Source: Matthew Burns, WRAL, 12/15/16

While a shift in administrations may be a motivation for a legislative effort to strip power from incoming Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, a top lawmaker said Thursday that the move has been in the works for almost a year because of a dispute with outgoing Republican Gov. Pat McCrory. McCrory fought the lawmakers over appointments to the Coal Ash Management Commission and two other state panels, saying the General Assembly was exerting too much control over groups that carried out executive branch functions. 

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