The thing about attacking political allies for their lack of purity is that sometimes they take it to heart. Tricia Cotham was elected as a Democrat to her second stint in the North Carolina Legislature last year. On Wednesday she joined the Republican caucus. The result is a GOP supermajority that will be a headache for Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.
“It became very clear to me early on in January that you better vote in line with everything Gov. Cooper tells you to do,” Ms. Cotham said at a news conference. “I have always been a freethinker, a woman of faith, a person of independent judgment and of common sense.” Because she worked across the aisle, she added, “I was considered a traitor, I was told. A spy. ‘Please don’t come to caucus. You’ll tell everything we know.’ That is a terrible mentality.”
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