State Sen. Kevin Corbin calls out “conspiracy theory junk” about unburied bodies and FEMA stealing money.

A Republican senator in the North Carolina legislature has issued a public plea for people to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the disaster recovery efforts in areas ravaged by flooding from Hurricane Helene.

In a Thursday afternoon Facebook post, state Sen. Kevin Corbin, who represents the state’s westernmost area, asked his followers for a favor: “Will you all help STOP this conspiracy theory junk that is floating all over Facebook and the internet about the floods in WNC.”

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    2 months ago

    Republicans come out and denounce these falsehoods

    lol don’t you know that once you go against the established hive-mind republican narrative, you’re officially a RINO

    this guy will be voted out immediately

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        other misguided quotes:

        hopefully their base will listen

        learn to work together as a country

        the entire republican ideology is about NOT working together, but blaming problems on people they don’t like and punishing them for it. this has been going on for years and years. we have republicans in the US congress saying democrats control the weather and intentionally wrecked WNC because it would hurt the republican vote

        there IS NO “working together” with these people, i hate to tell you

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          The majority Republican NC congress is the antithesis of the idea of working together for the public good.

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            indeed. the NC house and senate are both full-blown republican, and they can’t even agree with each other on a state budget

            absolutely fucking useless