This course provides a peek inside the ‘sausage-making’ of gerrymandering, budgets, political campaigns and more. Learn how a bill is used to create law and policy and to identify the pressure points where grass roots efforts are most effective.?This presentation addresses questions about the effect of a super majority, the role of the media and lobbyists, and how things have changed in recent years.
Harry Payne represented New Hanover County in the North Carolina legislature for six terms and served as a policy advocate for working people before the General Assembly as Commissioner of Labor, Head of the Employment Security Commission and at a major non-profit.?