Go, Roy Cooper

One of the things that needs to happen now is for the Democratic Party to pick a vice presidential candidate. A name that's being floated is my own governor Roy Cooper's. Now, I despise Roy Cooper. He governs as if he were deeply hostile to the western, mountainous part of the state, its culture and its heritage. (This is described in the article as "a moderate Southern leader.")

For example, one of the executive orders he has signed forbids the state DOT from maintaining right of ways or roads to private cemeteries. In the mountains, there are very many of these as hundreds of years of families' burials on ground within walking distance of homes and churches produced a vast quantity. In fact there's one within easy walking distance of my house, near where a preacher's cabin used to be. It used to be that, once a year when the church wanted to have a 'decoration day' for the cemetery -- and every year, the local churches tend to hold one for each of the many cemeteries on different Sundays -- the state would do one day of maintenance to make sure the way was passable. These decoration days are an important part of the local mountain culture in this part of Appalachia, but the governor decided that this traditional support would be eliminated so he could spend still more money down East where the cities are.

The thought of being governed by Kamala Harris and Roy Cooper is even less happy than the thought of being governed by Kamala Harris alone. 

However, as the article points out, this would tend to take him out of the state a lot; and it would make the Lieutenant Governor, who is a good guy, the acting governor. I'm hoping this might be a down payment on that same fellow becoming the actual governor following the upcoming election. 

So, you know, if it happens that he is chosen there's a definite silver lining.