Strap down that load
Jim Rumley’s cell phone was blowing up (that’s what the kids say when it rings a lot, repeatedly) on Tuesday during an editorial board interview for District 59 in the North Carolina General Assembly.
For the record, Scoop doesn’t get involved in that editorial stuff, that’s not our bag. But we like to see candidates under the gun of an hour of questions.
So as Rumley is about to launch into his philosophy on recruiting industry and incentives, his phone rings for the third time in a row.
“It’s my wife,” he said, adding that she doesn’t typically call repeatedly like that, and then he stepped out of the room.
Incumbent Rep. Maggie Jeffus picked up the question and the interview went on, and Rumley eventually came back after a few moments.
Turns out that Rumley’s son has a friend who was using one of Rumley’s trailers to move furniture and got into an accident.
“Well, he lost something off the back of the trailer,” Rumley said.
Nobody was hurt, but we hope that there wasn’t a dinged recliner as a result. The recliner in the Scoop lounge (OK, cave) still has an arm wrapped in duct tape from the last tumble it faced.
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