…and when did she know it?

The N.C. Legislative Black Caucus claims it is ready to meet the new year with a clean set of books. Except that the audits of the group for 2005 and 2006 — audits that evidently were strongly encouraged if not ordered by a still-secret N.C. Ethics Commission ruling — are themselves still secret. State Rep. Beverly Earle (D-Meck.) was the chair of the group during that time period — a time when more money was spent on parties than scholarships, and what money that was spent on education was after steered toward the relatives of lawmakers, like Earle’s kin.

Current chair state Rep. Alma Adams (D) is basically asking the state just to take her word for it that all the money is accounted for and was used properly.

Why of course. It is not like we have a former Speaker of the House sitting in a federal pen or anything.

I can already feel it — 2008 is shaping up as the year of the non-scandal. We will get absolutely no digging on the ongoing criminal conspiracy that passes for state — and local? — government unless we do it ourselves.