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Meadows move to depose speaker fractures N.C. delegation

By Dan Way/Carolina Journal, Published: July 31, 2015

RALEIGH — U.S. Rep. Walter Jones, R-3rd District, is a staunch supporter of the efforts of fellow North Carolinian Mark Meadows (11th District) to unseat House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio. Jones says Boehner is out of touch with Republican Party principles, rules by strong-arming members and parceling out campaign funds to favorites from his political action committee and is afflicted with pettiness. But the rest of North Carolina's congressional delegation is far from united on the second-term representative's tactical maneuver to depose the speaker this week.

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