Speaker Jim Black adds a little backspin to his account regarding former aide Meredith Norris, the lottery, and everything:

Black said Scientific Games did not hire Norris “until the lottery was passed in the House.”

That’s not what a Scientific Games vice president, Alan Middleton, told The News & Observer in an interview in September. Middleton said he hired Norris in January, just as the legislative session began, and two months before the House took up the lottery.

Black’s press secretary, Julie Robinson, said Black might have misspoken about Norris’ hiring.

“I don’t think he knows the specific details of when she was hired or what she was doing,” Robinson said Tuesday.

Black also said in the radio interview that he will seek a record fifth term as House speaker if he is re-elected next year.

The relevant part here is if he is re-elected next year.