(The Center Square) – Inviting a lightning rod of a senator to spur North Carolina Democrats at their annual state convention, highlighted by support of U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper, is reverberating again.
This time, the thunder is from the U.S. Treasury Department, just as the G20 Finance Track gathering was to open in Asheville.
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