Arguably the greatest crisis facing North Carolina today is the rampant corruption in its political leadership. Today, as The News & Observer reports, the General Assembly announced it has finished its work and is going home. You see, while the gerrymandated elected officials have since January excreted piles of pap and crap — much of which has been chronicled in this space — there just wasn’t any time to tidy up the state capitol:
A slate of government reform bills that gained attention amid
controversies surrounding former Gov. Mike Easley will not be taken up
as lawmakers push to end this year’s work. That’s according to a
leading senator whose committee is handling the bills.Sen. Martin
Nesbitt, a Democrat from Asheville, and other legislators said there is
support to make changes. But they said there is not enough time to
finish them before legislators adjourn for this year.“We’ll do them next year,” Nesbitt said. “There is no attempt to kill them by omission.”
The
bills, all of which passed the House and sit in a committee led by
Nesbitt, would have brought more accountability and transparency in
ethics and lobbying in state government, according to reform advocates
who pushed the measures.
And this:
Sen. Josh Stein, a Wake County Democrat who was handling one of the
bills, said there is broad support. But he said lawmakers are focused
on adjournment.“The clock has just run out,” he said.
“Broad support,” huh? Seems it would have been easy to pass then. Amazing how lying is so easy for these people.
Un-da-un-da-un-da-un-da…
