Source: WRAL, 1/16/17


State Sen. Bill Cook, a Republican from Beaufort County, may have set the speed record for a politician stabbing his constituents in Perquimans and Pasquotank counties in the back. Within hours of the opening of the 2017 legislative session, it was disclosed that Cook joined nine other state legislators calling on the federal government to shut down the $400 million nearly ready to go online Amazon wind energy farm in the two counties. 

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