Did he say grills?
Yeah, I did. From today’s Inside Scoop column:
Last week's tussle over the minimum wage, during which some senators tried to add a provision that would have exempted anyone under 20 from the state minimum, created some of the most openly tense moments Scoop has seen around the legislature.In fact, after a particularly contentious Senate Commerce Committee meeting, Rep. Alma Adams and Sen. Kay Hagan, both Greensboro Democrats, were -- for lack of a better description -- right up in each other's grills.
Thanks to some handy audio work by a radio reporter, Scoop confirmed that he had heard Adams say the following to Hagan:
"That's what they said, and that's what you heard, so why didn't you ask the damned question?"Hagan was explaining that she didn't know the new Senate version of the bill went as far as it did.
That wasn't really the good bit from the aftermath of that meeting, but Scoop can't print the good bit in a family newspaper.
When asked about the tete-a-tete Monday, both women said things were tense but all is now forgiven.
"I felt disrespected, I felt offended," Adams said. "I was not pleased with the Senate's actions."
Hagan said she understood why Adams was upset at the time.
"She was upset and she had a right to be," Hagan said. "I don't think that meeting was handled appropriately in that there was a lot of confusion."