No surprise: Guilford GOP Hopes Rides Jim Black controversy
Guilford County Republican Party Chairman Marcus Kindley and the county’s four GOP state House candidates in contested elections held a presser Friday. As expected, they called for House Speaker Jim Black to step down because of the nearly year-long string of ethics-related stories about his campaign fund raising practices.
By inference, and later pretty explicitly, the Republicans were making the case that voters should elect them because, well, they’re not of the party connected to Jim Black.
That's no surprise. It's a reflection of a the state party's plans and, in a political sense, a logical line of attack.
After the presser, I asked Kindley to elaborate on that idea. And I had my handy-dandy minidisk recorder with me:
- Click here for Kindley’s response to being asked whether Jim Black can be the only issue for local Republicans this fall.
- Click here for Kindley’s response to the question: what’s to stop Republicans from doing exactly what they are complaining about in relation to Black.
And read tomorrows paper for a short story on this.
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