I suspected in an earlier Locker Room posting that Rep. Ronnie Sutton of Robeson would be my hero only for the weekend, and I was right. Not because of anything Sutton did, mind you ? I still love his revealing take on the death-penalty moratorium. I?ve just got a short attention span. Today?s quote is a pithy one about North Carolina?s lurch into the targeted tax-incentive game and the fundamental economic mistake that lurks underneath:

?It doesn’t make sense to me [for the government] to pick winners and losers.?

That?s Rep. Alice Bordsen, a freshman Democrat from Alamance County who voted against the incentive-bill montrosity during last fall?s special session.

Please send all nominations for future ?heroes of the day? to my e-mail address.