As a result, it lost its share of Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Person, and Rockingham counties. In place of those five counties, portions of Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Nash, Vance, Wayne, and Wilson counties were added. Less of Granville County and more of Wake County were also included.Wikipedia
TRUST FUND BABY — Bo Hines Has Big Madison Cawthorn Energy — And Might Win Republicans the House
Rolling Stone, TESSA STUART, 10/27/2022
Standing in his way — and fighting for Democrats' changes to keep control of Congress — is a guy named Wiley Nickel
ON THE LEFT is Wiley Nickel, a 46-year-old two-term state senator who worked as an advance man for Vice President Al Gore and President Obama. On the right: Bo Hines, a 27-year-old ex-college football player and former Senate intern with dreams of returning to Washington as a “MAGA warrior.” In the middle: control on the House of Representatives for the next two years.
Nickel and Hines are running against each other in a race to represent North Carolina’s 13th district. If every district in America were ranked in order from most Republican to most Democratic, it’s the one that would land dead-center. That makes it an almost laboratory-perfect setting for a race pitting a flame-throwing Trump-endorsed political neophyte against an experienced, if anodyne, Obama-era Democrat. In an election where Democrats are clinging to a thin majority, it is one of the races most likely to decide whether the country will continue its doom spiral, reliving the 2016 election every few years for the rest of our lives.
“If we can’t get a House majority of people who care about fair maps and ending gerrymandering, we may not have another chance,” Nickel says. He is the kind of guy who posts painfully earnest TikToks urging his followers to care about the latest Supreme Court case threatening the fabric of democracy. His opponent, Hines, is the kind that declares he was “inspired” by the “American patriots” who demanded “their voices be heard” on January 6th. Nickel says he wants to caucus with the neoliberal New Democrats; Hines is poised to join forces with GOP grandstanders Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz.
“Working for President Obama, I saw the power of a nation’s hope and a leader’s vision firsthand. But I also learned that hope and vision alone can only take you so far. We still need to fight hard for what we believe in”
- Democrat Wiley Nickel
Wiley Nickel (NC-13)
As a father, husband, attorney, state senator, and now candidate for Congress, Wiley Nickel has committed his life to public service and delivering for his neighbors in North Carolina.
At a young age, Wiley Nickel saw firsthand how a health care crisis can shake a family when he lost his father to lung cancer as a high schooler.
Wiley worked for two White House administrations — including for President Barack Obama, where he saw and learned from President Obama’s vision of hope and change for America. Wiley also learned that finding common ground and building coalitions is the way to get real results for hardworking American families.
Wiley with President Obama and VP Biden
From voting rights to a quality public education to reproductive health care, Wiley has fought tooth and nail for the issues important to North Carolinians. As a state senator, Wiley authored a bill to improve child literacy and to put a nurse in every public school, and he fought to pass bipartisan legislation to expand rural broadband.
