Caucus update
From today's Inside Scoop column:
Regular readers will remember that for the past couple of months, Scoop asked Rep. Alma Adams about when she might have an update on the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus Foundation. That's the nonprofit tied to a politically powerful group of General Assembly members, the Legislative Black Caucus.When we checked back Monday, Adams told Scoop the auditor the group has hired has been slow on the draw, so now she expects to have something to say "by the end of the year." She said the tardy audit has "put me in a difficult spot."
The Greensboro Democrat took over leadership of the caucus and its foundation this year and, by her own account, has been "Miss Fix It."
A central question: Should a group tied to legislators raise money for its purposes when legislators are prohibited from taking campaign contributions?
Besides a private audit, the group is waiting on rulings from state ethics watchdogs still to be drafted, Adams said.
She did address one point that had been controversial this year.
"The foundation board will be passing a policy that it will not allow any board member or legislator or their family members ... to receive a scholarship," Adams said.
Previously and more so.