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Roy Cooper
stated on August 24, 2023 in a veto statement:

GOP-authored elections bill “requires valid votes to be tossed out … if a computer rejects a signature.”

By Paul Specht • September 1, 2023
Roy Cooper
stated on May 4, 2023 in a video posted to Twitter:

Four North Carolina Republicans made “campaign promises” to protect reproductive rights

By Paul Specht • May 12, 2023
Roy Cooper
stated on August 4, 2021 in a press conference:

“North Carolina during this pandemic had among the lowest COVID-related deaths, as well as job losses per capita.”

By Paul Specht • August 20, 2021
Roy Cooper
stated on March 26, 2021 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:

“People don’t pretend to be someone else to go in and vote. You just don’t see that kind of fraud.”

By Paul Specht • April 5, 2021
Roy Cooper
stated on February 2, 2021 in a press conference:

Says North Carolina bill to require in-person learning is “stripping out some of the health protocols that are in place.”

By Paul Specht • February 5, 2021
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:

Says Dan Forest has “missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic."

By Paul Specht • October 30, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:

Says Dan Forest wants to use tax dollars “to help rich people send their kids to private school using vouchers.”

By Paul Specht • October 22, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:

Georgia has “almost 100,000 more (COVID-19) cases, almost twice as many deaths and almost 600 more nursing home deaths than North Carolina.”

By Paul Specht • October 15, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on August 13, 2020 in a press conference:

“In some of these other states, some of their deaths can be attributable to the fact that they were having a hard time getting an ICU bed or a ventilator to a patient.”

By Paul Specht • September 3, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on May 12, 2020 in a press conference:

“With retail, people are moving around and you don’t have as much a chance to spread the virus (as you do) when people are sitting or standing indoors” for long periods of time.

By Paul Specht • June 1, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on January 21, 2020 in a tweet:

Says a "court has ordered North Carolina to step up significantly its funding for education."

By Paul Specht • February 12, 2020
Roy Cooper
stated on February 25, 2019 in his State of the State address:

"Right now, four in 10 public schools in our state are at least 50 years old."

By Bill McCarthy • March 5, 2019
Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019:

Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."

By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019
Roy Cooper
stated on December 26, 2018 in a Facebook post:

A bill passed by GOP legislators "makes it harder to prosecute people and groups that violate campaign finance laws."

By Paul Specht • January 14, 2019
Roy Cooper
stated on May 30, 2018 in a tweet:

"One legislative Republican’s district gets almost all the school supply funding."

By Paul Specht • June 7, 2018
Roy Cooper
stated on November 30, 2017 in a blog:

Half of the proposed federal tax breaks "would go to the wealthiest 1 percent."

By Paul Specht • December 5, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on August 15, 2017 in Press release:

House Bill 330 "grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters."

By Paul Specht • August 16, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on July 28, 2017 in in a newsletter:

Last year, Democrats won nearly 50% of the vote, yet they hold only 38% of the seats in the state House and 30% of the seats in the state Senate.

By Paul Specht • August 9, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on January 25, 2017 in an address to education leaders:

Says North Carolina gives taxpayer dollars to private schools, but "we really don’t know what these schools are doing or how they are performing."

By Will Doran • February 2, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on January 19, 2017 in a speech to business leaders:

Says North Carolinians are "already paying for" Medicaid expansion, even though the state hasn’t expanded Medicaid.

By Will Doran • January 19, 2017
Roy Cooper
stated on October 11, 2016 in a debate:

"Gov. (Pat) McCrory took $500,000 directly out of the disaster relief fund. And you know what it’s for? House Bill 2."

By Will Doran • October 19, 2016
Roy Cooper
stated on October 11, 2016 in a debate:

"In 67 different ways, Governor McCrory has raised taxes on middle income families."

By Will Doran • October 14, 2016
Roy Cooper
stated on August 29, 2016 in posts on social media:

"Under Pat McCrory, (North Carolina) has fallen to 41st in teacher pay."

By Will Doran • September 2, 2016
Roy Cooper
stated on August 29, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Gov. Pat McCrory "tried to cut education funding to its lowest budget share in over 30 years."

By Will Doran • September 1, 2016
Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 in his education plan:

"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."

By Will Doran • March 21, 2016