Black Caucus on Wright
The N.C. Legislative Black Caucus is at odds with Speaker Hackney's call for Rep. Thomas Wright to resign. From a news release:
Yesterday's call for Representative Thomas Wright to resign was premature. The North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus urges the House Leadership and our other Colleagues to allow the appropriate processes to run their course, rather than rushing to judgment.Failing to do so does not afford Representative Wright due process, and the same rights afforded others under the basic tenets of our constitution. Representative Wright deserves to less fairness and due process than others have been entitled to and received.
Click here to read the whole thing. (Wait, that was the whole thing. But the link gets you the gussied up version with the seal on it.)
Update: My colleague Laura Leslie is just back from the governor's press conference on Hurricanes, and just played some interesting tape for me.
It appears Gov. Mike Easley disagrees with the Black Caucus.
"I think Speaker Hackney was right and correct and in the best position to know whether Rep. Wright should resign," Easley said. He cited "documentary evidence" that something possible illegal has gone on.
"It seems to me there's going to be no good endgame for Rep. Wright," Easley said.
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