Speaker in the Black
Democrat House Speaker Jim Black has been under scrutiny for a litany of actions regarding fund-raising, PAC contributions, video poker owners and their potentially excessive contributions. The state GOP's website has some great information if you want to follow some of the highlights. Click here for that.
A couple of my favorites here for you.
This one from the Editor at NCRumors.com. It has to do with Democrat Jim Black, an optometrist, attempting to pass a law to make eye exams for NC children entering school mandatory. "Democrat House Speaker Jim Black, a Charlotte optometrist, denies the provision was inserted into the budget in order to benefit his fellow optometrists and asserts it was Democrat Governor Mike Easley’s idea. The Governor’s Office denies such a suggestion."
Fun to see the posturing there. Now, these next two left me irate. It was gleaned from the GOP's website, linked above, on Jim Black's "reign."
"One toxic example: After state inspectors fined his son's pest control business in 2000, the Honorables eliminated the jobs of four inspectors."
"Two years later, a Black aide faxed Black's son that, "We are going to see if Sen. (Marc) Basnight will agree to add another person to the Structural Pest Control Board so that we can put both of your nominees on the board." The Honorables did, but Gov. Mike Easley vetoed the bill."
Remind me to post my picture of a few us in Raleigh, circa 2000, protesting tax hikes, a trip made with Charlotte's WBT personalities. It has a few of us with my hand-made sign that says, "Save us from the Black Plague!" By now, we are all infected, if you get my drift.
A couple of my favorites here for you.
This one from the Editor at NCRumors.com. It has to do with Democrat Jim Black, an optometrist, attempting to pass a law to make eye exams for NC children entering school mandatory. "Democrat House Speaker Jim Black, a Charlotte optometrist, denies the provision was inserted into the budget in order to benefit his fellow optometrists and asserts it was Democrat Governor Mike Easley’s idea. The Governor’s Office denies such a suggestion."
Fun to see the posturing there. Now, these next two left me irate. It was gleaned from the GOP's website, linked above, on Jim Black's "reign."
"One toxic example: After state inspectors fined his son's pest control business in 2000, the Honorables eliminated the jobs of four inspectors."
"Two years later, a Black aide faxed Black's son that, "We are going to see if Sen. (Marc) Basnight will agree to add another person to the Structural Pest Control Board so that we can put both of your nominees on the board." The Honorables did, but Gov. Mike Easley vetoed the bill."
Remind me to post my picture of a few us in Raleigh, circa 2000, protesting tax hikes, a trip made with Charlotte's WBT personalities. It has a few of us with my hand-made sign that says, "Save us from the Black Plague!" By now, we are all infected, if you get my drift.
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