Jeffus on Wright
Rep. Maggie Jeffus, a Greensboro Democrat, has sat in the seat next to Wright for at least two sessions, and probably a few more than that - she couldn't remember. As such, she had the strangest seat in the House, next to Wright and his lawyers but forced to sit in judgment.
"It was very difficult to do this to a colleague, and a friend and seatmate, yet looking at what we looked at in the book and what we'd heard, I felt like I had not choice to do that," Jeffus said.
She did vote for Jones' censure motion, which would have over-rode the expulsion motion.
"I felt like we might give that a chance and see. In my own mind I think censure and expulsion are both very serious and in the end would have the same kind of result," she said.
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