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You may remember the tiff between Cary Allred and Howard Coble from a few weeks back. The summary: Allred wants a federal tax law that he sees as unfair to state legislators changed, Coble hasn't gotten on the stick, Allred calls him an a**hole.

Well, Allred further explains himself in a letter to the editor today, and of course he blames Scoop for causing problems:

I simply do not like the fact that he is not being aggressive with this particular issue, which is an obvious contradiction to the 14th Amendment. It is unconstitutional because it does not provide equal protection under the law and instead serves to disproportionately benefit U.S. congressmen.

If you had pointed out in the "Scoop" that my beef is that he only has to pay 15 percent and other local and state politicians have to pay 35 percent, then people would have understood this situation better.

Rep. Coble's response regarding this issue was inadequate. He does not have to be a member of the Ways and Means Committee to introduce a bill, nor does he have to be on the committee to make things right or at least express such a stance through the introduction of a bill.

All I have received out of his office are insufficient excuses.

(Read the whole letter.)

He goes on to call Coble "ineffective" and writes "this is not a personality issue. I'm not running against him, but the little people and the little businesses deserve more aggressive representation."

And yes, Allred like Coble is a Republican and says "I happen to like Rep. Coble." Scoop hopes he never takes this kind of liking to us.