Money in NC Politics

The investigation continues into the finances of Jim Black, king lord sovereign leader speaker of the NC House, and titular head of the Democrat Party in North Carolina. This is a separate investigation by the state board of elections (D) -- not the same as the federal investigation.

Don't look for much to come out of this investigation. The state board of elections is very strongly partisan -- it consists of very loyal Democrats appointed to the board by the governor. In order for them to find any evidence of wrongdoing, there's going to have to be actual photographs of people committing murder.

Now, do you see anything wrong with this:

A parade of N.C. optometrists testified Wednesday that they gave political donations without knowing who got them -- and acknowledged that some appeared to end up in the personal bank accounts of former Rep. Mike Decker and at least two other lawmakers.

Jim Black doesn't:

Mr. Black just "reached out and asked his supporters to support the new member of his team."

Of course, the idea that this is completely illegal doesn't seem to matter to anyone involved:

N.C. law says it's illegal for anyone to solicit donations "without first clearly advising those solicited ... (t)he name of the candidate(s) for whom the contribution will be used; or the name of the political committee or party for which the funds will be used."

So, on the very first day of hearings, we have absolute, confirmed evidence that Jim Black and his "team" very clearly broke election law. There is absolutely no doubt that the laws were broken here.

But, as I mentioned at the start of this post, the board of elections is appointed by the governor and expected to do his bidding. I will be surprised if anyone, especially Jim Black, is actually held accountable. Look for more "integrity rules" to be proposed by Black in the House.

Oh, and they might slap Mike Decker (Turncoat Party) with a small fine, just so they have a fall guy -- and he runs on the Republican ticket, so if they fine him, the Democrats can run around saying it's the Republicans who are corrupt. For those who don't know Mike Decker, he won election as a Republican, but once elected changed his affiliation to Democrat in exchange for cash bribes from Black, but then changed back to Republican when election time came around again.

Go ahead, try and convince me NC state-level politics aren't the filthiest in the country.

Posted by: Ogre at 01:06 PM

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