{"id":12483,"date":"2025-06-25T21:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/?p=12483"},"modified":"2025-06-25T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:05:17","slug":"victory-for-eastern-nc-hb-442-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/victory-for-eastern-nc-hb-442-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"VICTORY FOR EASTERN NC: HB 442 IS DEAD\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9535ac9cd6276877b1310df5af157082\"><strong>&nbsp;VICTORY FOR EASTERN NC: HB 442 IS DEAD&nbsp;<\/strong><br><em>By Rep. Ed Goodwin, NC House of Representatives<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1c4e4f24331c92b89779cb87e6d6e653\">Today, we stood our ground\u2014and won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0647fc164fbf87809fc59498456b2fbf\">House Bill 442, hijacked in the Senate to include a reckless ban on shrimp trawling in inland and nearshore waters, is officially&nbsp;<strong>dead<\/strong>. Let me be clear: this was never about the environment. This was about power and politics\u2014about gutting a way of life without understanding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57f77caaec940e24a205d1ce8e468bba\">Down east, we don\u2019t back down when it comes to defending our people. We\u2019re talking about generations of honest, hard-working North Carolinians\u2014families who have fished these waters for centuries, feeding their communities and supporting our coastal economy. The Senate tried to sink them without so much as a conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e8401d21d3d4238238f1a0b67b78c2f7\">But we showed up. United. Loud. Relentless. And we sent a message:&nbsp;<strong>you do not trample over Eastern North Carolina.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2f1099258a6994c50833519835358c80\">I thank every single fisherman, advocate, and lawmaker who stood with us. We still have work to do to protect and rebuild our coastal industries, but for today\u2014<strong>faith, fight, and freedom won<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7b9f9c2c086a99c499543b594892748e\">God bless our watermen and the communities who support them.<br>\u2014Rep. Ed Goodwin, R-Chowan<br>#SaveOurShrimpers #DownEastStrong #NCHouse #DefendNCJobs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;VICTORY FOR EASTERN NC: HB 442 IS DEAD&nbsp;By Rep. Ed Goodwin, NC House of Representatives Today, we stood our ground\u2014and won. House Bill 442, hijacked in the Senate to include a reckless ban on shrimp trawling in inland and nearshore waters, is officially&nbsp;dead. Let me be clear: this was never about the environment. This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12483\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electedgoodwin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}