On cue — and in the words of UNC alum Stuart Scott — Boo-Yah!

A blast to the Jim Black claim that he did not really violate North Carolina law by accepting blank-check donations. A Wake County Superior court judge has just ruled that Black must return $6,800 he received in blank-check donations from fellow optometrists.

This upholds what the State Board of Elections found on the blank-check issue, a ruling that Black’s legal camp had repeatedly attacked in recent months.

Is this the beginning of the end of crony politics in North Carolina? No. No.

Not by a long shot.

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The end?