From the ?you can’t make this stuff up? department, former Durham city council member Floyd McKissick is one of several Democrats who would like to be appointed to the NC Senate seat left vacant by Wib Gulley’s decision to resign and join the staff of the Triangle Transit Authority.

The procedure is that local Democrats in the district will select someone to serve out the remainder of the term. They now have a six-person committee formed to make that determination ? and McKissock is one of those six members.

How did he get on the panel? At a county party meeting, McKissock simply voted for himself, and his vote counted for a lot because he is the chairman of one of the largest Democratic precincts in the county and the outcome was based on proportional representation. And, yes, he says that he plans to vote for himself again, on the committee, to replace Gulley.

Here’s the fun part: the name of the precinct he chairs is ?The Crown of Righteousness.?