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WUNCPolitics Podcast: A Conversation With Rob Schofield And Becki Gray

WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016
WUNC
WUNCPolitics Podcast: April 29, 2016

Democrats suing Republican legislative leaders over a law canceling judicial primaries this year subpoenaed records from the North Carolina GOP, which, this week, turned up memos outlining the state Republican Party's strategy targeting political opponents.

On this week's episode of the WUNCPolitics podcast, Rob Schofield, executive director of NC Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, senior vice president of the John Locke Foundation, assess the significance of the disclosure. They also discuss house lawmakers' efforts to address North Carolina's shortage of school psychologists and mental health counselors as well as the state's ranking in terms of teacher pay.WUNC Politics Reporter Rusty Jacobs talks with Rob Schofield, executive director of NC Policy Watch, and Becki Gray, senior vice president of the John Locke Foundation, in the latest episode of the WUNCPolitics Podcast.

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Rusty Jacobs is a politics reporter for WUNC. Rusty previously worked at WUNC as a reporter and substitute host from 2001 until 2007 and now returns after a nine-year absence during which he went to law school at Carolina and then worked as an Assistant District Attorney in Wake County.
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